Ted Rall: Still a Liar
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Filed under: General Scum— Patterico @ 5:01 pm
Remember what Ted Rall said when he issued his challenge to right-wingers:
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So here’s my challenge: Please email your worst, most vicious examples of liberal/leftie blogger vitriol (with links, natch), and I’ll post ‘em right here. If they exist, obviously.
(Emphasis mine.)
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He didn’t say: “I’ll post one representative e-mail and then allude to the rest.” He said: “I’ll post ‘em right here.”
Now he’s going back on his pledge.
First, Rall set up an e-mail address that didn’t work. Then, after Rall got called on the fact that e-mails to him kept bouncing, he changed the e-mail address – but didn’t update the original post in which he issued the challenge, to reflect the new address.
Despite all these roadblocks, he still received an appalling number of entries.
So: did he “post ‘em right here"? Nope. After posting one single entry, Rall says:
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Don’t doubt, my fellow progressives, that there are more–many more–where these came from. I have about 20 more acceptable entries along these lines. And I received a few that were so ugly that I won’t even post them because they were so racist and bigoted that I’m afraid people might think *I’d* posted them.
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Nonsense. Rall had no such qualms when he posted – at great length – hate mail that he claims* was sent to him in the past.
The reason Rall isn’t posting all the entries he received is obvious: the more left-wing hate-filled crap he posts, the stupider his challenge looks. So he pretends to take the high ground by (sort of) admitting he was wrong – but fails to follow through on his pledge, and hopes we won’t notice.
Well, we do.
*I refer to hate mail that Rall “claims” he received, because I don’t know whether Rall really received it. After all, Ted Rall lies – this very post is evidence of that.
P.S. This post initially also contained the following language:
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Rall is well-known as a left-winger. Nobody is going to think that Rall posted rantings against left-wing personalities. This is an obvious and pathetic dodge.
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Huh? I gotta get more sleep, because this argument made no sense. If I were someone else, I’d be making fun of myself. As commenter Dafydd points out, I had it exactly backwards.
But it’s still a dodge, just not for the reason I said. As Dafydd also notes, Rall could easily show that these are not his sentiments. For example, he could put them in a different typeface.
The guy has no excuse for not keeping his word.
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