"If I ever start a paper ... MediaMinded runs the slots - that's the type of editor I want as the last line of defense." - James Lileks
Monday, July 08, 2002
'CREATE TWO, THREE, MANY TED RALLS': Sorry to paraphrase Che Guevara's famous call for a multiplicity of Vietnams, but that seems to be the point of this story from "The Nation." In the apparent atmosphere of incipient fascism goin' down in John Ashcroft's Amerikkka, brave editorial cartoonists of Rall's ilk are needed more than ever. Rall himself is trotted out to complain about "censorship" after many newspapers dropped his cartoon in the wake of his outrageous "Terror Widows" cartoon and people criticized him for his gross insensitivity. (There's that "strongly voiced criticism masking as oppression" argument again. As I've written before, many on the Left are really starting to sound like Ann Coulter.)