THE BUCK-NAKED BIGOTRY OF TED RALL
Ted “Bottom-feeder” Rall is at it again. His latest crude-toon includes a frame depicting Condoleezza Rice proclaiming herself Bush’s “HOUSE NIGGA.” A black man demands that Rice “HAND OVER HER HAIR STRAIGHTENER.” His t-shirt reads “YOU’RE NOT WHITE, STUPID.” The caption below the frame reads “SENT TO INNER-CITY RACIAL RE-EDUCATION CAMP.”
I am not going to call for a boycott of Rall’s work. No. I want Universal Press Syndicate and the Washington Post and all his other “mainstream” media outlets to keep publishing his pathetic scrawls and scribbles.
Ted Rall, you see, is a very useful idiot. Whereas most on the Left attempt to conceal their liberal racism in the drapery of “diversity” and “multiculturalism,” Ted Rall is an ideological streaker. His impulsive naked bigotry is so butt-ugly, you can’t help but gawk. It is raw and it is real and it is, quite helpfully, all hanging out there for the world to see.
Show us more of your assininity, Ted. Keep dropping your rhetorical pants. Which other minority public figures do you want to mock for having straightened hair? Colin Powell’s wife? Beyonce? Coretta Scott King? Which other independent-thinking, unorthodox minorities do you want to defame for not thinking “white” enough? You wanna send Bill Cosby to “racial re-education camp,” too, huh? Which other minority conservatives are you just itching to tar as “HOUSE NIGGAS” or “HOUSE CHINKS” or “HOUSE SPICS?”
(It’s also valuable, by the way, to see Rall’s mainstream media clients such as the Washington Post continue to stand by him…while at the same time, moan about the lack of civility in public discourse.)
Rall is not the far Left fringe. He gets away with this pen-and-ink-stained excrement because he reflects the closet thinking of mainstream media editors across the country and their mainstream liberal audiences. His work is reportedly carried in 140 newspapers. He and his ilk are everywhere. I grew up with his kind. I went to school with his kind. I work in the media with his kind. I have been getting contempt-filled, profanity-laced, “You-are-a-traitor-to-your-race/You banana/coconut/Aunt Tomasina/white wannabe” diatribes from his kind in my mailbox for the past 12 years.
I’m just glad to see Rall’s kind crawling out from under their rocks and exposing themselves to sunlight. Bask in the glow, miscreants. Ain’t 21st century liberal bigotry liberating? It’s soooo much easier to breathe without those hoods.
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A special request for you enterprising graphic designers/creative types: How about designing “TED RALL THINKS I’M A HOUSE NIGGA,” “TED RALL THINKS I’M A HOUSE CHINK,” and “TED RALL THINK’S I’M A HOUSE (BANANA/COCONUT/SPIC/FILL-IN-THE-RACIAL-EPITHET) etc., t-shirts? I would also love to see an “I’M NOT ‘WHITE’…I’M RIGHT” t-shirt for all of us minority conservatives who have been Rall-ed by leftist bigots.
If you get something up for sale quick at CafePress or the like (doesn’t need to be fancy, just the plain text slogan would be fine), let me know and I’ll buy ‘em, I’ll wear ‘em, and I’ll plug ‘em.
UPDATE: Wow! My peeps work fast! Rachel Jurado, who blogs at Banana Republican, has launched the “Uncle Tom’s Outreach Initiative” at CafePress with a few of the suggested t-shirts and some of her own original work. (I’m going with the cute pink “I’m not ‘White.’ I’m RIGHT” shirt and one of those “Self-loathing race traitor”” cotton t’s. Also gonna do some early Christmas shopping and snatch up some of those ash-gray “RALL THINKS I’M A HOUSE NIGGA” t’s!)
UPDATE: These aren’t for sale (too bad!), but Allahpundit has designed some great Rall-wear, too.
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Leftists like Rall are immune from all charges of bigotry and racism because they are “moral” according to the left’s twiested code. The same rule holds for “oppressed groups” who excercise bigotry against other groups. The EU’s spiking of the ani-Semitism report (because the anti-Semitism comes largely from Muslim immigrants) is yet another example.
The invective directed at minority conservatives is very telling. The message is clear: don’t stray from Massa Liberal’s Plantation - or else. The attempted hi-tech lynching of Clarence Thomas opened my eyes about leftists and what their real agenda is - destroying America.
You see, this irks me to absolutely no end.
I am a 26 year-old African-American, and I’ve been talking about this to others and on my blog for quite a while now. White leftists have loosely been allowed to use bigoted connotations to describe Gen. Powell and Dr. Rice.
I remember about a week after Abu Ghraib broke, and Greg Palast was on Dennis Miller’s show on the discussion panel, and that lowlife made a joke about even more controversy brewing when pictures surface of George Bush leading Powell around with a leash. Asshole.
I wish a white leftist WOULD come up to me and make some derogatory comment like that. I’d knock him on his ass.
Michell - After making note of your articles for some time now, I just found your blog. Keep up the great work. You are right on the money.
I find it very telling that Rall selected Limbaugh instead of Ashcroft.
It must be Ted’s idea of “payback” for when Limbaugh tore Ted a new one on his radio show. I guess he’s still learning to draw Hannity’s hair.
Just when I think Ted can go no lower, he digs a hole. What a sick little man he is.
How DARE you enable the comments you cheap ann coulter commie fur hat wearing substitue? What’s the matter? FOX couldn’t find ann because she was too doped up on crack? You are a democratic house nigger, shilling for the democratic party with your relentless niggerism of assuming republicans are not filthy commies. REPUBLICANS have been cmplicit in 70% AVERAGE tax rates on the rich this century. YOU LOVE COMMIES.
Wow! You left my monitor smoking!
Keep it up!
Michelle,
You’ve become my “must read first” commentator with articles like this on this Rall vermin. Keep turning up the heat gal. Love your blog!
Speaking for all leftists, I must congratulate Carolus for fingering the lot of us in our conspiracy to destroy America.
Shucks, I might as well tell everybody to throw in the towel at the next ACLU meeting. It’s a shame, though, because we were going to hand out abortion coupons this week after sacrificing a virgin, parochial schoolgirl to Ted Kennedy.
