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It’s That Time Again

That’s right…it’s even more right-wing extremist hate mail from the Bushists! This time they’re angry about this week’s column, wherein I posit that the GOP may well get the trouble they were asking for when they decided to exploit the Democratic dead of 9/11 by holding their Necropublican National Convention to coincide with the 3rd anniversary of 9/11. As usual, they’re pissed off, annoyed and just plain shocked at the thought that they aren’t beloved here in the capital of liberal America, the home of Ground Zero. And as usual, the righties are obscene, illiterate and violent.

Of course, obscene, illiterate and violent is a synonym for today’s psychotic GOP.

Here we go:

From rfdrj@netscape.net:

You are a goddamned leftwing piece of shit loser asshole…………..

From lonesomevow@hotmail.com:

You sir are a traitor-North Korea, I am sure, would welcome you.

From Pirate2159@aol.com:

Mr. Rall,

You brainless shitdick. In response to your overt call for violence and antisocial behavior toward the Republican guests to NYC, including the amazing call for “children to yell obscenities at you,” I can only hope that if the terrorists who hate us as much as you do come to kill Americans again, and if some must die, that you are among the first. I pray that only those of your ill will are harmed.

Jerry Hurtubise

Homewood, IL

From jmjohn109@yahoo.com:

“the hapless saps”

You my friend are a steaming pile of pile of dog shit

unworthy of the seconds necessary to draft this note.

Your brethren exposed your attitudes to the center who

decide our elections with the Paul Wellstone RALLY

funeral and continue to alienate with each thought &

action. Please continue. You are correct GW is not a

great choice. However, I would rather vote for a

chimp than align myself with the vermin that populate

your idealogical village. You my friend are the GOP’s

best friend.

From frank.brady@sbcglobal.net:

What’s your slogan, you putrid little faggot?

Ass-lickers of the world, Unite?

From livorine@comcast.net:

Dear Mr. Rall:

I agree with you regarding the NY welcome of Republicans. I didn’t want the convention there anyway. Why go to a place where the people live like insects? A New Yorker’s idea of a model society is an ant farm. The only thing more repulsive than the city, are the people. Whenever I leave there, after I get home, I can never get quite clean for a time. New York clings to a person like the discharge of a skunk. No wonder you’re all mostly unhappy and bitter. You have to look around you every day.

I could carve better people out of bananas.

R. Richard Livorine

From rtait@cox-internet.com:

Fuck you Ted……….

From fuller30@mac.com:

Fuck you

I like to meet you in the streets of new york.

go live in cuba.

Fuller Family

Portland, OR 97219

From ancaudill@earthlink.net:

Do you know what being a “neo fascist” means?

It’s stupid little dickless fucks like you that would be the first killed if the Islamic terrorists got their way. Did you forget the fact that they declared war on is in the ’90’s and that crooked dick bitch did nothing but the hired help.

Go to hell you little commie bastard….

Best wishes

ALEX

From Patriot502003@adelphia.net:

Thank god that the New Yorkers are more followers of Rudy Giuliani than your ilk. You are a true piece of garbage that should be thrown out with the Sharptons and that prick on the City Council that believes in reparations for blacks.

Gary Darby

From dxrinc@houston.rr.com:

TURD BLOSSOM>…..lowsey sack of shit

Ted here: True Bush trivia: Bush’s nickname for Karl Rove is turdblossom.

From jkutyla1@san.rr.com:

You are freak

From newsaudio@kidk.com:

Dear Ted,

Eat a bag of shit. You suck.

Cory Bauer

From mywifegripesalot@hotmail.com:

Dear Ted, Just read your story on the rnc in New York. If this is really the way that most New Yorkers feel, then I can only pray every day that you pieces of garbage get slammed by terrorists again. Hopefully 30,000 or maybe 300,000 of you pathetic, liberal, democraps will die instead of just 3000+. I actually felt sorry for your city after 9/11, but not anymore. I only feel sorry for the intelligent New Yorkers who are forced to live amongst the scum like you.

From svdbygrc98@comcast.net:

It’s going to kill you when he gets re-elected isn’t it?

Ted here: You have to get elected in the first place in order to get re-elected.

