bitchslap ted rall: the pre-bitchslapping photoshop contest
I'm going to deviate from the usual Friday takedown of my favorite whipping boy, Ted Rall. Instead of rebutting his weekly column, I am going to take on this interview with Ted in the Las Vegas Mercury.
Time constraints do not permit me to do a proper bitchslapping at the moment; that will have to wait until later.
Meanwhile, I would like to offer you this picture of Ted Rall and beg you to do something, anything with it. Make me proud. There's a prize in this one.
Actually, the photo is below. I didn't want his mug on the front page of my site.

Comments
Not very nice. If you dislike him so why do you continue to read him? Will you be posting ur pic soon?
Posted by: Concerned Citizen | October 24, 2003 02:29 PM
All you need to know about old Ted is this paragraph:
"I'm an absolute Marxist when it comes to economics," he says from New York. "I don't believe a CEO does any more work than a janitor. All labor is worth the same. I've worked under many a CEO in my life, and these guys are not smart. "
Hey, uh, Ted, in case you weren't aware, that little economic theory has been tried. A LOT. And failed - MISERABLY. If CEOs were so damn stupid, those companies would go out of business. If you don't like it, then start your own business.
By the way, it looks like he's already done that. I wonder how Ted would then feel if the Government came to take HIS money away and give it to a janitor, otherwise making $6 / hour. What a moron.
Posted by: Sherard | October 24, 2003 02:38 PM
Hey Citizen - lighten up.
Besides, Ted Rall is not beyond making fun of people for profit. I just do it for fun.
Posted by: michele | October 24, 2003 02:42 PM
Ouch...
http://www.ittasteslikeburning.net/archives/000081.html
Posted by: Lynn | October 24, 2003 02:49 PM
I think this is a good opportunity to remind readers about tiny ted's inclusion as a member of the four horsepersons of the idiopocalypse.
http://arguewithsigns.net/mt/archives/000246.html
Cheers
Posted by: bryan | October 24, 2003 03:04 PM
I just think that taking his picture and doing things to it is kinda mean. Sorry
Posted by: concern citizen | October 24, 2003 03:06 PM
I think it's mean of Ted to say "Bush is the most repulsive turd I've ever seen in American politics, and he must be defeated at all costs."
Like Mom always said - don't dish it out if you can't take it.
Posted by: Mary | October 24, 2003 03:16 PM
Mom also said two wrongs dont make a right...but whatever works for ya
Posted by: concern citizen | October 24, 2003 03:17 PM
He looks so pathetic to be so vile. You'd think he'd at least be frothing, or have a forehead-tattoo that says, "I'm what's wrong with America".
Posted by: susanna | October 24, 2003 03:26 PM
Notice how he's leaning to his left...
Posted by: Lisa | October 24, 2003 03:28 PM
My mom's probably never read Rall, but if she ever did, she'd say "What an asshelmet. You should get his picture, photoshop it into something funny, and put it on the internet."
Posted by: dave | October 24, 2003 03:32 PM
Citizen: Ted deserves whatever he gets. Have you ever read any of his screeds? Have you ever seen any of his comics? He is vile, contemptuous, mean and nasty.
Posted by: michele | October 24, 2003 03:37 PM
shee. who's got their panties in a bunch?
which reminds me, when i first moved to NYC, i lived on east 7th street... for some reason, rall was offering old books of his through the mail. i wrote him that since he actually lived just around the block from me, i could pop on over and pick up the book, saving postage. i think he thought i was stalking him.
of course, at that time (1997ish), I didn't know he was an asshat.
Posted by: meep | October 24, 2003 03:45 PM
I don’t know why, but something about Rall’s expression reminded me of the pitchfork guy in American Gothic.
Rall made that ‘widows of 9/11’ cartoon because he thought Marianne Pearl and others should be criticized because he thought they weren’t mourning they way he thought they should. He’s a Marxist who has absolute contempt for anyone who doesn’t share his point of view, a group that includes nearly all Americans.
He pretends to be laid back and 'rad' - what a joke.
Posted by: mary | October 24, 2003 04:30 PM
This entry comes from someone named Hooser.
THIS IS NOT SAFE FOR WORK
Actually it's not safe for humam consumption.
Dont' say I didn't warn you.
View image
Posted by: michele | October 24, 2003 04:31 PM
Why is Osama fucking Artie Johnson from LAUGH IN?
Posted by: Steve Hogan | October 24, 2003 05:00 PM
That's what I call throwing down the gauntlet!
Posted by: JFT | October 24, 2003 05:02 PM
This is work safe, but apt to scare children and new york artists.
http://www.steve-hogan.com/raal.gif
Posted by: Steve Hogan | October 24, 2003 05:48 PM
Concerned Citizen, Photoshopping someone's picture is an old and time-honored tradition. See www.fark.com for a billion examples. Michele did not make this up.
Posted by: Shelby | October 24, 2003 06:04 PM
Oh come, now, concerned citizen, you can't possibly honestly say you've never done something even as simple as this: aaargh, matey .
Posted by: pril | October 24, 2003 08:28 PM
This PIC is NSFW.
Posted by: dave | October 24, 2003 09:51 PM
The Carville & Matilin of the Zoloft Generation
Posted by: betty | October 25, 2003 02:10 AM
Hey "Concerned Citizen" how come you don't enter either your email address or web page? Everyone else seems to have no problem owning up to their views being expressed. Why not you?
Posted by: dave | October 25, 2003 01:52 PM
DAVE- Just my 2 cents, but I really don't have a problem if someone doesn't want to leave their email or url, and that's their right. It's possible they don't have a webpage, and many people don't like to give their email addresses out due to spam or privacy concerns. To me, when it comes to blog comments or other online forums, what you say is a lot more important than who you are or how I can reach you. If, however, the owner of a site doesn't like "anonymous" comments, they can certainly configure their site not to accept them.
Not trying to be a jerk, just offering a different view.
Posted by: dave | October 25, 2003 07:30 PM
Ooooh, I wanna play!
Posted by: Matt | October 25, 2003 08:17 PM
drat. i tried to do a trackback from mine but it no workee.
Posted by: pril | October 25, 2003 09:04 PM
Would it matter if I left I email or webpage address? I just didnt think it was nice to do. But what is is so thats all.
Posted by: Concerned Citizen | October 25, 2003 11:06 PM
MATT's is best so far. Steve H of www.littletinylies.com and I were classmates of Rall's in college and almost published him in our underground humor rag. Divine intervention made our mag go under before we were humiliated by official association with him in print.
Posted by: Aaron's Rantblog | October 25, 2003 11:44 PM