From Editor & Publisher: (The text in square brackets is added by me for clarity.)

WashingtonPost.com Drops Ted Rall’s Cartoons [To Run “Autorantoons” by Autorantic Virtual Moonbat]
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[Ted] Rall [ — whose almost unbelievably bad political cartoons have been running on WashingtonPost.com despite being utterly worthless, bigoted, and libelous — ] hopes the site will reconsider “depriving readers of one of the most stridently liberal voices in the media at a time when liberal values are under ferocious attack [, whine, whine, whine, etc. ]”

“Ted Rall does very interesting work,” [WashingtonPost.com Executive Editor Doug] Feaver said. “Some of it is not funny to an awful lot of people. We decided at the end of the day that it just did not fit the tone we wanted at WashingtonPost.com.”

[”In fact,” he added, “interesting isn’t exactly the right word, unless you find winos who publicly soil their own trousers interesting. Rall’s work is, frankly, indescribably bad. I mean it. To call those cartoons ‘crap’ would be an insult to crap. That’s why we’ve hired the Autorantic Virtual Moonbat.”

The Autorantic Virtual Moonbat, an unthinking machine that randomly generates slanderous and ludicrous assertions from a left-of-sane perspective, has already contributed three cartoons to the Post.

“We’re very happy with the A.V.M.,” said Feaver. “It already shows more variety, better artwork, and more sophisticated humor than that bastard scribbler Rall ever did. Go to hell, Ted.”]

I agree it’s much better than Rall. What do y’all think?

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