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Posted on 10/23/2004 8:06:05 PM PDT by steplock
Advocating Assassination
Saturday, October 23, 2004 - 10:02 PM
Overseas Kerry Backers Advocate Assassination of President Bush
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?
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?
I think this got pulled earlier
A message to The Guardian.......Sod OFF YA BLOODY WANKER!
that guy buggers guinea pigs
Wouldn't it be a shame if a terrorist hit The Guardian?
ROFL or he could be Welsh and does sheep. (smirk)
There are lots of reasons for supporting Bush, but one additional, very small reason, is to put it to guys like this lowlife swine, Charlie Brooker.
I am not in favor of assassinations, but I am in favor of punching jerks like this in the nose. Since I can't do that, I would just as soon win the election.
Let's roll!
Just goes to show how very, very far off the deep-end some Bush-whacking Lefties have gone.
> I think this got pulled earlier
Just the dupes. The first instance is still at:
Dumb show (UK's Guardian Cries Out for Bush Assassination)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1254550/posts
Has the Guardian indeed pulled the story?
Apologized?
Fired the hack who wrote it?
Unless there are 3 yes answers, this will
be all over talk radio on Monday.
There is more than 1 person working at The Guardian.
I haven't heard any updates.
It better be talked about tomorrow. It's outrageous.
ok ok.....SOD OFF YA BENT TOSSERS TOO! (smile)
The sheer number of whacked-out on the left is reason enough to vote for Bush. THEY are truly scarry.
I already heard the northern alliance guys talking about it this afternoon.
Come over here and take a look at GWB in person instead of listening to all the BS sent overseas by the WUOM (washed up old media). Then these questions will be answered.
whoops - missed the first posting! I searched the wrong headline.
But on the other hand, I missed seeing the first one so probably did many others. That is the ONE bad thing about FreeRepublic ... too much info at times (not that I'm complaining)
;>)
Never forget: THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS NOTHING BUT CORRUPT SCUM.
Probably lice.
Besides, NOBODY ASKED YOU!
No kidding!
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