It's About Friggin' Time

The WaPo has finally dropped Ted Rall from its editorial page:

NEW YORK WashingtonPost.com is no longer running the cartoons of hard-hitting liberal Ted Rall.Rall said he thinks the site dropped his work because of a Nov. 4 cartoon he did showing a drooling, mentally handicapped student taking over a classroom. "The idea was to draw an analogy to the electorate -- in essence, the idiots are now running the country," he told E&P."That cartoon certainly drew a significant amount of negative comment from our users," said WashingtonPost.com Executive Editor Doug Feaver when contacted by E&P. But he added that the decision to drop Rall was a "cumulative" one that had been building for a while.

No, it was because things were great when Teddy-boy was degrading Republicans and 9-11 wives, it was over the line when he made fun of mentally impaired individuals. Teddy couldn't shut up though:

"The analogy obviously fell flat, or overshadowed the main point of the cartoon," Rall said of his Nov. 4 drawing. "More importantly, I forgot the editorial cartoonist's obligation to comfort the afflicted while afflicting the comfortable. I got the latter in that cartoon at the expense of the former. Special-needs children face a lot of challenges; they don't need, or deserve, mocking from me. ... The cartoon was effective in its way, but it could have been better."Rall said he was dropped for one "boneheaded" drawing when WashingtonPost.com has "no problem with 99% of my work." He noted that the site could have pulled the one cartoon without canceling him entirely.

Um, Ted, the analogy of Republicans=stupid is not why you got pulled. The use of a drooling, wheelchair-bound, mentally handicapped person is. The Republicans=stupid analogy would have worked if you would have portrayed them wearing a dunce cap or somesuch. Don't woory dude, I'll toss you a quarter as I pass your broke, dumb ass on the street corner where you belong.