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October 22, 2004
Clueless Leftist Brits Raise White Flag

Posted by Bill

Another Friday titter:

The Guardian yesterday ran up the white flag and called a halt to "Operation Clark County", the newspaper's ambitious scheme to recruit thousands of readers to persuade American voters in a swing state to kick out President George W Bush in next month's election.

The cancellation of the project came 24 hours after the first of some 14,000 letters from Guardian readers began arriving in Clark County. The missives led to widespread complaints about foreign interference in a US election.

It also prompted a surge of indignant local voters calling the county's Republican party offering to volunteer for Mr Bush.

Imagine.

Posted by Bill at October 22, 2004 04:50 PM | TrackBack (8)

Comments

Hey Guardian, thanks for doing your part to promote a Bush win in Ohio! Heh.

For Britons to think that someone from the midfreakingwest would welcome an unsolicited opinion from a foreigner regarding something uniquely US-based is just so breathtakingly, heartstoppingly, jawdroppingly stupid I can't even believe it. I am aghast. And secretly amused. Yes. So much for the myth of inherent wisdom and worldliness everyone-in-the-world-but-Americans posess...

Posted by: willow at October 22, 2004 05:12 PM

It's like that Louisiana sheriff getting involved in the James Bond escapades, except in reverse, and not intentionally funny. Funny, just not intentionally.

Posted by: Joe R. the Unabrewer at October 22, 2004 05:18 PM

And secretly amused.

Secretly?

Posted by: Bill from INDC at October 22, 2004 05:23 PM

Okay. Overtly. But secretly there's much more amusement where that came from.

Posted by: willow at October 22, 2004 05:25 PM

The rest of the world - even the rest of the free world - just doesn't get how downright independent Americans are, do they? This might be a messy, dirty, litigated-to-the-death election, but it's OUR messy, dirty, litigated-to-the death election.
My one British friend here recently finished her citizenship requirements. She is voting for Bush. She gets the most important thing. "I don't always agree with him," she told me recently, "but he's consistent."

Posted by: MyssiAnn at October 22, 2004 05:51 PM

My favorite part is Mr. Katz acknowledging being widely warned that "this will certainly garner more votes for George Bush" but his paper "didn't believe it."

Of course they didn't. No one they know would vote for George Bush.

Posted by: Lastango at October 22, 2004 05:55 PM

I'm a little disappointed they caught on to the fact that their efforts were having the opposite effect than they intended, as quickly as they did. Another week of that and they would have handed Ohio to Bush all by themselves.

Posted by: Swede at October 22, 2004 06:30 PM

The strategy had potential, but the tactics were wrong. Why target the rubes in Clark County? I live in Franklin County, home to countless state bureaucrats and hordes of sophisticated intellectuals at The Ohio State University. They are desperate for guidance and approval from yellow-tooth Brits. They need encouragement from the U.K. to get their moonbat butts to the polling stations November 2. The Guardian had a good idea -- they just muffed the execution.

Posted by: FormerTexan at October 22, 2004 07:06 PM

Apparently they've jettisoned their plans to take their four winners to Clark County for some last minute campaigning. I wonder if this constitutes a disappointment for the winners?

I confess to being a little relieved. It might look a bit bad if they came down with lead poisoning during the election.

Posted by: Angie Schultz at October 22, 2004 07:21 PM

How'd the Brits like it if we wrote letters to their congress urging them to empose an excessive tax on their country's tea and stamps? Their teeth would turn yellow with rage.

Posted by: Bucktowndusty at October 22, 2004 07:53 PM

The strategy had potential, but the tactics were wrong. Why target the rubes in Clark County? I live in Franklin County, home to countless state bureaucrats and hordes of sophisticated intellectuals at The Ohio State University.

And Easton.

Posted by: cheshirecat at October 22, 2004 11:37 PM

Easton. Of course. Any Friday night at the Easton Town Center you can see scores of fashionable people who are amenable to guidance from our yellow-tooth brethren across the pond.

Posted by: FormerTexan at October 23, 2004 12:36 AM

In his amazingly "British influenced" way of mocking understatement, Mark Steyn points this out to them, albeit belatedly..

http://www.steynonline.com/index.cfm

One of "those" wankers goes on about, see here chap, that's like shooting the burglar, why, totally uncivilized, etc etc..
Yeppers, and yur point is???

Which movie was it I saw earlier here--3 "hillbilly" kids sitting on a box out by a pump
..."and on the third day, gawd Created th' remington bolt action rifle"...

its a 'Murican thang, you woont unnerstand, bloke...
RISLMAO

and the dry response of that Ohio bureaucrat..we fought the revolution here for a reason....priceless

don't know about Ohio, but in MY neck o the woods--we just make sure you've "violated" the property line clearly..heh, heh

Posted by: Ignore the Man Behind the Curtain at October 23, 2004 02:35 AM