Just a Joke?
The hypocrites of the AIM newsgroup never cease to amaze me.
http://cnn.aimtoday.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20041025%2F1402919596.htm&sc=1103
Paper Apologizes for Assassination Remark
LONDON (AP) - A British newspaper apologized Monday for a weekend article in which a writer appeared to call for the assassination of President Bush. In a regular column in The Guardian newspaper's Saturday TV listings magazine, Charlie Brooker described Bush in scathing terms, and concluded: ``John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr., where are you now that we need you?''
Booth assassinated President Lincoln, Oswald killed President Kennedy and Hinckley wounded President Reagan.
The Guardian's apology described Brooker's comments as ``flippant and tasteless'' but said they were ``intended as an ironic joke, not as a call to action - an intention he believed regular readers of his humorous column would understand.''
There you have it, folks. If it’s Anti-Bush, it’s skewed and put in big letters on the front page. If it’s Pro-Bush, it’s skewed and put in big letters on the front page and people like me find it embarrassing. If you haven’t noticed by now that the article’s title makes it look like an actual death threat but the truth is it was just a joke, now you know.
It was the second time this month the newspaper was embroiled in a trans-Atlantic political controversy. Previously, it invited readers to write letters to unaffiliated voters in Clark County, Ohio, a swing state, about the importance of the Nov. 2 election. Clark County contains the city of Springfield.
The newspaper's Web site said letter-writers were free to support either Bush or Sen. John Kerry but noted that a Guardian poll showed 47 percent of Britons backed Kerry and 16 percent supported Bush.
After being overwhelmed by responses, most of them hostile, the newspaper ended the campaign after their Web site was broken into by hackers.
Hmm, a bunch of dumb Brits voice their opinion like it matters in our country and get hacked by Pro-Bush Nazis. As a Republican, I find these guys embarrassing to my party as well. This sort of thing rarely happens coming from Republicans in comparison to how many time the Democrats pull shit like this, but when it does…fuck’em.
http://cnn.aimtoday.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20041025%2F1402919596.htm&sc=1103
Paper Apologizes for Assassination Remark
LONDON (AP) - A British newspaper apologized Monday for a weekend article in which a writer appeared to call for the assassination of President Bush. In a regular column in The Guardian newspaper's Saturday TV listings magazine, Charlie Brooker described Bush in scathing terms, and concluded: ``John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr., where are you now that we need you?''
Booth assassinated President Lincoln, Oswald killed President Kennedy and Hinckley wounded President Reagan.
The Guardian's apology described Brooker's comments as ``flippant and tasteless'' but said they were ``intended as an ironic joke, not as a call to action - an intention he believed regular readers of his humorous column would understand.''
There you have it, folks. If it’s Anti-Bush, it’s skewed and put in big letters on the front page. If it’s Pro-Bush, it’s skewed and put in big letters on the front page and people like me find it embarrassing. If you haven’t noticed by now that the article’s title makes it look like an actual death threat but the truth is it was just a joke, now you know.
It was the second time this month the newspaper was embroiled in a trans-Atlantic political controversy. Previously, it invited readers to write letters to unaffiliated voters in Clark County, Ohio, a swing state, about the importance of the Nov. 2 election. Clark County contains the city of Springfield.
The newspaper's Web site said letter-writers were free to support either Bush or Sen. John Kerry but noted that a Guardian poll showed 47 percent of Britons backed Kerry and 16 percent supported Bush.
After being overwhelmed by responses, most of them hostile, the newspaper ended the campaign after their Web site was broken into by hackers.
Hmm, a bunch of dumb Brits voice their opinion like it matters in our country and get hacked by Pro-Bush Nazis. As a Republican, I find these guys embarrassing to my party as well. This sort of thing rarely happens coming from Republicans in comparison to how many time the Democrats pull shit like this, but when it does…fuck’em.
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