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?"

Excerpted

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]

[bootless]

Thanks for that - I see that BOB is gone now.

So, BOB, in case you're still reading this after having been Zotted, advocating assassination is indeed highly illegal.

Freedom of speech has nothing to do with it, and you should know that.

[Khurkris]

No need for that...just hire 3 locals from the docklands and have then do a bit of kneecap work. That will make his dancing days just a memory. They tend to be tight-lipped and do good work for the money.

[MeekOneGOP]

Take action and report this to the FBI!

Actually, I already did send the FBI a note with a link to this UK article.

I hope those arseholes are already feeling the heat, too!

[Merlinator]

I just sent off a post to the Guardian suggesting to this moron he should get what he was advocating in his column. I wrote him that he was lucky we are an ocean apart. I hope the CIA, Interpol and FBI put the screws on this idiot.

[PhilDragoo]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/columnists/story/0,,1333748,00.html

UK Guardian's Charlie Brooker, October 23, 2004:
"John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr - where are you now that we need you?"

The British Embassy in Washington, DC is 202-588-6500

Their press & public affairs Steve is 202-588-6593

Steve's voice mail took my call, but the Embassy O for Operator was answered--eventually--by the courteous night security, suggesting Monday morning would be good.

This should be made part of everyone's daily consciousness through Tuesday, November 2, at the very least.

There is no red line for the Left in its terrible hour of death, screaming for Bolshevik barbarism to save its silly ass.

[CWOJackson]

John Hinckley should be pardoned, a plane ticket to London and the (Photoshop) photos of Charlie Brooker and Jodie Foster.

[Merlinator]

I went to the Guardian website and went to contacts. I fired off a very livid flaming email to the politics/editor department

[KwasiOwusu]

"Your posts are beginning to show a distinct anti-Brit feel" You don't say! Of course my post have an anti-British feeling! Nothing I have posted here comes even close to the amount of anti-American bile and , hate and viciousness that has emanating from the British for the past 200 years at least. Americans have no alternative but to give these British losers the same medicine they have been dishing out to Americans so liberally. "This was one person writing the article not the British nation" You are kidding right? Just one person huh? I have seen similar stories from nearly every British media outlet (apart from a few) and personally heard similar remarks from plenty of Englishmen. What this creep from the Guardian said today is nothing compared to the amount of hate I have seen written in the British newspaper called The Mirror, which has at least 5 times h circulation of the Guardian! "For your information the British monarchy are figure heads. They have no power over any UK national and do not "rule" the country" You are just as funny as Charlie Brooker, dude. You assume I don't know about the role of your queen because I am an American. Well I do, having lived in Britain for a long time before. The queen is still the Head of State of a Britain, titular head or not. The queen continues to be the one that opens Parliament by reading the Prime Minister's legislative program for the year. The queen is the leader of Britain no mater how you twist it. That's why the British government pays her so much money. Bottom line, the British media like the BBC continue to (to use your word) worship" the queen in their commentary during any state occasions, because they think its part of British culture. We in America "worship" no man, but God. Its part of our culture. How about that? "Please feel free to denounce the individual but refrain from nation bashing diatribe." For someone who supports The Guardian in their assassination plot to kill our president, its funny you should be talking about diatribes. You British are the masters of diatribes. Just have a look at your stupid papers in their anti-American rants since 9/1 will you? Go send that message to Mr Charlie Brooker, not me!

[LoneStarC]

Writing the idiot, Brooker would only pump up his ego.

A greater satisfaction is writing a proper expression of disgust to the British Embassy in Washington, DC.

The address is: washi@fco.gov.uk

May not do much good, but it sure felt good! Maybe if we "freeped" the ambassador??

[KwasiOwusu]

"Exactly. There are many in the U.K. that are probably just as outraged at the Guardian as we are right now over this." Ant there are even millions MORE in Britain who AGREE with with The Guardian. I have lived in Britain before dude.

[LoneStarC]

Re: Founders did not want Democracy -- You can say that again! There is a lengthy discussion of this in the "Federalish Papers."

A Democracy was considered worse than a monarchy!

[KwasiOwusu]

"By the way, the Guardian has a readership of a couple of hundred thousand, whilst the pro-American Sun has a readership of at least 4 million" # 1, The Guardian has a circulation of at least 300,000/ and # 2, The Mirror, which hates America even more than Al Quaeda has a circulation of at least 2.5 million! # 3, I have personally heard comments like those in this article from mainstream British lots of times. Most British basically are full of hate not just towards America, but towards lots of other peoples as well. Period.

[KwasiOwusu]

"So you thin the FBI has (or should have) jurisdiction in Britain. Sorry fat Yank not gonna happen." Yeah? Thats what the Secret Service and the CIA are there for, Mr Stupid Englishman with yellow teeth and smelly breadth. Its their business to put terrorists like your Mr Brooker out of business!

[Merlinator]

I just sent all of this to Milwaukee radio talk show host Charlie Sykes. I pointed out the relationship between the Guardian and MoveOn.org. and suggested that if the two are affiliated, then MoveOn is guilty by association of advocating violence against our president. I hope he will get this out to the public. I hope this worm finds himself out of a job and being interogated by the police. He can run from the Bloggers, but he can't hide!

[KwasiOwusu]

"Charlie, I've sen you before. Drunken sot, you're a soccer hooligan, a piece of decadent English slime masquerading as a human being. You're the guy who is always arrested after a soccer game (not FOOTBALL Genius!} for beating some innocent passerby to death in your drunken stupor. Sure, I know you! You're English! You have the IQ of low wattage appliance bulb, you've never used a deoderant in you entire miserable life, the only sex you've ever had was with your Dad. Oh yeah, I know you. You're a moron, a genetic mutant that should be kept in a zoo. Oh, wait, England is a ZOO!!!!!!" BRAVO! Couldn't have put it better myself! :)

[tomahawk]

Calling for the assassination of the American President renders this POS a legitimate target.

[daybreakcoming]

metafilter makes the DUmmies look like milquetoast

[mykroar]

I just e-mailed Powell at the U.S. State Department page. I know we don't have any authority across the pond, but maybe they can have someone over thee look into this.

Secretary of State E-mail Page

This is unbelievable

[daybreakcoming]

This is good and when it comes back up - we should crash it again.
Great Britain had me fooled for many years into thinking their people had some public class. If they tolerate this kind of vomit - they are way less than I thought.

[mykroar]

Here is the e-mail for the Guardian - if you think it's worth the trouble:

unlimited@guardianunlimited.co.uk