Ted Rall Mulls Lawsuit Against Neocon Coulter

Kurt Nimmo
Feb. 15, 2006

It appears editorial cartoonist Ted Rall may sue the loudmouth fascist Ann Coulter for a “provocative remark” she made last week. “Coulter reportedly said Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.: ‘Iran is soliciting cartoons on the Holocaust. So far, only Ted Rall, Garry Trudeau, and The New York Times have made submissions’ …. Rall announced on his blog that he would look into taking legal action against Coulter if readers of his blog wanted him to—and if they pledged the $6,000 needed to draft and file a lawsuit in New York.”

Rall writes on his blog:

A lot of people want to see Coulter held to account for her disgusting statements, and that’s gratifying. It may be an “honor” to be considered influential enough to be referenced at a national gathering of right-wingers but being smeared as some sort of treasonous Holocaust deniar is sickening. These are the kinds of statements that prompt Republican bloggers to casually claim that I’m anti-Semitic (!) when nothing could be further from the truth. As a student of history who specialized in World War II I am not only completely aware of the monstrous scale and unique place of the Holocaust in modern history but terrified that genocide could happen again–if ideologues like Coulter manage to seize the complete power they crave. Call me straight, call me gay, call me an asshole, but if you call me a Holocaust revisionist I won’t take it lying down.

Get used to it, Ted. I am called a Holocaust “deniar” on a regular basis—and I never write about the Holocaust—and an “anti-Semite” for criticizing Israel (even though the people who run Israel are not even Semites). One particular loathsome piece of human detritus in Israel is in the habit of making up countless lies about me (for instance, that I am connected to the Barnes Review, supposedly both a historical revisionist and Holocaust denial magazine). Ted may dislike being called an anti-Semite, but at least his wife’s name was not hijacked (far as I know) and used to write obscene and slanderous comments on various message boards. Coulter’s comment is nothing compared to having Betar fascists call you at work and threaten you.

It would be nice to raise the money to sue the people who continually stalk and harass me (one is enlisted in the U.S. military), in particular one violently insane blogger who urges his psychopathic friends to pay me (and others) a visit and execute me as a traitor. In order to do this, I’d have to ask people for money every day of the week.

Ted Rall should realize that he is on to something when people like Coulter call him a Holocaust “deniar.” He should wear it as a badge of honor, since anybody with two brain cells to rub together would realize he is not a Nazi or Holocaust revisionist.