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UK Daily Mirror's "dumb" headline takes on new meaning (vanity?)
FR/Wikipedia/Daily Mirror ^ | 4th January 2005 | me

Posted on 01/04/2005 4:19:14 AM PST by William of Orange

Shortly after the election, the UK's Daily Mirror headlined: "How can 59,054,087 People be so Dumb?"

now that the vote counting is done, it seems that this headline has taken on a whole different meaning than what the UK Daily Mirror intended, look here for vote totals: election 2004 results

George W. Bush 62,028,194 50.74% 286 electoral votes
John F. Kerry 59,027,612 48.28% 251 electoral votes


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: dailymirror; dumb; johnkerryvoters
I feel the headline should have been: "How can 59,027,612 People be so Dumb?", the Daily Mirror almost correctly predicted the number of votes for John F. Kerry!

moderators, if you feel this should go, then by all means delete it, but I think this thread has merit because of the gloatfest that we are rightfully having here! And I think that the Daily Mirror printing almost the number of Kerry voters is very funny! How can so many people be so dumb (to vote for sKerry) indeed! LOL!

1 posted on 01/04/2005 4:19:14 AM PST by William of Orange
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To: William of Orange

Thats pretty funny


2 posted on 01/04/2005 4:20:49 AM PST by GeronL (I am NOT the real bin Laden)
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To: William of Orange

LOL, good catch! With hindsight, their headline is entirely accurate.


3 posted on 01/04/2005 4:26:58 AM PST by jocon307 (Ann Coulter was right)
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To: William of Orange

How can English tabloids use such an insulting headline, and pretend to be taken seriously, when one takes into account that the majority of the English people are infatuated with a footballer who is the closest example of a dysfunctional individual?


4 posted on 01/04/2005 5:56:50 AM PST by alekboyd
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