Posted on 10/24/2004 4:20:00 AM PDT by lainde
Early signs are hopeful this story will have legs. I think FReeper efforts in emailing conservative news sources will pay off.
I hear the blog that had remarks about it has been reported to the Secret Service, surprise knocks on their doors! LOL
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?
Can you post a link to the article? I'm not familiar with it and your post doesn't give any detail.
Well I did my part. Spent the better part of an hour emailing conservative news sources about the despicable article. Didn't bother with the MSM. Guess I'd better change out of my pajamas as I wait for the "knock at the door":~)
If they ever ran it at all, it would be buried in Section G, Page 275, buried in where the girdle ads used to be.
If anyone deserves to be a_________ted, it's the Media.
Here's the link to the article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/columnists/story/0,,1333748,00.html
I don't know if you are old enough to remember but during the Reagan years the Lee Harvey Oswald reference was a common bumper sticker on cars.
Another was 'Ronald F----ing RayGun'.
There are some really sick people in the 'Diversity and Inclusiveness' crowd out there.
Writing about the assassination of the President is one thing but being part of an organization that plotted to assassinate senators is another. Why does that story not get any coverage?
Nothing on the paper's website this morning to make anyone think they've regretted publishing that column.
Ha! Quite a diatribe...I know a few Democrats who are unhappy with Bush and they sound just like this...When you start talking about facts and issues, they start stuttering for a few seconds and then go back to the name calling...
They then pat each other (or themselves) on the back and walk away apparently thinking they just won a debate over the merits of the candidates...
It occurred to me that Kerry's desperate tactics might just include something along these lines. I was ashamed to even think it, then was frightened because some of his followers would do it in a nannosecond. I can't imagine GW appearing in public until Nov. 2, before those huge crowds. No wonder he helicopters in to stadiums, at least that way there's no long limo ride through towns where rooftops offer Oswald nightmare opportunities.
They may have taken it down, but on the internet nothing dies. It's archived all over the place.
We know the answer to that one. Evil is rampant among the MSM. They're probably on their knees every night praying John Hinckley decides to try impressing Jodie Foster again.
Wonder what their fellow Brits make of that column, especially since some of their citizens were murdered on 9-11, too.
Like you, I'm frustrated about press coverage of John Kerry's presence at that Winter Soldiers meeting. Even if he didn't vote for the plot, why didn't he report it to someone! Along the same lines, if he really believed American soldiers were committing "Ghengis Khan" war crimes, why didn't he report it to someone?! When not busy ignoring stories outright, the press always fails to ask the relevant questions!
The Kerry rally should have lots of signs asking
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