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Ted Rall Biography

Frederick Theodore "Ted" Rall III (born August 26, 1963) is an American columnist, syndicated editorial cartoonist, and author. His political cartoons often appear in a multi-panel comic-strip format and frequently blend comic-strip and editorial-cartoon conventions. The cartoons appear in approximately 100 newspapers around the United States. He was president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists from 2008 to 2009.

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At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.

Boss, Bosses, Loathe, Pretty, Respectful, Workers

If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

Good, Long, Skills, Writing

I was reading through all these NSA programs that Snowden has revealed, and one of the ones that fascinated me was that smart TVs can be used to look at you in your room. That is totally like the telescreen from 1984. It's not sort of like it, it's not a lot like it, it is it. And the ability of the NSA to turn on your cell phone, even if it's powered down, and listen to you in your home - that's insane to me. People had been warning that 1984 was just around the corner. Well, it has arrived, and Snowden has proven that.

Fascinated, Home, Listen, Phone, Reading, Smart

On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.

Pakistan, Planets, State, States, Virulently

Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.

Close, Friends, Friendship, Love, Want

When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.

Bird, Birds, Expression, Eye, Eyes, Tilt

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

Boss, Firsts, Moron, Saying, Steps

Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.

American, Confused, Fans, Sought, Thinking

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

Analysis, Direct, Like, Right, Use, Writing

Bernie Sanders is an impressive guy. His authenticity and his credibility stem precisely from the fact that he has been marginalized from the mainstream political process for decades. He's been in the US Senate, yeah, he has had a life in politics for thirty years, but he's never really been able to get anything done. He's the only socialist in the US Congress. He's not a Democrat or a Republican, but he's always been saying the same things about income inequality, in particular.

Authenticity, Done, Guy, Marginalized, Political

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.

Consciously, Influenced, Parody, Unless, Work

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

Graphic, Literary, Storytelling, Thinking, Together, Writing

That's what comics journalism does better than anything else: you can get a feeling of what it was like. Like Scott McCloud says, especially with a simple drawing style, you can project yourself into the image, and imagine yourself having those experiences.

Feelings, Image, Like, Simple, Style

Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.

1995, Hated, Jobs, Personally, Stills, Things

What people don't seem to ever understand is that any infrastructure that exists under your regime, in your current government, will be appropriated and inherited by the next regime. I mean, the KGB came out of the NKVD which came out of the Tsarist version of the same thing. And now, the FSB operates out of the old KGB building in Moscow. The infrastructure remains exactly the same. There's a little bit of reshuffling of personnel, and that's it. The way to make sure that there's no FSB today would have been for the Tsar to not have built an infrastructure for it in the 1800s.

Built, Exists, Mean, People, Today, Tsar

Here in the US, we've built this insane infrastructure of oppression. When it's not run by a Barack Obama - who, by the way, I don't think is a perfect president - but by someone who is off-kilter, like a Carly Fiorina, that could be dangerous.

Carly, Infrastructure, Perfect, President, Running, Thinking

Most people don't know how to tell stories.

People, Stories, Brussel Sprouts, Know, Tell

Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own.

Left, Leftist, Leftists, Think, Thinking, Though

I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.

Enjoy, Good, Jazz, Think, Thinking

I would like to fire every cop in America and start from scratch. We don't need as many of them, and the whole model of policing is completely off the rails. For the most part, the police are engaged in very little protection of the public. That's probably 5 percent of what they do. The rest of it is writing tickets.

Completely, Part, Percent, Police, Protection, Writing

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