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In May of 2014, Rall was hired as a columnist for Silicon Valley newspage ''Pando''. His feuds with Goldberg and [[Ann Coulter]] were even named as brownie points when he was hired.<ref>http://pando.com/2014/05/19/ted-rall-joins-pando-this-is-going-to-be-good/</ref> However, within a month, he was fired.<ref>http://rall.com/2014/06/25/abrupty-fired-by-pando</ref><ref>http://valleywag.gawker.com/pando-abruptly-fired-two-high-profile-staffers-without-1595758189</ref> While no official reason has been given: His columns on the American legal system being worse than a [[communist]] [[dictatorship]];<ref>http://pando.com/2014/05/23/nsa-spying-vs-chinese-spying-why-we-are-not-hypocrites/</ref> his cartoon mocking car accident victims;<ref>http://pando.com/2014/06/03/disrupting-darwinism-att-offers-50000-to-stop-cellphone-users-getting-hit-by-cars/</ref> and his simultaneous sourcing of well known crank site [[Globalresearch.ca]] in the same article where he extols a suicide bomber;<ref>http://pando.com/2014/06/13/americas-moderates-are-wild-crazy-and-more-extreme-than-any-extremist/</ref><ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/us/friends-of-moner-mohammad-abusalha-saw-no-indications.html?_r=0<ref> probably didn't do him any favors.
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In May of 2014, Rall was hired as a columnist for Silicon Valley newspage ''Pando''. His feuds with Goldberg and [[Ann Coulter]] were even named as brownie points when he was hired.<ref>http://pando.com/2014/05/19/ted-rall-joins-pando-this-is-going-to-be-good/</ref> However, within a month, he was fired.<ref>http://rall.com/2014/06/25/abrupty-fired-by-pando</ref><ref>http://valleywag.gawker.com/pando-abruptly-fired-two-high-profile-staffers-without-1595758189</ref> While no official reason has been given: His columns on the American legal system being worse than a [[communist]] [[dictatorship]];<ref>http://pando.com/2014/05/23/nsa-spying-vs-chinese-spying-why-we-are-not-hypocrites/</ref> his cartoon mocking car accident victims;<ref>http://pando.com/2014/06/03/disrupting-darwinism-att-offers-50000-to-stop-cellphone-users-getting-hit-by-cars/</ref> and his simultaneous sourcing of well known crank site [[Globalresearch.ca]] in the same article where he extols a suicide bomber;<ref>http://pando.com/2014/06/13/americas-moderates-are-wild-crazy-and-more-extreme-than-any-extremist/</ref><ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/us/friends-of-moner-mohammad-abusalha-saw-no-indications.html?_r=0</ref> probably didn't do him any favors.
  
 
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Ted Rall is an American cartoonist. Noted for gaining a tremendous amount of good will for appearing at #15 on Bernie Goldberg's 110 People Who Are Screwing Up America list,[1] Rall vowed to spend the rest of his life flushing every ounce credibility he gained from this achievement down the toilet. Probably the closet thing there is to a leftist equivalent of Bruce Tinsley, only with worse art and more racism.

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Ted Rall can't draw. Even after working as a cartoonist for decades he has absolutely zero ability to draw characters with distinctive faces or body types. Even famously crappy artists like Bruce Tinsley and Scott Adams learned to draw characters who could be identified by silhouette. His strips are also just as free of jokes as Tinsley's, but at least Tinsley's cartoons are prevented from going too far by newspaper censors. Rape and graphic violence flood Rall's cartoons like noise floods a microphone hooked to Alex Jones.

But the worst aspect of Rall's cartoon's is his conspiracy mongering and hatred of doing actual research. Just as an example, when former Arizona Cardinals player Pat Tillman was killed in a friendly fire accident, Rall drew a cartoon depicting Tillman as a racist, trigger happy idiot who only signed up to kill Arabs.[2] Not only was none of this true, but Tillman was an outspoken secular humanist who joined the military to fight against the frothing fundamentalist nutbags who killed thousands of Americans and held women's rights over a barrel.[3] It took Rall a full year to even attempt an apology,[4] all because he was incapable of understanding why anyone with leftist beliefs would want to fight against al-Qaeda.

Racism

For a supposed advocate against racism, it's absolutely stunning what crops up in Rall's cartoons. On his '04 post-Independence Day cartoon, Rall famously called Condoleezza Rice a "house nigger" and mocked her for having straight hair.[5] On his April 9th, 2012 cartoon, he compared airport security to the Holocaust.[6] When Georgia police restrained a 6 year old girl for her own protection after she assaulted her principle,[7] he depicted them as rapists in his cartoon.[8] He's one of the few people on Earth who mocked the death of Nelson Mandela and criticized him for not setting up a communist state.[9]

It's hard to say weather he's merely insensitive or straight up racist, but either way it's completely inexcusable.

Pando

In May of 2014, Rall was hired as a columnist for Silicon Valley newspage Pando. His feuds with Goldberg and Ann Coulter were even named as brownie points when he was hired.[10] However, within a month, he was fired.[11][12] While no official reason has been given: His columns on the American legal system being worse than a communist dictatorship;[13] his cartoon mocking car accident victims;[14] and his simultaneous sourcing of well known crank site Globalresearch.ca in the same article where he extols a suicide bomber;[15][16] probably didn't do him any favors.

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