From Nurse@LENOXHILL.NET:

u suk

From cenbucks10@yahoo.com:

GO FUCK YOURSELF

MOVE TO FRANCE CUNT

From dbstooge@earthlink.net:

I pray for the day I hear about your worthless life coming to an end. You are a communist fascist piece of shit and I will celebrate the day your soul enters Hell. I piss on your filthy corpse and wait for the day to desecrate your gravesite. Die of AIDS cunt.

From Joetrombly@aol.com:

You are a disgusting  human being

I will be looking for you when I come to NY…

And to all those who noted that I misspelled “Mayberry”: Yes, it’s true. I did.

T-Shirt Poll

My T-shirt publisher and I are trying to determine whether to print, and if so how many, the above T-shirt. The perfect outfit for protesting the Necropublication National Convention or just for living in New York this fall, the New York Hates Dubya T-shirt is just $14.95 and available in all sizes. If you want one, you’ll definitely have it on time for the RNC.

Please e-mail chet@rall.com to tell me how many copies you want and in what sizes. Shipping is via priority mail and will be charged accordingly.

If I hear from enough people, I’ll email you back with payment instructions.

Covering the RNC

Anyone with a spare media pass to the RNC? If so, please email me at chet@rall.com.

Wussy Protesters

United for Peace and Justice, the organization applying for parade permits to protest the Republican National Convention in New York, originally requested the use of Central Park’s Great Lawn for a gathering of about 250,000 protesters. When the city agency in charge of issuing permits declined their request, they UPJ agreed to an absurd solution: being shunted to the narrow strip of asphalt called the West Side Highway more than a mile away from the convention site, in an area devoid of restaurants and restrooms where water could be obtained.

Now UPJ is balking at a deal they shouldn’t have cut in the first place, which makes them look doubly wanky.

UPJ should tell the Bloomberg Administration that 250,000-plus people are coming to New York, like it or not. Plane tickets have been purchased, buses chartered. Central Park was never the right spot anyway: protesters should be, and the First Amendment grants the right to be, directly out front of the convention site at Madison Square Garden, right at the corner of Seventh Avenue and West 33rd Street. Who cares about permits? Organizers should instruct everyone to meet at the Great Lawn and march down Seventh to the RNC. Face it: the NYPD cannot and is not inclined to arrest 250,000 peaceful marchers. And if they are, well, all the better for the spirit of civil disobedience.

Nothing is more sickening than the current “left’s” excessive penchant for compromise with Constitution-hating neofascists.

Lt. Kerry Cartoon

Last week I drew a cartoon critical of John Kerry’s repeated reliance on his service during the Vietnam War in his campaign. In a crusade that proves blinders aren’t the exclusive domain of the right, many Democrats have written me to remind me–as if I didn’t know!–that defeating George W. Bush is so important that all patriotic Americans must unite to defeat him. And again: duh.

Look, I’m going to vote for Kerry. And I’m urging others to do so. But Kerry’s vote for the war in Iraq makes him vulnerable to the charge that he was following the polls more than his principles when he cast that vote. And his continued trumpeting of his bravery during Vietnam–a war he came to oppose later than most other Americans–makes it seem like he doesn’t understand one simple fact.

That fact is that there is nothing honorable about having served in Vietnam. The United States murdered more than a million Vietnamese in a harebrained attempt to prop up a corrupt puppet regime fighting a proxy war. U.S. troops, as Kerry testified after the fact, committed countless war crimes and atrocities against innocent people. The war was shit; fighting bravely and gallantly in a shit war doesn’t erase that.

It would be far more effective for Kerry to say that Iraq is a mistake similar to Vietnam, and that he was mistaken to support both.

Right-Wing Smear Campaign

The following comes from Editor & Publisher magazine:

Group Complains to Papers and Syndicate About Ted Rall

By E&P Staff

Published: August 10, 2004

NEW YORK A conservative Web-based group has targeted cartoonist Ted Rall with protest letters sent to more than a dozen newspapers that publish his work as well as his syndicate, Universal. Rall has responded by denouncing the “Borglike hive-mind of reactionary Republicans.”

The letters e-mailed and faxed were identically worded, according to The Aspen (Colo.) Times, which received about 100 of them, and called for the axing of Rall’s work on grounds that it is “melodramatically ideological, simple-headed, snarling, and tasteless.” The letters identified the source as laptoplobbyist.com, billed as “America’s First and Foremost Online Conservative Community.”

