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Ted Rall (born 1963 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is a left-wing columnist and editorial cartoonist. Unlike many editorial cartoonists, his political cartoons usually appear in a traditional comic-strip format. He attended Columbia University, where he contributed cartoons to the campus newspapers, and graduated in 1991 with a bachelor of arts in history. Rall says meeting Keith Haring in 1986 inspired him to pursue cartooning. In 1999, Rall created a fervor among cartoonists when he wrote a controversial article damning Maus creator Art Spiegelman in the Village Voice for allegedly controlling who gets lucrative assignments from magazines like The New Yorker. He was heckled publicly after the article, most blatantly by New York Press cartoonist Danny Hellman. Hellman parodied Rall's Voice style and person, in a phony email that appeared to have come from Rall, declaring that he was going to start a new column entitled "Ted Rall's Balls." The email was sent to a small number of Hellman's friends and Rall -- but was also made to appear that the email went to many prominent figures in New York cartoon publishing. Rall responded with a $1.5 million lawsuit, and has been suing Hellman ever since.  A Ted Rall cartoon depicting John Kerry and George W. Bush. Bush is always portrayed as a vicious military dictator in Rall's comics. Rall has been criticized by many with regard to several of his cartoons. One in particular, the "Terror Widows" cartoon, which ridiculed the apparent greed of widows of men killed in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack, was considered offensive by many. Rall, commenting on an appearance on Bill O'Reilly's television program, replied to the criticism, "I've done a few lousy cartoons in my time that I'd love to take back, but this isn't one of them." Rall outraged many with his posthumous criticism of Pat Tillman, whom his comic described as an "idiot" and "sap" for participating in the US invasion of Afghanistan. He also created controversey with his July 5, 2004 cartoon (link (http://www.ucomics.com/rallcom/2004/07/05/)) depicting Condoleezza Rice going to a "racial re-education camp" and referring to her as a "house nigga." Rall, a white man, was accused of racism by many critics. Rall also raised hackles with his May 4, 2004 Op/Ed "AN ARMY OF SCUM: Or, We're Looking For a Few Good Homosexual Rapists", in which he wrote, "American troops occupying Iraq have become virtually indistinguishable from the SS". An Op/ED piece (site (http://www.uexpress.com/tedrall/?uc_full_date=20040608)) by Ted Rall published shortly after the death of former President Ronald Reagan claims Reagan is "turning crispy brown right about now" implying that the former president is burning in hell. A cartoon (link (http://www.ucomics.com/rallcom/2004/11/08/))depicting mentally disabled children drew complaints from advocates for the disabled. And led to his cartoons being dropped of The Washington Post website. Rall responded in his blog saying: "I regret hurting people who I have nothing against. I do want to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, and I think I failed in that with this cartoon. Not to mention that the cartoon failed--too many people got bogged down in the analogy and the main point got lost." Ted Rall is a frequent guest on "Hannity and Colmes". Publications
BlogTed Rall is also the author of Search and Destroy: Ted Rall is America's BS detector (see external links) External links
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Transcripts from Hannity & Colmes
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