Yesterday, I sent an email to several right-wing blogs asking them to retract their previous repetitions of the LA Times Editor’s Note about me. Right Wing News, which has frequently attacked my politics and my work in the past, writes that, after listening to the new enhanced audiotape of my 2001 jaywalking arrest, it is difficult to determine what happened, and that there is significant doubt that the LA Times should have fired me, as opposed to airing the police’s disagreement with my account:
Right Wing News: Was The LA Times Right To Fire Ted Rall For Supposedly Lying About A 2001 Encounter With The Police?
The New York Observer has published a followup to their initial report:
New York Observer: Former LA Times Cartoonist Mulls Lawsuit
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Every sitcom ever has done this scene.
“Well, boys, the press is reporting on our abuses of power. What are we gonna do about it?”
“We could clean up our acts!”
(riotous laughter)
“No, seriously – what are we gonna do?”
“Let’s get ‘im fired”
“Sounds good to me”
And I have the word for it: RALLroaded.
Sue them Ted. I have been following this story and am convinced you are right and that the LAPD lied.
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Ditto!