The twisted humor of Ted Rall

Ted Rall's latest scrawlings have excited quite the blogburst.  LT Smash, Michelle Malkin - basically anyone who isn't a raving military-hating lunatic is pretty upset by his portrayal of US soldiers as sadistic killers.

The Posse confess ourselves to be mildly amused.  The notion that Iraq war veterans barge into homes, torture their dates, indimidate their prospective in-laws and then murder those they break up with (using air strikes, no less!) is beyond parody.

Actually, that's not true.  It is a parody - of the anti-war left.

This is the sort of humor one would expect South Park to produce to illustrate the hate and venom of the left - not something the left should produce on its own.

Rall has made it abundantly clear that he hates the military - though he will no doubt claim that the war is making these people crazy and that he has nothing but sympathy for them.  But that merely makes him gutless.  It's like the Vietnam canard that all our soldiers were war criminals but it wasn't their fault, it was Nixon's, or LBJ's or something like that.

All of this is a side issue, though.  The real issue is that this comic strip isn't even close to funny.

It's poorly drawn and utterly humorless.  Does Rall himself laugh at this as he draws it?  Does anyone? 

Sure, some folks may laugh, but it will be a snort of derision, not admiring amusement.

Dilbert makes people really laugh.  They laugh so much they paste the strips on their cube walls, email them around and share the mirth.

Reading a Dilbert compilation can induce severe stomach pain from laughter.

Ted Rall can't possibly compare to that kind of humor.

So what we have is a strip that isn't funny, doesn't produce anything new and actively offends most people who read it.

It's pathetic and degrading - to Rall, more than anyone else.

This is a cry for attention, the equivalent of a child wetting itself to get noticed.  Rall is like the kid who eats worms on the playground - yes, everyone thinks he's disgusting, but for a moment he's the center of attention, and that's all that matters.

Truly pathetic.

Comments

[Sithkitten]

"Reading a Dilbert compilation can induce severe stomach pain from laughter."

So, it does have something in common...it can induce severe stomach pain...just not the same kind.

[Ken]

Ted Rall: How Allah prepares the way for the victory of The Faithful.