Heil Franken!
Noah
I saw Rall interviewed just after he wrote some remarkably tasteless cartoon about Pat Tillman. He struck me as “socially bullet proof”. Of those I see most often on televsion he reminds of Scott Peterson, something is just clearly not right.
I wonder about those who choose print his work…..
Say one thing about Ted, he’s helpful. I mean, it’s really nice of him to put labels in the top of each frame in his cartoon, since his artwork sucks so badly that I couldn’t otherwise tell who he was supposed to be drawing.
Michelle- I am so glad to see your blog and to see you write about this creep, Rall. I don’t get to see his cartoon in the local media but am surprised that the St. Louis Post Dispatch does not carry it. Rall is another of those so very hateful libs. Is there anything that would make them happy?… I doubt it.
If you’re not familiar with VDare, know in brief that it’s a de facto white supremacist organ listed as a hate site by the Southern Poverty Law Center — Michelle Malkin,is apparently affiliated with this loathesome organization.
http://vdare.com/
Mrs. Malkin,
This is one of your best blogs. I read a column the other day in my local paper by Rall that was stunning for its lack of competency. Clearly this guy is not a writer.
The crux of his argument? That even though Michael Moore lies in his film, Republicans tell bigger lies. Therefore it’s ok.
That is childish thinking. That is left-wing thinking.
I’ve always told my friends that the Left was a racist and elitist, and nobody ever believed me. I’m sending Rall’s galling cartoon and your fine comments to all of them.
RE: Noah’s comment–
Actually, from what I’ve seen of the Democratic party’s behavior lately, none of the scenarios he describes would surprise me in the least. Hysteria has obviously set in.
Michelle,
As usual, great job on exposing Rall! I’m so proud to have you on our side fighting for common decency and the goodness of America.
Keep up the great work and never let filth like Rall and his kind get you down.
The most important point Michelle makes is we should not shut guys like Rall up. We want the public to know *exactly* what they are thinking and planning.
Every time a conservative criticizes someone on the left, we are accused of censorship. Recall Tim Robbins at the Press Club, “… a chill wind…”
As Dick Morris puts it, every time Hillary opens her mouth, her popularity plummets. We need for the left to tell us everything they think and believe.
Don’t let them hide behind mindless talking-points. Make them state their case. The more American’s know what Kerry and Edwards really think, the better off we all are.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: Ted Rall is as correct and funny as he is talented. Sheesh, I could draw a better cartoon by putting a pencil in my ear (pointed end out, naturally) and banging my head against the desk.
You’re right though, Michelle. We need to keep Rall and reprobates like him around so that we have an example of real hatemongering to point to whenever we as conservatives are accused of it.
If the “Southern Poverty Law Center” says that, it’s gotta be true!!! After all, Leftists never lie about things like that.
Michelle Malkin is apparently affiliated with this loathesome organization.
http://vdare.com/malkin/index.htm
fiona-
If you consider Ted Rall’s comic strip as emblematic of all leftist attitudes, then you’re just being intellectually lazy. I don’t want, nor should I have, to be accountable for every idea that Ted Rall espouses.
That’s the tricky part about such generalizations, one that makes them too clumsy and stupid for productive discourse.
Of course, I could just paint all conservatives as homophobes because Rick Santorum called homosexual acts a threat to society and families. After all, he is a political celebrity, so he must at least be representative of everyone in his party! Man, I could have spared everyone so many superfluous sentences if I’d just realized that I could call you bigots and be done with it!
Bigots, all of you!
Noah -
I understand your frustration with all Democrats being painted with the same brush. I think that’s wrong too. That said, until the mainstream Democratic Party steps forward and repudiates the vitriolic and senseless hate-mongering from the likes of Moore and Rall, it will continue.
I agree, Michelle… if this is the best the left can do, “Bring it on!”
His artistic skills remind me of nothing so much as the scribblings of a junior-high loner, scratched out on notebook paper and passed around the study hall to the sound of muffled giggles. His political reasoning is not much more advanced. He spews hateful and slanderous epithets toward anyone to the right of Fidel Castro.
And yet, just yesterday, John Edwards said it is time to put an end to the politics of hate and character assasination - maybe this is what he meant… but I doubt it.
So Noah:
You are most definitely not accountable for every lame arsed idea that tumbles out of ted rall’s tiny head…. but for the record, what was your opinion of his latest crap in which he calls Condi Rice that special N word, and engages in racial stereotyping (hair straightener, nice) on a level with Amos n’ Andy or Al Jolson? I’m surprised he left out the panel showing Condi lovin’ her some watermelon and chitlin’s.
To generalize, it’s my opinion that the left is very keen on banning hate speech- what are your thoughts about marching or protesting the obvious inflammatory hate speech that Rall uses to denigrate a proud and independent Black woman? Careful now, the hypocrisy police are watching……
For the same reason I think Michael Moore’s “mockumentary” was a good thing for conservatives, so is Ted Rall. You just can’t buy the kind of good publicity that comes with trying to mainstream the kooks on the far left.
You do not have to agree with the politics of Condeleezza Rice or Clarence Thomas to have respect for the positions they have been able to attain. I probably disagree with Charles Rangell on any issue of importance, but I have respect for him as a US Congressman.
The Ted Rall’s of the world just can’t live with the fact that the three most powerful black people in this country are conservative.
Noah:
It’s as Hogarth said. Until the mainstream of liberalism publicly rejects Ted Rall, it shall be seen as tacitly approving of his message. If you don’t want to be accountable for every idea that Rall espouses, then do your damndest to ensure that his poisonous views are not seen as being within the mainstream of your ideology.
First to Michelle, what a great blog. Rall is an idiot and should be exposed for the lying, bigoted, no talent cartoonist he is. In regards to earl’s post, it appears that Michelle’s association with that group is the same as any web author who happens to have their writings linked to by any number of groups. By earl’s rationale, Hugh Hewitt, Powerline and Instapundit would be considered closet liberals since they link Peter Bienart, TNR and associated other blogs icluding Josh Marshall. Chill out, earl!
