Have I mentioned that Blogger sucks? Yes? Well, it do. Bears repeating.

But that's not what I'm writing about. So Ted Rall, who apparently is a soi-disant progressive cartoonist, drew this cartoon which was up on the Washington Post's website (I'm linking to my friend's website, and you have to scroll down a little ways). So but anyway, predictably a bunch of advocacy groups and parents wrote to complain, including yours truly. I got one response from the WaPo ombudsman, then this from someone at Customer Service:

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Response (FalkeyE) - 11/16/2004 03:20 PM
Dear Ms. Parent-of-a-Disabled-Child,

Thank you for your comments regarding the November 8th cartoon by Ted Rall. After review from our editors the cartoon has been removed from the site. Our editors have made the decision to stop posting Mr. Rall's cartoons on our site at this time.

Thank you again for taking the time to send us your feedback. Please feel free to contact me if there is anything else that I may be able to assist you with. Thank you for your patience and have a good day.

Sincerely,
Elizabeth Falkey
Customer Care
washingtonpost.com

Customer (Michael Golden) - 11/12/2004 11:32 AM
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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:16:15 -0500
From: Mike Getler
To: michael.golden@wpni.com





Mike, I've answered some of these but there are dozens and I don't have time to answer them. You should put something on the Web to tell people. This stuff hurts

the paper even though it's not in the paper.

The have a nice day part is nice. And I mean, yeah, it got a response, but it sort of missed the point. I'm not so interested in disappearing Ted Rall; I'm interested in changing perceptions, and sending him into the ether doesn't accomplish that. The whole episode is gone: the cartoon is gone, there's no apology, there's nothing.

I'm thinking I'll need to write to this Elizabeth Falkley person....