Ted Rall, political cartoonist and columnist, who appears to be on either a huge ego trip or carrying out a death wish (as far as his career is concerned) just won't stop. First the NY Times drops his cartoons for content, then the Washington Post drops him after his comic strip depicting Republican-dominated American politics as a "classroom in which mentally handicapped children are mainstreamed"--complete with mocking pictures of drooling special-needs students. Many parents of real-life special-needs students took notice.
Next Rall went on a rant about Kerry supporters being smarter than Bush voters. Unbelievable.
The Weekly Standard is reporting what Rall had to say when he appeared on NPR and co-host Barbara Bogaev had invited him on to defend "what some might say" was the "smug elitism" of his published "rant" about the cerebral inferiority of Bush voters.
Was Rall repentant? ABSOLUTELY NOT! In fact, he went into a further discussion defending the position he had taken:
I do think that it's important for the intellectual elite to be proud of what we do. Those of us who are in the punditry class, those of us who live in the big coastal cities, we do have access to better information than people in the Midwest. If you read the Toledo Blade, you don't get as much high-quality information as you do if you read the New York Times. But I do think Hank is absolutely right when you talk about the need to, obviously, to communicate with people. The way that that's going to happen is to stop overintellectualizing issues, and to tap into the sort of hot-button emotional responses that were so successful for liberals through the '60s and '70s. And then somehow we started becoming all intellectual and arguing facts and, you know, facts don't really work with the electorate because unfortunately, let's face it, the electorate is mostly stupid.
He went on:
Isn't it kind of intellectually dishonest on the part of Democrats, especially people who are well informed and who are journalists, to try to pretend that they know less than they do? People who are busy working 52 hours a week don't really have the time to watch CNN and MSNBC and Fox News every day all day long like I do. They're not reading Libération or Le Monde like I do.
Unbelievable.
The unmitigated gall of the creep almost leaves me speechless...
...but wait! there's more!
Another guest on the show, Democratic media consultant Hank Sheinkopf, had THIS to say:
"In order for Democrats to thrive again," he sighs, "unfortunately we're gonna need some economic problems that are more severe, and we're gonna need a belief that people have to be protected, that market forces are not sufficient. And a couple of good downturns in the economy in the Midwest would be a lot helpful."
Don't ever...EVER...tell me again that Democrats aren't wishing and praying (well, maybe not praying...who would they pray to?) for a disaster to befall the country so that they can benefit at others' bad fortune...
...this is so revealing...and disgusting...and enlightening...and revolting...
I am sooooooooooo glad that I live in 'fly-over' country...that I am considered stupid by these creeps...that I can look myself in the mirror at night....and that I go to sleep thanking God for the good life that I have...
...these people need more help than any PEST "specialist" can ever give them....their problems didn't begin with the fact that George W. Bush won the election...it goes much, much, much deeper than that...and there is nothing...NOTHING...that we could ever do to help them...
DR
