Posted on 10/23/2004 11:16:45 AM PDT by GeorgeBerryman
Edited on 10/23/2004 11:54:15 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
From the article by Guardian columnist Charlie Brooker:
"On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr - where are you now that we need you?"
Co-Founder and Creative Director - Zeppotron
Charlie Brooker has worked as a writer, journalist, cartoonist, TV and radio presenter.
He created TV Go Home, a hugely successful comedy website that was turned into a book and a TV series.
His TV writing credits include the 11 O'Clock Show, Brasseye Special, TV Go Home, Unnovations, and The Art Show. He has a weekly TV column in the Guardian and is currently writing a new Channel 4 series with Chris Morris.
charlie.brooker@zeppotron.com
Come on, us Bush people should not be like this. We should look with compassion upon the anencephalic. (Those born without a brain).
Well, that about sums it up for what real Americans care about Europe...
Compassion defined for this dreg of humanity would be a swift hanging from a sturdy oak,
and this will relieve the burden to society of a parasitic anarchist.
The site is down, thanks to Drudge. : p
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/columnists/story/0,,1333748,00.html
Good letter!Thank you. :^D
I can't even bring up the URL. It says Page Cannot be Displayed.
I guess it was shut down already?
AKA "Murphy's Law"
Does anyone have the rest of the article? I can't get through to the Guardian website.
If you saved the article, could you archive it? They have pulled it.
If he wants to play games like that, then he needs the boot.....its the American Way!!
He looks as stupid as his rant.
Dumb show
Charlie Brooker
Saturday October 23, 2004
The Guardian
Heady times. The US election draws ever nearer, and while the rest of the world bangs its head against the floorboards screaming "Please God, not Bush!", the candidates clash head to head in a series of live televised debates. It's a bit like American Idol, but with terrifying global ramifications. You've got to laugh.
Or have you? Have you seen the debates? I urge you to do so. The exemplary BBC News website (www.bbc.co.uk/news) hosts unexpurgated streaming footage of all the recent debates, plus clips from previous encounters, through Reagan and Carter, all the way back to Nixon versus JFK.
Watching Bush v Kerry, two things immediately strike you. First, the opening explanation of the rules makes the whole thing feel like a Radio 4 parlour game. And second, George W Bush is... well, he's... Jesus, where do you start?
The internet's a-buzz with speculation that Bush has been wearing a wire, receiving help from some off-stage lackey. Screen grabs appearing to show a mysterious bulge in the centre of his back are being traded like Top Trumps. Prior to seeing the debate footage, I regarded this with healthy scepticism: the whole "wire" scandal was just wishful thinking on behalf of some amateur Michael Moores, I figured. And then I watched the footage.
Quite frankly, the man's either wired or mad. If it's the former, he should be flung out of office: tarred, feathered and kicked in the nuts. And if it's the latter, his behaviour goes beyond strange, and heads toward terrifying. He looks like he's listening to something we can't hear. He blinks, he mumbles, he lets a sentence trail off, starts a new one, then reverts back to whatever he was saying in the first place. Each time he recalls a statistic (either from memory or the voice in his head), he flashes us a dumb little smile, like a toddler proudly showing off its first bowel movement. Forgive me for employing the language of the playground, but the man's a tool.
So I sit there and I watch this and I start scratching my head, because I'm trying to work out why Bush is afforded any kind of credence or respect whatsoever in his native country. His performance is so transparently bizarre, so feeble and stumbling, it's a miracle he wasn't laughed off the stage. And then I start hunting around the internet, looking to see what the US media made of the whole "wire" debate. And they just let it die. They mentioned it in passing, called it a wacko conspiracy theory and moved on.
Yet whether it turns out to be true or not, right now it's certainly plausible - even if you discount the bulge photos and simply watch the president's ridiculous smirking face. Perhaps he isn't wired. Perhaps he's just gone gaga. If you don't ask the questions, you'll never know the truth.
The silence is all the more troubling since in the past the US news media has had no problem at all covering other wacko conspiracy theories, ones with far less evidence to support them. (For infuriating confirmation of this, watch the second part of the must-see documentary series The Power Of Nightmares (Wed, 9pm, BBC2) and witness the absurd hounding of Bill Clinton over the Whitewater and Vince Foster non-scandals.)
Throughout the debate, John Kerry, for his part, looks and sounds a bit like a haunted tree. But at least he's not a lying, sniggering, drink-driving, selfish, reckless, ignorant, dangerous, backward, drooling, twitching, blinking, mouse-faced little cheat. And besides, in a fight between a tree and a bush, I know who I'd favour.
On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr - where are you now that we need you?
Evidence reposted for authorities:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/columnists/story/0,,1333748,00.html
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Every once in a while God in his Providence will send your nation some great statesman to save you from your stupidity. A little more than 60 years ago it was Winston Churchill. Without him you would be writing the very same words for a different employer, UK National Socialist (Nazi) Guardian. You would still be the socialist fascist that you are, but you would have the power to send those that disagree with you to their death. Too bad for you that Sir Churchill came to be when he did.
I'm sure that there a lot of folks over there who probably agree with me, tell them to please come to the US. Your culture is finished. You are doing a good job of hastening the death of you country. Please purchase your Turban and Koran. You will have to have them to survive in the society you are promoting. To learn more of your future travel to Islamic Africa. There you will learn that your new religion and nation allows a slavery that is much worse than the brutal evil practice that was thankfully ended in your country and mine many, many years ago. Please train your female friends that they are property, and subject to a sexual frustrated male population that worships a God that hates women. Invest in companies that make machetes and axes. Your future society will use them in abundance against those undesirable Englanders that do not bend their knee to the Islamic masters.
Of course Mr. Churchill (and a lot of American blood) helped deliver your nation from a Nazi fate, but that appears to be only temporary. You see the Islamic leaders of today who are leading you to your fate, are the sons of Islamic leaders who worshiped Herr Hitler. It's great that you are becoming a Nazi without having to learn German. Of course you are probably in classes to learn Arabic. How do you say in Arabic, "you are an evil infidel for disagreeing with me, and now you shall die, or my name is not Ishmael ben Booker." Will it upset you when your Islamic teachers demand that you support the death sentence of your fellow journalist Salmon Rushdie? No, you appear to be a good one, you have already sold your soul to evil. They will love that. I know you 'hope' they don't ask you to be a suicide bomber. You will say "Allah Akbar" with your lips, but in your heart you will say, "Maybe Bush was right." Last but not least I am sorry for your learning disability, so I close with this greeting: "You are a dyslexic wukfod."
PS: Are you trying to hurt Mr Kerry in the US. So far your paper has caused a lot of wavering folks to swing to our President Bush
Vincent
Ohio
USA
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Thanks! I wanted to make sure I had this one available.
This guy needs to be locked up in the same cell with pro-Al Qaeda clerics.
TOM HAGEN:
I'd be like trying to kill the president -- there's no way we can get to him.
MICHAEL CORLEONE
Tom, you know you surprise me -- if anything in this life is certain -- if history has taught us anything -- it's that you can kill anybody.
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