Ha! Hilarious Ted Rall, at least someone has the guts to poke fun publicly at these lying, killing, banana republic level currency inflating, big government loving, deficit spending debt mongers!
I don’t have Trackback support, but more can be found at: http://nonboxthinking.blogspot.com/2004/07/never-censor-left.html
All this time I thought Ted Rall was white, but aparently he is blacker than Condi Rice, Colin Powel, and all the other Non Liberal african americans.
I find Rall quite tiresome and predictable; he consistently attempts to shock, but merely annoys. Much like the troll Noah, above, and his courageous friend, anon.
The truly witty take on Rall is, as always, at the indispensable protein wisdom:
http://www.celluloid-wisdom.com/pw/archives/003538.html
http://www.celluloid-wisdom.com/pw/archives/003364.html
http://www.celluloid-wisdom.com/pw/archives/003065.html
Now I know Michelle Malkin did NOT say “peeps”.
I’m mad at that.
Anyways, I posted this on my blog at http://expertise.blogdrive.com and I gave Steve Malzburg from WABC get a heads up about it this morning. I wonder if this will become a big story. It definitely should.
Michelle
Sorry I’m not up to speed on the latest racial epithets. Just wondering, what kind of person is an “Aunt Tomasina”? Even working in the highly diverse IT field I haven’t come across that one. Come to think of it, I haven’t heard any of these terms in decades.
“Pen-and-ink-stained excretement?” I can’t think of a better description for Rall’s filthly poison. If you keep talking truth like that two things are going to happen. 1. The media’s double standard will not be able to hold up much longer. 2. I may have to ask if you’re married or not!
Drew,
It is the female form of the “Uncle Tom”. Tom…Tomasina…
Joe,
You forgot the best one:
http://www.celluloid-wisdom.com/pw/archives/003025.html
When I was a boy and then a teenager it was Democrats ’standing in the schoolhouse door’ to prevent minority children from getting into the better schools.
Now that I’m old enough to qualify for AARP membership it is Democrats standing in the schoolhouse doors to prevent minority children from escaping the public schools.
Nothing has changed except the rhetoric. The Dems were the pro-slavery party in the 1800s, the party of the Klu Klux Klan in the first half of the 20th Century and in the dawn of a new millenia are still the Party of keeping minorities in ‘their place’.
They say that conservatives respect tradition but there are few American traditions older than the racism of the Democratic Party.
I’m furious.
I’m beside myself.
I have to endure being called Uncle Tom and Oreo and other such things on an ongoing basis. I have to live with and through my family and friends being desirous of having my head examined for being conservative day in and day out. I have to listen to moonbats invade my blog and insist that I’m an “unwitting tool” of conservatives (after, since I’m black, I couldn’t ever have an ORIGINAL thought of my own!).
Now I’m supposed to sit still while white trash idiots who draw worse than my two year-old insult not only my intelligence, but my race as well?
Notice the crickets coming from the Soul Patrol? They wouldn’t dare attack one of their own.
I guess it’s supposed to be OK, since Rall is calling a black conservative that vile name.
I get upset when I hear blacks use that term; I’m supposed to sit still when idiots like Rall use it? When did he get a pass to be offensive? And when did the Universal Press and the 140 newspapers that run Rall’s excuse for a column get a pass to use the term?
Michelle, if there’s any list you are spearheading, any sort of extra means you have at your disposal that I can add my name to, please allow me to do so.
I’m beyond and beside myself with anger over this thing!
Amazing that the left fails to see that their use of the term “race traitors” puts them in the same camp as the KKK and the Nazi’s.
Republicans are racists…come on, everyone knows that. We chose an elephant as the symbol because it was the only animal big enough for both the American and Confederate flags. And the NASCAR bumper sticker. We only have minorities in the party to use as tokens. Besides, we all know that Karl Rove is doing both Colin and Condi’s jobs for them. No way in hell a black person could be capable of that level of responsibility. How could they, our suppressive bonds keep them securely away from any and all achievement.
Just one question. Have you seen the top end of the Democratic Party lately? They could at least go to the beach once in a while. Or at least a tanning booth.
For one thing, I don’t really pay much mind to what’s viewed as “mainstream” in my ideology aside from my particular views. I stressed holding Ted Rall, rather than all those whom you perceive as liberals, as culpable because unless you’re working within the framework of an official political platform, its only fair to make judgments on the individual level.
I don’t think the left is “keen on banning hate speech,” at least not uniformly. Take the aforementioned ACLU, for instance. It defends hate groups’ right to free speech.
As for Rall’s strip, Idler, I think it’s important to view it in its intended humorous context, whether you actually find it funny or not. His use of “the N word,” while not tantamount to the more commonly reviled, plain usage of it, isn’t something I condone on its face, but it is defensible if you look at it from a particular angle that I don’t think anyone’s considered yet. Is it so unreasonable to think that Rall isn’t simply calling Condoleeza Rice an epithet, but rather portraying how he feels she was viewed by the President? If that’s the case, he ought to only be criticized for presumptuousness about the President’s attitudes about race.
Rall’s comic strip is still art, good or bad, and therefore it might be less transparent than an expository essay. I’m not taking a position on what Rall meant by that particular panel, as it was NOT unambiguous. Given my uncertainty, I can’t say I’ve sufficient grounds to march or protest against the man.
Hogarth: Even if the Democrats just condemn Rall and Moore, they will persist, along with others like them or worse, in your view. Thus, it’s pointless, and I also feel it’s not very worthwhile. It doesn’t contribute to dialogue, but reinforces the mindset that just because a large entity, regardless of its rationale, denounces someone, its condemnation is credible. That doesn’t seem very conducive to independent thinking.
Joe: I’d rather be a troll than a dittohead. That’s really quite tiresome. Quite.
I don’t have much to add, just bravo for stating what is completely obvious.
It is absolutely disgusting the way that the mainstream media is blind to it’s own bigotry. I have given up watching anything other than FOX News (Chris Matthews’ show being the only exception) because most of what is on the air and in the print rags today is just propoganda.
