Toles Vs. Pentagon Cartoon Fallout

The story of Tom Toles' cartoon which to make its point used a drawing of a soldier-amputee and garnered a response from the Joint Chiefs of Staff seems to me over save for the mudslinging from sites and blogs both left and right, which is about as interesting to me as watching ink dry.

I apologize if I get this wrong, but I guess there was an semi-interesting footnote where in support of Tom Toles the cartoonist Ted Rall was to appear on one of those idiotic shows where people spew nasty political statements on each other, this one called Hannity and Colmes*. Rall was supposedly lied to by one of the producers of that show in that one of the hosts brought up an equally strident Ted Rall cartoon and started beating on Rall about the subject of that cartoon. What's amazing to me isn't that a television producer of one of these black holes of masturbatory stupidity** might lie to Ted Rall, but that Rall -- with whom I've always been cordial and a person I thought was pretty cagey on political matters -- didn't 1) assume this was going to happen, and 2) would ever think that his support of Tom Toles would be a political positive.

* Which one is the robot played by John Schuck?
** If this offends you, please note that I enjoy watching re-runs of Hunter.
 
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