Those outside of the LA market may not be aware that Ted Ralls was more than happy to work for KFI, Rush Limbaugh's largest broadcast station.
He has a long list of complaints about unfair treatment but simply doesn't face the reality that even liberals don't find him that insightful or funny. Liberal media outlets like the Village Voice grew tired of him and he accused them of being part of a conspiracy.
For 20 years Rall has claimed that he isn't as successful as other illustrators because he is the victim of vast conspiracies to silence him.
In 1999, Rall wrote an article in the Village Voice[8] accusing Maus creator Art Spiegelman of lacking talent and controlling who gets high-profile assignments from magazines such as The New Yorker through personal connections, including his wife, a New Yorker editor.
The fact is that he isn't provocative but tasteless. He brought universal revulsion when he completely libeled Pat Tillman in cartoons as someone who joined the military simply to kill Arabs.
The Washington Post dropped him for his tasteless use of mentally handicapped folks in a cartoon.
After only 4 months in office he called for Obama to be impeached:
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/28-3
From healthcare to torture to the economy to war, Obama has reneged on pledges real and implied. So timid and so owned is he that he trembles in fear of offending, of all things, the government of Turkey. Obama has officially reneged on his campaign promise to acknowledge the Armenian genocide. When a president doesn't have the 'nads to annoy the Turks, why does he bother to show up for work in the morning?
Obama is useless. Worse than that, he's dangerous. Which is why, if he has any patriotism left after the thousands of meetings he has sat through with corporate contributors, blood-sucking lobbyists and corrupt politicians, he ought to step down now--before he drags us further into the abyss.
The fact is that the liberal media has simply found his work to be offensive without being particularly provocative and in some cases beyond tasteless. His call for President Obama's impeachment just a few weeks after he took office was seen as a nothing more than ambitious pandering to promote himself as the country's most angry commentator and complaining that the President hadn't passed health care reform in 120 days or that the administration's position on the official definition of Armenian genocide as a major issue as further indications that he had a juvenile point of view.
This from a guy that probably has made as much money from far right wing sources as he has from left, it is not surprising that having become a professional failure that it is all up to 'censorship', just like an adolescent stamping their feet saying 'unfair'.
So given the fact that you can write and publish your own books, as he has tried to do and failed, how do you make the case that no one buys your books? More censorship?
For Ted Rall the Village Voice, Daily Kos, the Washington Post owe him a job and when they find his work sub standard it can only be because of 'censorship'.
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