If Ted Rall were a conservative and made such statements through his cartoon, then the outcry for his head on a platter would be deafening. Yet, since he is a liberal he gets off scott free for committing such heinous acts of bigotry and racism. I wouldn’t call for a boycott either. I would call for him to be fired. However, you are correct in wanting to keep him on the job because it will further prove the point to those of us who are not foaming at the mouth leftists.
Thank you for voicing what so many of us have felt for so long.
I love your blog and it is a daily must-read for me. Keep up the great work!
Well, boy, howdy, and welcome to the party, Michelle.
We on the right side of Blogdom have been calling this idiot out for months. The establishment left has been silent as you’d expect.
We’re glad to have you on board… and you’re one of my constant reads… But do us a favor… put this reaction on Rall’s bigotry not just on your blog, but in your print column. Syndicate this stuff. This guy is mainstream Democrat… the kind of person who supports Kerry…and needs to be identified as such, on as wide a basis as possible.
We know that identification will hurt Kerry because Kerry doesn’t have the testicular fortitude to run away from Rall and merry Marxists for fear of losing the Democrat Base.
And that’s what Rall represents; the Democrat Base in all it’s uglyness.
Oh?
You think not?
Let’s see some Democrats denounce this idiot.
I await a reaction which will doubtless be a silence of monsterous proportions.
I find it comical that on the one hand numerous groups are always complaining that minorities never achieve real positions of stature. There are not enough miniroties in politics, not enough in coaching, not enough in corporate America.
And yet, when a person does achieve that success, like Dr. Rice, Mr. Powell, Dr. Cosby, they are attacked for discrediting their race.
And who is not detrimental to their cause? Who achieves success without poorly portraying their roots? R Kelly? Lucacris? O.J.?
Is that the carrot that is hung out for minority youth? Become a gangsta-rappa and you’re a hero, become the Secretary of State of the most powerful country in the world and you are a traitor to your people?
I would vote for a Powell/Rice ticket over Kerry-Heinz/Edwards in this election if those were the choices. And would vote Burt/Ernie over anything with Hitlary’s name on it.
Rall’s observations are dead on and are not racist or bigoted in any way imaginable. Anyone who saw Rice testify became painfully aware of the fact that she is wholly out of her element.
I also challenge Michelle to post those e-mails.
When justified anger and perceptive intelligence collide, it is a truly beatiful thing. Thank you, Ms. Malkin.
On a hair-splitting point, would, “Right, not White” be a just a tad zippier?
Thank God there are people like you in the media, Ms. Malkin. I think it would be great if you could get some of the major media outlets to run this story. Show America how close-minded and bigoted liberals really are, and not what they claim to be.
Noah,
The problem with your idea that Rall’s comic had an “intended humorous context” (and should be viewed in that light) is that one can always say “I was just joking! Sheesh!”. If it happens once in a great while then people - even mean ol’ conservatives - are prepared to give a tasteless cartoon a pass.
But Rall’s poorly-drawn, hard-to-understand panels have been patently offensive for months on end. They’re sometimes bigoted, often cruel, and never funny. He doesn’t draw to entertain or inform, but only to seethe meaninglessly at those he percieves as his political enemies. Hiding behind the “just kidding” defense is simply ridiculous.
I also disagree that the Democratic Party has nothing to gain by renouncing leftist bigots and liars like Rall and Moore. Early in the War on Terror President Bush went out of his way to put a lot of distance between his administration and the far right-wing nutjobs that were calling for a “new crusade” against Muslims. As a result, nearly every argument about this being a religious war has been totally discredited. Sure he lost some respect from the rightmost 10% of his party but it went a long way towards winning over the center and center-left.
Kerry and Edwards could likewise help themselves by handing jerks like Rall and Moore a civil but powerful rebuke. They won’t though; the mentality of the left at this point is “One political dollar snatched today is better than one hundred honestly invested in the future”. It’s all about gaining momentary political advantage, and the Dems are going to pay for it come election time … they have been paying for it in every election over the past six years, in fact.
I’m a libertarian-minded Democrat who’s going to be voting for Bush in November. Not because I particularly like all of his policies; there are many I disagree with. But he’s forthright, tough-minded, and he knows how to stay the course in war. That stacks up to be head and shoulders above anything the DNC has offered in the past 20 years.
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GsOuPx >Anyone who saw Rice testify became painfully aware of the fact that she is wholly out of her element.
True. An intelligent woman in a room full of imbeciles…
“Rall’s observations are dead on and are not racist or bigoted in any way imaginable.”
Yeah, right. I’m willing to bet that you think that Hitler’s observations on Jews were unfairly maligned as well.
Silly.
Great stuff - just one observation, though:
The statement, “I’m not white, I’m right” can be miscontrued in a negative way. I know you didn’t intend it this way, but the juxtaposition could be taken to implicitly indicate that white people are not right.
Now *I* know what you meant by it, but a lot of people reading that will take it the wrong way…
Words fail me.I thought we had left all this behind in the late 60’s. This reminds me of the pre-voting rights act in the South. If this is their idea of progress, then they would really like those pictures of lynchings. I remember the cross burnings, I am too young for lynchings, just murders. This hate filled stuff is really sad.
He was also quite fond at casting aspersions upon the recently deceased. His cartoon about Pat Tillman and his quote after Ronald Reagan died were worthy of Edward kennedy after a thorough Bushmills soaking.
I happen to disagree that his work should continue. See here:
http://murdertheleft.blogspot.com/
Excellent. I’ll admit I never considered the benefits of Rall continuing to spew his filth so widely. On the other hand (as one or two of your commenters have made obvious) you’re relying on people to be intelligent enough to recognize the bigotry. Yes in this case it’s blatantly obvious, but what if Ted discovers subtlety? Well, that’s probably as likely as him learning how to draw.
Noah, I’m not certain what a “dittohead” is, but I’m glad you recognize that you are indeed a troll.
As for your tortuous tap-dance in defense of Rall’s “humor”, you might consider that some things really aren’t funny in any context; offensive humor especially requires some wit, and some core of truth to carry it off, and both are sadly lacking here. I even provided you with a few samples - too bad you’re more interested in defending the slurs of this pathetic cartoonist than in understanding contrary points of view.