Chris Carmouche of Kansas City, Mo., a board member of laptoplobbyist.com, told the Aspen paper that the letters were part of the organization’s weekly “action initiative.” Each week the organization sends form letters on behalf of its members to policy makers and publications.

Rall commented: “Stuff like this is the result of a point-and-click blogger subculture. It’s only something that started when the Bush administration took power. The right is reactionary. They like to indulge in censorship. The First Amendment is not really their friend.”

Universal Press Syndicate Editor Lee Salem told the Aspen paper that mass postings from online political groups are common and mostly ignored.

Rall’s cartoon, however, was dropped by MSNBC.com after Web editors received many form letters criticizing his cartoon about slain NFL star and Army Ranger Pat Tillman. Rall suggested Tillman was an “idiot” for leaving his family and enlisting for the war in Afghanistan.

Salem said none of the papers that received the laptoplobbyist.com letters have decided to drop Rall’s work. The Aspen Times said it will continue to publish his cartoon every Tuesday.

Many of you have written to ask what we can do about this. Well, a few sharp-eyed FORs have noted that Laptoplobbyist.com’s OWN fax number is:

800-878-6033

That’s:

800-878-6033

in case you missed it the first time. As Laptoplobbyist.com says on its own website: “Today’s battles are being fought with tomorrow’s technology.  A personal letter to a decision maker only has a limited effect.  Thousands of letters flooding a decision maker’s fax machine at once makes the decision maker stand up and take notice.  I want to have a REAL IMPACT.”

That’s a toll-free fax number, folks.

Alan Keyes, Fascist

So “black Republican” (if there’s anything sillier than that oxymoron, I have yet to hear it) Alan Keyes is running for Senate. I suppose it’s a fine thing that the GOP found someone to run against Obama, but if they wanted to go the black against black route they might have chosen someone who isn’t a died-in-the-wool fascist. Keyes, who ran for president in 1992 and 1996, already is suffering from one of those mass emails going around the Internet containing embarrassing quotes, but one important one is missing.

Because Alan Keyes didn’t like one of my cartoons in 2002, during the height of the Bushite Two Year Hate Against the Left that followed 9/11, he actually suggested that I be shot, imprisoned or subjected to government censorship:

Should such a cartoonist be punished, arrested? Shot at dawn? Or does any such suggestion violate principles which are themselves crucial to the cause we fight to defend?

To answer these questions, we must first of all retain our confidence in certain moral judgments, in our capacity to make certain basic distinctions. Serious debate about the war and its purpose is crucial, and freedom to conduct this debate, in Congress and elsewhere, must be non-negotiable in all but the most genuinely extreme circumstances.

But this brutal and inhuman comic strip was not debate – it was an assault on the decent national sensibilities crucial to the war effort. Such assaults are a kind of pornography in civic discourse. And like our response to pornographers, our toleration of Mr. Rall, and our means for dealing with him, are matters for prudential consideration.

A free people should normally suppress such activities through private moral judgment and association. Pornographers should be shunned by all, and likewise Mr. Ted Rall should have been fired immediately by those with professional authority over him, or in contractual relations with him. Such action in defense of the decent judgment of this people in regard to 9-11 would be more than sufficient to keep such as Mr. Rall from subverting our national resolve.

But it is worth remembering that when serious and sustained attempts to undermine public opinion on a matter genuinely essential to national life cannot be resisted by other means, governmental action may be necessary.

If Keyes belongs in the Senate, Hitler belongs in the White House.

Clarification on West Coast Book Tour

People have written to ask whether I’ll be doing a book signing in their city. In general, the answer depends on whether or not your local newspaper runs my cartoons and/or columns. I’ve discovered over the years that turnout is far too low in cities where I have a local paper to justify the travel and other expenses associated with setting up an event.

A base paper makes people aware of my work, runs listings or a full-length article and may even kick in money to make the event happen. This is another reason that the Internet is evil; it encourages people to read my work online, where I don’t get paid, rather than ask their local paper to carry me.

Don’t get me wrong: I’d love to visit every major city. But I don’t want to squander my publishers’ money for signings where 3 people show up.

The exception to the above: if a group willing to buy substantial newspaper advertising wants to sponsor a speaking event, that can be worthwhile for all concerned. However, I charge an honorarium for appearances unrelated to a book tour.

Book Offer to Expire

The offer for signed copies and sketches expires August 15th.