Dumb show (UK's Guardian Cries Out for Bush Assassination)

The Guardian (UK) ^ | 10/23/04 | Charlie Brooker

[GeorgeBerryman]

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?"

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To: GeorgeBerryman

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

93 posted on 10/23/2004 2:42:15 PM EDT by kcvl

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[kcvl]

[SevenofNine]

Hey I wonder does UK have laws threated world leader life which is no no here in the US

IF NOT

I bet NY Times wouldn't mind getting emails from us Americans

[Terriergal]

Making threats at all will get you in trouble with the fcc.

[Mears]

Bump

[Arizona Carolyn]

Can we do anything in Britan? Tony Blair must be mortified at the actions of the Guardian in the past few weeks. No wonder so many Brits hate us? We treat Blair like a king here and they try to kill our President over there?? What's wrong with this picture?

And to make matters worse, Jimmy Carter doesn't think we should have fought the Revolutionary War!!!!

[Arizona Carolyn]

Yep, he is... Remember the Jason Blair fiasco -- and the editor lost his job over it? He went to London and runs the Guardian now! The GOOD paper there is the Telegraph.

[FortHancock]

Go to their newsblog and post comments there. Guardian Newsblog

[Tax Government]

I think democrats would have fought for King George in the American revolutionary war.

[MeekOneGOP]

I'm sure it got crashed by the huge number of people trying to get there.

I bet that's right. I just tried to get there and couldn't as well. I get an error.

I could get to the article earlier today .....

[RobertSacamano]

HAHA and you people say 'turnabout is fair play'.

They don't like it up em!

[Yaelle]

How utterly criminal and disrespectful. England, what if we had a columnist in one of our papers BEGGING for someone to come and off Prince Charles? Or Tony Blair?

This columnist and the paper should receive a visit from the FBI immediately.

Freedom of speech does not allow for calling "Fire" in a crowded theatre, nor does it allow for calling for assassinations.

Good L-rd, what is this world coming to????

[5050 no line]

Its not a paper, its a rag.

[RobertSacamano]

This columnist and the paper should receive a visit from the FBI immediately. So you thin the FBI has (or should have) jurisdiction in Britain. Sorry fat Yank not gonna happen.

[thelastvirgil]

If Mr. Booker really feels this way, he should be set up with a meeting with Zarqawi. We would then be treated to a video of one sorry, deserving a$$hole begging and pleading to be saved from his inevitable beheading.

His politics and hatred for Dubya would not save him, and those that feel as he does might learn a valuable lesson about good and evil.

[RobertSacamano]

If Mr. Booker really feels this way

Brooker is the name, at least try to disguise your ignorance with the available tools.

[bootless]

And not only that, the FAR left newsletter CLG ("Citizens for Legitimate Government), compiled and partly written by someone named Lori Price in Bristol, CT, ran this at the top of their newsletter. So she is complicit as well, particularly because she highlighted the offending question in bold red.

Absolutely sickening.

[RobertSacamano]

What is sickening is that U.S. citizens think that they are the only people in the world entitled to the benefit of free speech.

[muir_redwoods]

It's just too bad for these EU-Niks that they don't figure into the important questions of the day. That's left to the grown-ups and we'll handle it ourselves, thank you.

Now we should tell him to stop being a naughty little boy and run along to bed.

[rang1995]

This election has caused me to lose so many EX friends and famil;y members,who would quote the guardian and BBc etc..i feel like the south did before the civil war..i have had it!!!

[mrsmel]

I am not anti-Britain, and I know full well that there are plenty of British who understand the urgency of the war on terror and that President Bush is the natural choice in this war,alongside Tony Blair(who I support,even though he's a liberal in the American sense,because of his strong support,even at his political risk).

But you can't deny that at least in perception,a majority of Britons seem to be anti-war and anti-Bush(not neccessarily anti-American,though that seems to be coming along and will probably become full-fledged if President Bush is re-elected).If these voices get the upper hand politically,which is more likely than not,appeasement will be the order of the day,and terrorists can't be appeased.

If I begin to see the same thing in America(which is not impossible,though we seem to be holding back the tide right now-but I don't believe we will forever),the same fate will befall us.And at the risk of undermining any credibility I may have,I must say that as a Bible-believing Christian,I feel it's not a question of if but when.