Bye Bye Teddy

Editor and Publisher is reporting that hate mongering traitor--er, cartooninst--Ted Rall has been given the sack by the Washington Post. Heh!

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.

Here's a link to the cartoon. Base10 is wondering if the retarded kid in the 'toon is actually a Rall self-portrait.

Via LGF.
- posted by Base10 @ 8:32 AM