And addison - of course ! How could I have forgotten that one ?
Earl felt compelled by petty eagerness to complain about http://www.VDARE.com. Although off the entire subject posted here, he deserves a response….
“Hate” or “hate organization” - the only term liberals can sputter when they lack any coherent reasoning or argument in a debate.
“Hate” is what liberals label organizations who dare to oppose illegal immigration and the open borders lobby, or suggest that immigration is out of control. VDARE prints excellent, well-reasoned articles from columnists exposing the harm of uncontrolled illegal immigration, among other relevant and thought-provoking topics.
Gee, since the SPLC is such a bastion of tolerance and inclusion, why hasn’t MeCHA or La Raza (the Race) appeared on their “hate” list yet? Until then, the SPLC deserves little more than a snort accomanied by derision.
Calling Rall an outrageous bastard just validates him, since that is what he wants to be.
The correct response is to calmly explain the falseness of his assumptions. If Rall thinks that Rice, Powell or other well placed blacks would sell out just for a place at the foot of a powerful White Massa, he is not very astute.
If it makes you feel any better, most of the 140 newspapers that Rall claims are carrying his strip have dropped him a long time ago. For example, he cites the NY Times, but when I contacted them after the Pat Tillman cartoon they said they hadn’t published any of his work in several years. Ditto with a couple other newspapers who bothered to reply. We did get MSNBC to drop his cartoons though.
Wow, Michelle, I’m amazed you haven’t deleted some of the comments here and blacklisted their senders. Such foulness and bile (hidden behind a veil of pusillanimous anonymity, natch). Still, as I posted in a comment on Damian Penny’s blog, ’sunlight is the best disinfectant’. You’re probably right in giving these modern-day Kluckers enough rope to lynch themselves.
I wonder how you must cope at times, though. I’d probably end up sobbing into my pillow at the end of the day if I got half the level of vicious vituperation directed at me as you do. Rest assured that for every pinhead bigot, left or right, there’s ten of us who think you’re doing a great job!
Interesting how there’s no stigma associated with not being white enough. Have you ever heard anyone accuse Eminem (or Ted Rall, for that matter) of not being white enough?
White people are expected to be adult enough about race to not derive any self esteem from their own race.
Liberals expect no such maturity from non-whites. This is as racist as it gets.
Another T-shirt idea:
“We’re Right. Were not White. Deal with it.”
“Adding color to the right.”
“Thinking with my brain, not my race.”
‘Rall’s observations are dead on and are not racist or bigoted in any way imaginable’
Now there’s some rational thinking - let’s think someone who was provost at Stanford University and is a cabinet level official should be mocked for their hairstyle and called names based on their ethnicity. That observation is ‘right on’. The pathetic thing is that anyone would lower themselves to defend someone elses racist remarks.
Paraphrasing Noah
‘How dare you righties try to taint the left by claiming the left agrees with Ted Rall. Not that there is anything wrong with the ideas of Ted Rall.’
A “dittohead” is someone who likes the Rush Limbaugh show. Contrary to the leftmedia mischaracterization, it does not mean that you *agree* with Rush, just that you like his show.
So, Noah, I’d rather be a dittohead than a troll any day.
And Ted Rall is just pure scum. But men like Tillman defend to the death his right to be a complete [filth].
FREE DIRTY DANNY!
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http://www.speranzastudios.com/freedirtydanny/
Noah said: Even if the Democrats just condemn Rall and Moore, they will persist, along with others like them or worse, in your view. Thus, it’s pointless, and I also feel it’s not very worthwhile. It doesn’t contribute to dialog, but reinforces the mindset that just because a large entity, regardless of its rationale, denounces someone, its condemnation is credible. That doesn’t seem very conducive to independent thinking.
\\ So condemning someone who says unconscionable things is “pointless” and “not very worthwhile” unless you convince them to stop?
So no one should condemn the idiotic rantings of the KKK since they are not going to change?
Should the GOP not have come down on Trent Lott for his remarks?
Should no one confront Robert Byrd for his use of the N-word? Oh wait, bad example . . . he’s a Dem.
How about if INDIVIDUALS within the Dems say that calling Dr. Rice a “house nigga” is offensive? Would that be ok?
How intellectually lazy can you get?
Wouldn’t want Kerry or Edwards to say that THEY disagree with using the term would you, Noah? That would just mean that they are above calling someone names based on their race, right?
Getting worked up over Rall’s overt racism isn’t worth the time it takes to shave the previous-straightened hair off my not-white, conservative pate.
He loves this stuff.
The proper term is “Buck Naked” not “Butt Naked”.
http://home.earthlink.net/~iscope247/scopistdevelopment/id9.html
Rall is still published from time to time in the University of Texas newspaper, _The Daily Texan_.
No sense of decency. None.
Rall’s doodling speaks for itself. Miscreants live and miscreants die, but the real “news” is that supposedly serious newspapers publish that crap! You learn something new everyday… Thanks Michelle.
The poster that was trying to educate all of us on how Rall’s cartoon was just art, was just an attempt to be funny must be following the Michael Moore handbook.
When caught in a lie, an act of complete crude Anti-Americanism, simply say it’s all for a laugh. That’s what Moore does when he is shown to be a liar or has staged something in one of his so called documentaries.
He wants to be treated with seriousness, but will retreat behind, the it’s just a joke canard in a heartbeat.
This has recently been replaced with the Democrats most recent tactic however.
That would be the out and out acceptance that a lot of the statements are lies, but the accusation itself is what matters.
We posted a response to Ted Rall’s horrible cartoon on our black moderate-to-conservative blog.
Folks are upset that Ted Rall gets a pass because he is a (white) liberal, despite his arrogance. Some people have also highlighted his problematic stereotype of what is “authentically black,” (i.e., successful blacks aren’t ‘really’ black) given that almost 80% of blacks don’t even live in the inner city.
Not only are his comments racist, but sexist as well. Dr. Rice is drawn like a man, Rall comments that she “was Bush’s beard.” The “now hand over your hair straightener” is not only commentary that Rall believes that Condi has lost her blackness, but a slam that she has also lost her femaleness. Perpetuating the black shrew stereotype once again!
