Of ALL the People Exaggerating a Physical Encounter With Police
…you’d NEVER guess one of them to be the delightful Ted Rall, would you?
Coulda knocked me over with a feather.
Ted Rall, Los Angeles Times cartoonist, dropped after blog post appears to stretch the truth
A left-wing cartoonist’s recent depiction of a 14-year-old encounter with the LAPD has gotten him canned as a freelance contributor to the LA Times after the paper said it had “serious questions” about the accuracy of the encounter.
Ted Rall, whose illustrator’s pen has targeted the intellect of U.S. troops in Iraq and the widows of terror attack victims, was dropped by the Times after a May 11 blog post in which he said he was “roughed” up by police for jaywalking in 2001.
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“An audiotape of the encounter recorded by the police officer does not back up Rall’s assertions; it gives no indication that there was physical violence of any sort by the policeman or that Rall’s license was thrown into the sewer or that he was handcuffed,”
the Times wrote on Thursday in the space above where Rall’s blog post was originally published. “Nor is there any evidence on the recording of a crowd of shouting onlookers.”
Rall “stands by his blog post,” according to the Times.
Rall defends himself in a nearly 2,500-word post on anewdomain.net, including why, when his encounter with the LAPD was over, he asked the officer for dining recommendations.
“Listening to the tape now, I can’t imagine what I was thinking,” Rall writes.
“The only explanation I can fathom is that I had classic Stockholm Syndrome. I was stunned at the time. Not that I’m comparing myself with a rape victim — far from it — but now I better understand why sometimes a raped woman will question pressing charges or call a date-rapist at home hours after he left her. I was blathering nonsense, I guess.”
No, you are “blathering nonsense” NOW, Teddy.
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July 30, 2015 10:00 am
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Couldn’t happen to a nicer person.
It’s taken the Los Angeles Times this long to figure out Rall is an hysterical fabulist? There’s ‘not too quick on the uptake’ and then there’s the Los Angeles Times.
Ted Rall could benefit from a few baton swipes across his dome. A few dozen baton cracks on his knuckles would certainly improve his drawing capabilities.
I’m not sure about the knuckles, but the dome could certainly use a few clue-bats.