Ted Rall for October 06, 2010
October 04, 2010
October 08, 2010
Transcript:
In Afghanistan, I grew a beard and wore a Shalwar Kameez. I tried to blend in. I got arrested instead. (Man: You are American? Why are you here in Afghanistan?) (Man 2: I am a journalist.) I told officials I was a journalist. They didn't believe me. (Man 1: You are not a journalist. Journalists travel with soldiers and armed guards.) (Man 2: Not real journalists.) (Man 1: You are terrorist, yes?) (Man 2: No!) The only reporters Afghans had ever seen were embedded with heavily armed troops. (Man 1: We never see this. You say you are reporter, but you travel just by yourself? You stay where?) (Man 2: With Afghan people.) That's right: Independent journalism in Afghanistan has been abandoned to cartoonists. (Man 1: But real reporters never talk to afghans.) Explains a lot.
Jaedabee Premium Member over 13 years ago
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Headlines/cartoonist-ted-rall-returns-from-afghanistan-62680-.aspx
Holy bleeep, Ted, you’re awesome.
Motivemagus over 13 years ago
Wow. Any of you righties who hate him so – whaddya think now?
Jaedabee Premium Member over 13 years ago
Ted, if you’re reading this can we PLEASE see a picture of you with your beard??
ChukLitl Premium Member over 13 years ago
They’ve been turning up intermittently in the LATimes. It’s not bad but it’s not Kipling.
pirate227 over 13 years ago
Interesting, I would a big time cartoonist like Ted could afford to pay is own way.
Motivemagus over 13 years ago
pirate…whaaa?? “Big time cartoonist?” Ted Rall is known to people like us who haunt comics sites and to those who appreciate underground and ground-level comix, but “big time cartoonist” who makes money is more like Jim Davis (Garfield), not any editorial cartoonist. Editorial cartoonists scrape along as best they can – that’s why so many try to start strips, to get more of a mass audience. Even Toles, who to my mind is one of the best if not the best editorial cartoonist in the US today, tried that, and unfortunately failed with his strip (which I happened to like). Ted can be as sharp as Toles, but is rarely as family-friendly! I have a hard time seeing him producing the next Garfield…
iamthelorax over 13 years ago
“Righties” have been loving Ted since Obama got elected and started disappointing him…It didn’t take long, Ted has been critical ever since.
sirrom567 over 13 years ago
If “right” actually meant right …
WarBush over 13 years ago
Ted’s efforts remind me of how Raw Story and other journalism sites are keeping true journalism alive.
All we get now is stories on Lindsay Lohan goes to jail.
pirate227 over 13 years ago
motivemagus, I stand corrected.
WarBush over 13 years ago
^Dude, I’ve never heard of Ted Rall until I saw his work on the Neil Roger’s website. When they didn’t update their website found this place where they feature him on a daily basis. I’m willing to bet most people out there haven’t heard of him as much as they heard of Garfield. Motive is correct on this one.