I just bought your book, and now this. Excellent!
Noah: Re your “virgin sacrifice to Ted Kennedy” idea-
The Left already DID sacrifice a woman to Ted Kennnedy, but last I checked, Mary Jo Kopechne was actually in college and not Catholic school.
Forgot all about her, didn’t you?
Tim: I was following a “handbook” that prescribes measured analysis and well-reasoned conclusions, not alarmism and bluster, and that’s obviously not Michael Moore’s strong suit. I didn’t say that I can confidently ascertain Rall’s intent, so I felt it was better to reserve judgment than flare my e-nostrils and cry, “OMG LEFTIST HYPOCRISY!!!11”
J at TAotB: No, it’s not that the pointlessness and worthlessness of condemnation are in a failure to stop what you’re condemning, but rather that they circumvent dialogue and understanding in favor of angrily shoving the problem in the corner. Except, these days those corner happen to be widely syndicated newspaper columns, comic strips, radio and tv shows, and highly popular documentaries. I disagree with using the term as Rall did, myself, J at TAotB, both because he didn’t clearly justify it and because Rall isn’t exactly in a position of cultural privilege to freely use the term.
Brad: That was a stunning paraphrase!
In no way did I claim agreement with Rall’s sentiments about Condoleeza Rice in this comic strip, but rather I argued against making perceived leftists out to be automatically in agreement with any another leftist. Ted Rall speaks for Ted Rall. I speak for myself.
Joe: No single person is the sole arbiter of what’s funny. Many people find Dennis Miller hilarious, while I think he’s become so leaden with his newfound conservatism that he’s just obnoxious. That doesn’t mean my negative response invalidates everyone else’s positive reaction, and vice versa.
I also never admitted to being a troll, since I’m not one. I didn’t post a comment merely to stir controversy. Mine is a legitimate line of argumentation, and given that this is a political blog, discourse is appropriate. As for what a “dittohead” is…
STLscott: I actually first came to know the term “dittohead” as meaning someone who’s just quick to agree on a common stance, rather than as a loyal Rush listener, so I still use it that way.
sandor: The problem with your own idea is that neither you, nor I can remove ambiguity and nuance from verbal or pictorial communication, so we’ll have to face those sticky “I was just joking! Sheesh!” situations. I don’t find Rall as abhorrent as most of the people here seem to, although I frequently disagree with I see as the message of his strips (I’m more of a Tom Tomorrow man, myself).
Bush initially did refer to the War on Terrorism as a “crusade,” which I think I’d be unfair to call anything but a rhetorical misstep. His advisors quickly moved him away from such reckless language. I would contend, though, that while this isn’t, at least consciously, a religious war, it has equally drastic cultural implications, of which religion is no small part.
DaveP: No, I didn’t forget about the late Ms. Kopechne, but thanks for making sure the Democrats death tally is accurate!
- Noah
As a mix of white guy and Jap, I am among the most beleagured of all peoples. My minority side is CONSTANTLY under vicious attack from my white side! I can’t help but oppress myself! The other day, I was eating sashimi (as us slanty-eyed Nips are wont to do) and suddenly I blurted out “WHERE I COME FROM, WE CALL THAT BAIT, YOU YELLOW BASTARD!” Needless to say, my Japanese side was crushed and its self-esteem completely destroyed. It had to say “chop-chop ah so” and put pee pee in the Coke just to get back to normal!
This sort of thing must stop! Down with my racist white side! Up with my multiculturally-appropriate and culturally superior Japanese side!
“A “dittohead” is someone who likes the Rush Limbaugh show. Contrary to the leftmedia mischaracterization, it does not mean that you *agree* with Rush, just that you like his show.”
Actually, I’ve encountered it being used on people who don’t like or watch the Rush Limbaugh show… even after said person politely explains that he is not a fan of Rush. Repeatedly.
Rather annoying.
Yeah!! You, GO, grrl! Right on, uh.. Michelle, is it (speak into the mic, please)? Yeah! Preach!…
Oh, what’s that?… There’s no backlash from the Black community?…They suspect she’s a sellout, too?…
Oh. Nevermind.
Noah, typical leftist reaction when you can’t win the argument–call everyone a bigot. Rascist works too.
Stoob Too funny LMAO
The amazing thing about white liberal racism is that it is reinforced by the so-called “civil rights” leadership, who would rather have black racists like Ludacris and Fifty Cent be role models for black youth than admit that the three most powerful black Americans are Republicans. Julian Bond, Jesse Jackson, and Kweise Mfume would rather see their “brothers” live in hell than give up an iota of their power and cushy lifestyle. It is so sad to see that the role previously held by the KKK is now be held by the black “leadership.” “Keepin’ the niggas down” is so much more effectively accomplished by blacks than any of these white supremacists could ever do.
Since anyone who actually supported removing the Taliban and Hussein regiemes must be blood thirsty Republican Nazis, can we drop Rall on a safe house in Fallujah?
If we were lucky, he would live and star in the next live from Fallujah special featuring camera work by unbiased Al Jazeera “journalists”.
Noah:
I’ve yet to hear you condemn Rall. That seems to indicate to me that you agree with him.
It’s like the Palestinians who know their neighbor is making bombs to kill Israelis. If they don’t do anything to stop them, then they are allowing it to happen (and thus condoning it.)
You say Rall speaks for Rall and you speak for you. Granted. Now speak to us (as yourself) about Rall’s cartoon, whether or not you find it offensive, and why or why not.
Ted Rall’s gonna sue the lot of you! He’s got his knee on your throat with his witty cartooning! Then you’ll be sorry you Bushie thugs!!! GAAAAAAHHHH!!!!
FREE DIRTY DANNY!!!!
I’m glad Malkin’s returned with the comments.
Rall’s observations are dead on and are not racist or bigoted in any way imaginable.
Yes they are. Referring to her as a “house nigga” is a bigoted statement.
Anyone who saw Rice testify became painfully aware of the fact that she is wholly out of her element.
No, not at all.
If you feel she was out of her element, then say so. If you feel she was out of her element because she is a black woman, you’re a racist.
