Ted Rall's cartoons and opinion pieces were all the rage when he was attacking George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and American soldiers. But now that there's a man in the White House the press absolutely adore, the once syndicated polemicist claims he's having a hard time getting anyone to publish his work: In the past, editorial rejections had numerous causes: low budgets, lack of space, an editor who simply preferred another creator's work over yours. Now there' s a new cause for refusal: Too tough on the president. I've heard that from enough “liberal” websites and print publications to consider it a significant trend. A sample of recent rejections, each from editors at different left-of-center media outlets: