Help Ted Rall Bitchslap Ann Coulter (?)

For those who haven't heard, Ted Rall is contemplating suing Ann Coulter for libel.

In the midst of her usual hate-filled screed, she wrote:

The mass violence by Muslims over some cartoons reminds us why we have to worry when countries like Iran start talking about having nukes. Iran is led by a lunatic who makes a big point of denying the Holocaust. Indeed, in response to the Muhammad cartoons, one Iranian newspaper is soliciting cartoons about the Holocaust. (So far the only submissions have come from Ted Rall, Garry Trudeau and The New York Times.)

Is that libel?

Rall writes:

As far as I can tell, no one has ever sued Coulter for slander or libel. That may change. My attorney tells me I have an actionable claim on two counts, for both the CPAC speech and the column. It wouldn't be an open-and-shut case, but there are precedents in my favor.

FOLLOW THE LINK BELOW WHERE YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE A PLEDGE

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Ted Rall is asking for pledges on his blog, to support a lawsuit. So I thought posting this might help.

The post on Sunday, February 26, 2006 has instructions about where to send a pledge email


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Definition of Slander:

A type of defamation. Slander is an untruthful oral (spoken) statement about a person that harms the person's reputation or standing in the community. Because slander is a tort (a civil wrong), the injured person can bring a lawsuit against the person who made the false statement. If the statement is made via broadcast media -- for example, over the radio or on TV -- it is considered libel, rather than slander, because the statement has the potential to reach a very wide audience

p.s. I picked a Tom Tomorrow strip about Coulter instead of one by Ted Rall. I think TT is funnier.