Couldn't Happen to a More Deserving Extreme-Left Hatebot
Ted Rall (who still believes Bill Maher is a "libertarian") can hardly make enough money to feed his cats, now that liberal/progressive publications are no longer in the market for left-wing critiques of the President:
It feels a little weird to write this, like I'm telling tales out of school and ratting out the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy. But it's true: there's less room for a leftie during the Age of Obama than there was under Bush.
I didn't realize how besotted progressives were by Mr. Hopey Changey.
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There's been a push among political cartoonists to get our work into the big editorial blogs and online magazines that seem poised to displace traditional print political magazines like The Progressive. In the past, editorial rejections had numerous causes: low budgets, lack of space, an editor who simply preferred another creator's work over yours.
Now there' s a new cause for refusal: Too tough on the president.
I've heard that from enough "liberal" websites and print publications to consider it a significant trend.
A sample of recent rejections, each from editors at different left-of-center media outlets:
· "I am familiar with and enjoy your cartoons. However the readers of our site would not be comfortable with your (admittedly on point) criticism of Obama."
· "Don't be such a hater on O and we could use your stuff. Can't you focus more on the GOP?"
· "Our first African-American president deserves a chance to clean up Bush's mess without being attacked by us."
I have many more like that.
What's weird is that these cultish attitudes come from editors and publishers whose politics line up neatly with mine. They oppose the bailouts. They want us out of Afghanistan and Iraq. They disapprove of Obama's new war against Libya. They want Obama to renounce torture and Guantánamo.
Obama is the one they ought to be blackballing. He has been a terrible disappointment to the American left. He has forsaken liberals at every turn. Yet they continue to stand by him. Which means that, in effect, they are not liberals at all. They are militant Democrats. They are Obamabots.
You'd need a heart of stone not to laugh.
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Aug '10
Re: Couldn't Happen to a More Deserving Extreme-Left Hatebot
Criticism is a blade that cuts both ways. There will be a lot more testimonials like this before the Obama Saga ends. How do you spell schadenfreude?
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Obamabot? That's a brilliant word. Is that new? I love it.
And of course that's when we've always said is the problem with the media in general. It isn't that they're liberals. It's that they're "militant Democrats." Partisan, militant, lockstep Democrats.
May '10
Re: Couldn't Happen to a More Deserving Extreme-Left Hatebot
It certainly is amusing that Ted Rall is just now discovering that the left suppresses speech it finds inconvenient. Will he ever progress to the next step of realizing that this has been standard behavior on the left for far longer than he has been alive?
May '10
Re: Couldn't Happen to a More Deserving Extreme-Left Hatebot
Rob Long: Obamabot? That's a brilliant word. Is that new? I love it.
· May 18 at 10:51am
Not that new; I think I first started seeing it in 2008, in response to all the Gliechschaltung-saturated campaign rhetoric.
Mar '11
Re: Couldn't Happen to a More Deserving Extreme-Left Hatebot
Oh the poor dear, I am sure he, like many Americans, will see his employment opportunities flourish after 2012. I bet he can find something nice to say about President Palin. :D
Oct '10
Re: Couldn't Happen to a More Deserving Extreme-Left Hatebot
I couldn’t agree more Damian. The Japan Times, the leading English language newspaper here (which reads like a left wing blog) carries his weekly column. The way he trashed George Bush for years was unconscionable. He is learning the hard way that the left will only tolerate opinions in sync with their party line and will punish anyone who dares to dissent from it. I do have a small amount of sympathy for him though. It has to be hard to discover that what you so fevertly believe in does not reflect the way in which the world works.
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Ted Rall must be a bit thick if he realized only now that he was and is a tool. If he wants work in Obama's paradise, he will have to get with the program.
Oct '10
Re: Couldn't Happen to a More Deserving Extreme-Left Hatebot
You're right Dr. Rahe. He's not too quick on the uptake. You should have read his column on when he tried to apply for President Obama's mortgage relief program. His incredulous surprise and frustrtion at the repeated rejections despite the "two feet" of paperwork he submitted brought a smile to my lips. "Hope and change" have turned to ashes in his mouth.
Edited on May 19, 2011 at 4:55am