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October 20, 2004

Afternoon Chuckle

Posted by Bill

The British Guardian's letter-writing campaign to hapless American rubes in Ohio gets results! Not exactly the results that they expected, but results nonetheless:

UK anti-Bush letters spark outrage

The Fox national cable television network tore into the newspaper and even John Kerry's own Democrats expressed horror at the campaign.

"We all feel it is not a good idea. I think it was unwise. It is so poorly thought-out," said Sharon Manitta, spokeswoman in Britain for Democrats Abroad.

But the newspaper, whose cartoons regularly portray President George W. Bush as a semi-literate ape, was unrepentant.

Of course. Heh.

(Via Wizbang)

UPDATE: As Rusty says, not funny, funnay!"

Posted by Bill at October 20, 2004 01:10 PM | TrackBack (2)

Comments

It's hysterical how clueless these people are about Americans.

I hope they write a hundred thousand letters.

Posted by: Textbook Stupidity at October 20, 2004 01:22 PM

Rats, I so wished I lived in a battleground state so I could get souvenir letters from intellectual giants like George Michael, Morrissey, & Coldplay

Posted by: jeff at October 20, 2004 01:33 PM

Speaking of which . . . where's Puce?

Posted by: CroolWurld at October 20, 2004 01:55 PM

BTW, have u been running your Tom Maguire theory past Patterico?

Posted by: jeff at October 20, 2004 01:56 PM

Shhhhhh. Keep a lid on that jeff - it's an exclusive!

Posted by: Bill from INDC at October 20, 2004 02:00 PM

Somewhat off topic but...

What do you plan to do if your polling place is being monitored my UN officials when you go to vote on November 2nd?

Posted by: Dr. DRE at October 20, 2004 03:30 PM

Dr. Dre:
Why... video tape them, of course.

Posted by: Al at October 20, 2004 03:31 PM

Dre...

Good question. If I can identify them, I will most likely tell them off. Not rudely, of course. I'll go more for the subtle rib-poking. :)

Posted by: Textbook Stupidity at October 20, 2004 04:01 PM

You'll notice that all of the protest emails sent to the Guardian, that the Guardian published, were of the foul-mouthed variety.

I know for a fact that not all of the protest emails sent to the Guardian were like that, so why did they only publish the ones that made Americans look like rednecks, hmmmm?

Gosh, maybe they have an....agenda. Or maybe they're just idiots. No, wait, they're idiots with an agenda.

Posted by: bkayel at October 20, 2004 04:30 PM

Don't tell me, tell Patterico

Posted by: jeff at October 20, 2004 04:52 PM

Well I'm a proud redneck who thinks that the foul mouth variety is mouch more effective with the Brits. They are obviously scared _less of cowboy types so you add a little color to the language and you've got those Guardian liberals walking around in Depends. At least one hopes that is the case.

I chose to sound rather enthused about their project, I then invited myself for a vist into the addressee's office, and then dropped a nice juicy bomb squarely on their desk!

Posted by: vanyogan at October 21, 2004 10:37 AM

- As an ex dyed in the wool rural Buckeye I tried to warn them....

- I sincerely hope the Guardian people used laytex gloves to open those return letters....

- Word has it this was just a publicity stunt feilded by the Guardian marketing people in order to shore up flagging circulation.... Apparently their main credo is lamenting the pass of the Soviet Union along with many of the aging liberal readership....

Posted by: Hunter at October 21, 2004 09:40 PM