Political cartoonist defends anti-Reagan Web tirade

[Snellius]

Political cartoonist Ted Rall's comment that the late President Ronald Reagan is "turning crispy brown right about now" provoked a reaction that crashed his Web site for at least 24 hours after the remark was posted on the Drudge Report.

"I think most people view the president as a fair target," Mr. Rall said yesterday in an interview. "Reagan was a public figure, and he was an idiot. And if he were around and lucid, he would probably say that it comes with the territory."
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"Still, I'm not a knee-jerk left-wing guy," Mr. Rall said. "I am an advocate of the Second Amendment; I don't believe in abortion as birth control; and I was the first to call for Clinton's impeachment. I think that this country has shifted so far over to the right that anyone who is a garden-variety Democrat circa 1972 is painted as a Marxist-Leninist."

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040608-114726-8654r.htm

[el_gato]

1. Rall tells it like it is

Never apologize for bashing someone who deserves to it.
Reagan was the one who took Iraq off of the list of nations
that sponsor terror in 1982. The so-called patriotic ones should
hate reagan for that but it's just more see no evil, hear no evil,
speak no evil from that segment of society.

[sui generis]

2. Amen to that

of all the freedoms the freepers love it is the freedom to try to squash everyone else's free speech that they love the most (followed closely by the freedom to tell people which christian god to worship, and who they can marry and fuck).

[checks-n-balances]

3. Well.......There he goes again!

(Rall, I mean) sending the RW into apoplexia.

[donhakman]

7. I guess if you say any white conservative is brown

it is probably the worst thing they would think you could say.

Trent Lott is one quarter Negro! Eeeeekk

George W's maternal grandmother was BLACK ! Oh NO!

[mopaul]

4. it's our constitutional right to be rude & disrespectful in public

many don't like that, and i guess i can see why. rush does it all the time, as do freepers and right wing assholes. why should they be allowed to be the only public assholes, and not us?

i hated reagan, and i STILL don't have anything nice to say about him, only rotten things.

[efhmc]

5. What a relief to hear something negative on the airwaves about that

sadist, RR.

[oldshoe]

6. Speaking of crashing websites. Does anybody know about Frankens...

...nonoffical website, AlFrankenWeb.com?

I've not been able to get on for two days.

This is the old site, not the new one related to the AirAmerica station? We had a troll infestation then --poof--!

I'd appreciate any solid info.

[BigMcLargehuge]

8. domain name registration lapse

there was another thread, I think in the lounge, about it. Should be back in a day or two once the domain repropagates.