Joe: I’d rather be a troll than a dittohead. That’s really quite tiresome. Quite.
Being a troll is like being a person who craps on the floor of the bathroom simply because, and then change the subject of any conversation to the “mess in the can”.
I’d much rather be a dittohead.
wow 3 comments in a row. Sorry …
(and I guess blockquote doesnt work here… dangit… gotta use preview)
>>The proper term is “Buck Naked” not “Butt Naked”.
The term is racially insensitive. “butt naked” is more PC (and IMO makes far more sense.)
Chewydog: With respect to my calling anyone a bigot in this comment thread, I think you need to get your sarcasm detector calibrated.
beo: I’ll leave your horrendous analogy alone, but I’m fine with saying that I don’t think that Rall’s joke about Rice was fair. An integral part of equality is the freedom of a person of any ethnicity to adhere to any political principles they like, even if its against the norm. I’m still more bewildered by his use of the term, “house nigga,” though, than I am offended.
Sorry if that isn’t bloodthirsty enough for you, but I tend toward calm reason instead of decapitation when it comes to political speech.
let’s start calling white “male feminist” multicultural majors with dreadlocks traitors to their race.
Ted Rall is a hack cartoonist who tries to deflect attention away from his lack of artistic ability or intellectual acumen by shouting louder, more crudely and more ignorantly than any thinking individual — on the left or right — would ever deem necessary or proper.
If you ask me, he’s a kissing cousin to Michael Moore, who makes sophomoric films grounded on bombast and chicanery rather than any overwhelming desire to tell the truth.
Both of them are really the bastard sons of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Just like their spiritual godfather, they are a couple of backward Midwestern yahoos and fearmongers prone to exhibit bad manners and repugnant, anti-democratic tendencies. The world’s all black-and-white with them, but they’re white, so that entitles them to rant like stark raving lunatics, and summarily put down anyone else who disagrees with their diatribes.
Make no mistake about it. If they prevail in shaping the America of the future, we will no longer be a beacon of hope, a place that protects civil discourse, or a shining city by the sea. It will be more a question of: Which dingy bungalow do you want to occupy in the Cockroach Hotel?
Michelle,
The greatest president of the 20th century (you know, the dude with the glasses on that mountain thingy) once said, “We have no place in this country for hyphenated Americans.”
You’re either an American or Ted Rall.
Pretty simple.
I read through many postings on this blog and was struck by the dominance of name-calling over reasoning or argument. Can any one of you drop the invective and deal with the issues to which Rall’s cartoon pointed? The same with Fahrenheit 911.
“The rich get wordier while the poor are unable to afford the new, longer words, and have to make do with hand-me-down single-syllable slang.” The Bleat
What is this crap with the “NIGGA” ? At least spell it correctly. I would think he is rich enough that he can afford the longer complete version of the word.
Noah: Reread your second posting. I’m reading the word bigots.
BTW, Earl: About the VDARE thing . . . just because they link to her does not mean Michele is associated with them.
If I linked to your website (assuming you had one), would that mean that you are associated with me and my conservative ideals? Or that you are the same liberal you are and have a conservative who linked to your site?
Being a Liberal in America in this time is equivalent to being a member of the National Socialist Party in the late 30’s in Germany. Membership is required in order to move in the elite circles, and avoid ’suspicion’.
In their view, any lie, and almost any act, is permissible, even laudable in the promotion of their ideology.
To modern Libs, those who oppose them are no longer just misguided, they are sub-human; a designation which allows numerous, open-ended ’solutions’.
Rall’s scrawls are reminiscent of the crude Juden slandering posters put up by brownshirts.
Moore’s excretions echo those of Leni Riefenstahl.
Gore spews bombast at weekly rallies for the party faithful that are only missing the Reichstag and ‘Seig Heils’ to complete the setting.
Fascism: Liberalism is thy new name.
Noah, the current preferred epithet for those of us on the right side of the spectrum in “neoncons” and not “dittoheads.” Or haven’t you received your talking points lately?
Rall’s characterization of Rice was a reflection of his belief that as the continued failures of this adminstration cumulate, the ends to which some of the principal players will go to, to disassociate themselves thereunto, will be extreme.
Look up the word “allegory.”
As for Rice being out of her element: When her testimony wasn’t verifying what Richard Clarke had testified to [and for which he was called a liar], it went painfully out of its way to portray her as deeply UNinvolved which was a very frightening revelation. Given this fact alone, the basis for Rall’s allegory is in place.
Sorry that all of this had to be explained but I certainly do understand why it had to be explained.
GsOuPx:
Just finished wading through the thread. You need to re-read the transcript for Rice’s hearing and then re-read the transcript for Richard Clarke’s hearing. I do not know how to subtly put this but…I think you are wrong. Rice dealt with a combative and partisan attack by grandstanding politicians and destroyed them…totally.
Using racial epitaths for allegories does not make the hurtful invective any more soothing. In this regard you are an idiot if you think that merely being a liberal, or having a liberal message is a defense for Rall’s use of racial stereotyping. Allegory my ass.
The Democratic party needs to stand up to its McCarthy’s or it must live with the consequences. With Byrd in the Senate, Moore as a messenger and Rall as a cartoonist, the Democratic party has lost its way rather badly. The extremes are becoming the mainstream. You can refuse to acknowledge the truth but the public is beginning to see the hypocricy. If you do not rebuke it, you endorse it.
In your specific case you have done more than endorse it through silence, you have defended it. I say to you directly. Get out of my party you Ass Dart. Go form your own fringe party with the likes of Moore and Rall. I want nothing to do with you. If I see you in Boston I will tell you off in person.
Rall is just too sophisticated for all of you.
Mahatma:
I WITNESSED Rice’s testimony. She was asked several times over about specific statements that Clarke had made. I challenge you to find where she refuted any of them.
As for Rall, again, RICE, NOT RALL, IS THE SPEAKER in that panel of the cartoon; she is rationalizing why she did what she did. You have to gain perspective of the context of what you are reading and which Rall explicitly gives you in his title {Appropriate Punishemnts For Deposed Bushists.]
