Just because I find his work so remarkably irritating, I’ve “responded” to Ted Rall’s latest offering, “Snappy New Jeer” — another shallow dish of fetid word salad that’s light on the lettuce and heavy on the crumbled cheese. Actually, I suppose I haven’t so much responded to him as I have “reacted” to his bilious twaddle — by way of smarmy rejoinders of my own. Rall’s bunk will be block quoted, whereas mine is free to sniff the margins. You’re welcome to add your own mental observations…
NEW YORK — I admit it: I was wrong
No surprise so far, Ted.
We all were. By ‘we’ I mean The Liberal Media. I trust you’ve heard of us. We’re the limp-wristed bleeding-heart mushheads who run things at papers, radio stations and TV networks
Oh yes, you corkholes. Yeah, I remember you guys
The amazing thing is, at least 8% of Americans believe Rall’s twaddle. Even the completely false misstatements of fact, they believe.
In any case, kudos to you, Anne, for bringing Rall’s latest bloviation to my attention, and for your masterful fisking of same. In truth, since there is no way I would ever click on a Ted Rall link (in order to not give him any traffic/encouragement) you do a great service by letting me and others know exactly what Rall’s latest lies are.
Which leads me to my latest dilemma: How is it possible that anyone who grew up in the same world I did could actually believe such crap?