Michelle, and most of the others like her who control how information gets disseminated and who, unfortunately dominate the media, count on you to not actually think or consider Rall’s cartoon in its proper context, rather, she wants you to react to it in her’s. Reading this thread, she has obviously succeeeded.
Mahatma:
PS: I am not a democrat. I’m a freedom loving Libertarian which is something that neither the Willing Censors of the PC crowd on the left such as you nor the Free Speecheth For Me But Notest For Thee crowd on the holier than than “right” do not understand.
Rall, Moore, and their ilk are the reason I parted ways with the Democratic Party; 30 years worth at that…
I read through many postings on this blog and was struck by the dominance of name-calling over reasoning or argument. Can any one of you drop the invective and deal with the issues to which Rall’s cartoon pointed? And the issues raised in Fahrenheit 911? Practicing civility has widespread benefits, not only to the one practicing it but to those in his/her company.
El Falls, you don’t need to practise civility to the point where all strongly held opinion is bleached out. My gawd, say something, man (or wotever u b)
Context is everything. A LOT of Black people think Condy is a sellout. That’s why there’s no stink about it from the community (well, that and the fact that it’s clear Rall’s no right-wing sympathizer — a fact also important to the context, kiddies). And it’s not just in consideration of any one particular yap session, but with regards to the body of her work - er, shilling — over the years with Bush.
Even tho most Black folk cock an eyebrow at Colin Powell, he at least garners much more respect within the community b/c the perception is that he is at least willing, from time to time, to buck heads with Bush (or Cheney or Rumsfeld or whomever) on point of principle(s).
You don’t get the same vibe observing Rice. At every turn, she appears to cow tow to her massah, hence the “joke.”
Get it?
Memer, A LOT of black people think any person of color who doesn’t kiss Al Sharpton’s ass on a daily basis is a sellout. Since when are A LOT of black people automatically right? Must we assume they’re right because they’re black? Or because there’s A LOT of them?
My opinion is that A LOT of black people are overly concerned with race and underly concerned with doing what is actually right and necessary. Perhaps A LOT of black people should stop seeing themselves as “black Americans” or “minority Americans” or “disadvantaged Americans” and just start seeing themselves as AMERICANS. Perhaps Dr. Rice has already done so and this is why A LOT of black people think so little of her; she refuses to be defined by “blackness” or “minority status” but instead by her acomplishments alone.
I think another reason A LOT of black people dislike Dr. Rice is because she has set the bar so high they’re afraid they’ll never be able to reach it (I’m sure there are plenty of white supremisist jackasses that feel the same way). She has set the bar so high, in fact, that it drastically lowers the value of the race card; A LOT of black people want to keep blaming “The Man” for all their troubles and Dr. Rice is living proof that ol’ Whitey might not be what’s keeping them down.
As someone realatively new to the center-right I’m continually amazed by the fact that conservatives are far more color blind than liberals (of whom I still associate with many). On the left everything is about “blackness” and “victimhood status”. On the right no one seems to actually care what color your skin is, but only about the quality of your thoughts and actions.
And El Falls, if you would like to see a discussion about “the issues raised in Fahrenheit 911″ you can go here: http://p090.ezboard.com/fbooktalkfrm79.showMessageRange?topicID=2.topic&start=1&stop=20. But I warn you that it’s a couple of really bright moderates and conservatives giving a bunch of leftist Mooreheads a pretty good raking over the coals. About twenty posts into the thread all of Moore’s supporters have been forced to flee the conversation or admit he’s a decietful bastard.
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The Democrats are allowing themselves to be defined as the party of low-class degenerates. No one doubts any longer that they will stoop to any level. They cannot respect the dignity of their political opponents because they themselves possess no dignity.
When they continue to lose territory and voters, will their response be to move further to the left, yet again?
Nurse, we’re losing the patient. Apply more leeches!
“On the left everything is about “blackness” and “victimhood status”. On the right no one seems to actually care what color your skin is, but only about the quality of your thoughts and actions.”
Wonderfully said Sandor.
If Dr. Rice hasn’t “butted heads” enough with Bush, maybe it is because she has not disagreed with him. Maybe it is because she is professional enough to keep the head-butting behind closed doors. Maybe she is just an ass-kisser. That is what a white person is that goes along with everything his boss says. Just an ass-kisser. No “selling out” or discrediting their race. Though I don’t think Condi is an ass-kisser.
Maybe their are people that themselves believe in “head-butting” for no other reason than stirring up trouble and get their rocks off on calling Condi a cow-towing Niggah to her Massah because she has far more productive things she can do.
Chewydog: Read my second post again, namely the part where I use the word “bigots.”
“Of course, I could just paint all conservatives as homophobes because Rick Santorum called homosexual acts a threat to society and families. After all, he is a political celebrity, so he must at least be representative of everyone in his party! Man, I could have spared everyone so many superfluous sentences if I’d just realized that I could call you bigots and be done with it!
Bigots, all of you!”
If you can look at that paragraph, with its tone in mind, and honestly conclude that I was sincerely accusing people here of bigotry, then it’s a sad day for baseball, sarcasm, and all dogs, chewy or otherwise.
I don’t know what I hate more about Ted, his excrable, stupid politics or his talentless drawings.
KB - Right on about the SPLC..but remember in our PC society only whites can be hate groups..not La Raza, MeCHA or any Farakan spin off groups.
Earl- So if you favor a common sense approach to imigration you are a hater? We’ll then add me to the list..13 million illegal aliens is just too much.
Now back to the Ted Rall cartoon…he is a hack and has been all along. You can’t dishonor other’s just to make a point. And don’t go to the idea that he is an editorialist or satirist…like the saying goes a rose by any other name…His Pat Tillman cartoon was outrageous and so is this one. Ted Rall is to cartooning what Michael Moore is to documentry films…a non-starter. I have seen two of his so called documentries and if anyone tired to make a conservative version the liberal’s would have their own lynching party. To begin with Moore’s camera work is shabby and of poor quality and his editing is designed to express his beliefs…Truth be damned as long as he further’s his own agenda.
One last note Michelle next to Bill O’Reily you are my favorite columnist.