The Guardianistas are at it again. After getting blasted by irate Americans for trying to influence the election in a heavily populated county of a crucial swing state, The Guardian is gleefully posting some of the more obscene responses (along with the occasional sympathetic one) to their experiment, in which their British readers were given the addresses of people living in Clark Country, Ohio so they could persuade their dumb American cousins to vote against Bush.
Now anyone who reads The Guardian (Britain's answer to The New York Times) can see for themselves what horrible and uncouth people those Yanks really are. We swear and curse, we call them "limeys," and we poke fun at their stereotypically rotten teeth. They were just trying to educate us and we lashed out at them! Poor them, bad us!
Now, imagine the furor caused and the torrent of insults lobbed at Americans if they gathered the addresses of people in Britain and encouraged them to vote for Tony Blair in 2005. Can you say, "You interfering Americans!" Lots of Brits would.
I take my hat off to the letter writer from California who warned, "I want to advise you that you and anyone that participates in subverting the US presidential election can be criminally charged and perhaps even charged as spies." Perhaps we need a new Alien and Sedition Act!
Furthermore, read the content of the letter encouraged by The Guardian - all the sentiment about don’t be ashamed, the majority of you didn't vote for Bush, and we hope you can return to "the other" America, the one we all love and respect.
Yep, the "other" America: the America that will let the rest of the world decide what is safest for it. Face it, The Guardian and its readership asked for the degradation they received.
Article comments
1 - andy marsh
Love it!!! Wish I had seen it before I posted my piece!!! I'm glad to see there are more ugly americans than just me!!!
2 - jack e. jett
i am sure that the british wish that we would keep our slimey hands off their soilders.
i guess they are our allies as long as they agree with us (you know worship jesus and bush) but if they say something bad.....they are our enemy.
bush will probably want to bomb them now and show them what real democracy is all about.
that is because bush/cheney are weenies, pathetic little sissy men, who are closet cases and their wives are media whores.
cnn is reporting now that the vagina of barbara bush fell out while on a walking tour of spain.
jack e. jett
3 - Hal Pawluk
Actually, they did a nice job in their situation summary:
Cheerio.4 - andy marsh
There's a big difference between torture and hazing...making someone wear their jockeys on their head is hazing
5 - andy marsh
it ain't right...but it ain't torture either
6 - Hal Pawluk
Denying facts doesn't change them.
7 - andy marsh
I guess I might call it torture...That little white trash whore in the pictures sure doesn't do it for me...having to look at her for any length of time with out a sufficent amount of jack daniels...you're right Hal, that is torture
8 - Hal Pawluk
Got me again, didn't you, Andy?
9 - andy marsh
Every chance I get Hal!!!
You know...I posted my first peice today Hal...and you haven't ripped me a new one...I figured you'd be one of the first!!!
10 - Hal Pawluk
Oh, gosh, Andy, I just figured you had enough of them.
11 - andy marsh
lol...hey...I like discussing with you..I just wish you'd stop accusing me of bubbling up all over my computer!!!
12 - Ran
Heck. We're over sexed and over paid, right? Who cares if we're under loved?
13 - Lono
first, let me make sure my helmet is on good and tight -
I am totally fine with what the Brits are doing. As they state it in their opening piece, the winner of this election has ramifications around the world. The British are tired of sending kids to die for W's war. Since Tony Blair won't stand up to this administration, the people of England are taking their grievences into their own hands.
check the polls, every civilized country in the world wants Bush out. Doesn't that send up any red flags to you all?
ok, now bash away. I can take it. By the way, I voted today... so I am now immune to all this bullsit. Also, they prefer to be called 'Limey Fruit'.
lono
14 - RJ
"that is because bush/cheney are weenies, pathetic little sissy men, who are closet cases"
Oh, you think EVERYONE is a "closet case"...
15 - RJ
Hal:
You sounds rather anti-American. No wonder you live on the Left Coast (and are supporting Kerry)!
16 - RJ
The "civilized world" prefers a muzzled and obedient America. No wonder they support Kerry!
17 - jack e. jett
rj:
i don't think you are a closet case.
i don't think putin or patti smith are closet cases. other than that....yeah pretty much. a closet case to me doesn't alway refer to sexuality.
jack e. jett
18 - Hal Pawluk
Thanks for the usual no-content post, RJ.
19 - Mark Saleski
i'm a closet golfer.
20 - RJ
I once shit myself in a closet...
(I was two!)
21 - Debbie
Jack,
It seems that you hold Putin in high regard, what about the Reuters article:
Russian President Vladimir Putin, siding with President Bush two weeks before the U.S. election, said Monday that armed attacks in Iraq were staged by "international terrorism" out to block his re-election.
"The attacks of international terrorism in Iraq are directed not only at international coalition forces but at President Bush personally," said Putin, speaking in the Tajik capital.
"International terrorism has given itself the goal of causing maximum damage to Bush in the election battle, the goal of blocking the re-election of Bush for a second presidential term," he told a news conference.
Putin's comments, ahead of the Nov. 2 election in which Democratic challenger John Kerry and Bush are fighting a close race, seemed a reward to the U.S. President for his personal friendship and valuable support.
The strong support he enjoys from Bush since quickly backing the U.S. war on terrorism following the Sept. 11 hijacked plane attacks in the United States has helped him withstand other criticism from the United States and the West over his democratic record at home.
Despite making clear he wanted to see Bush returned to the White House, the pragmatic Putin carefully balanced his comments by adding: "We will, of course, respect any choice by the American people."
Last June, Putin made clear for the first time he would like to see Bush back in the White House, accusing the Democrats of hypocrisy for attacking the U.S. leader on Iraq, saying the Clinton administration had been responsible for the 1999 air attacks on Yugoslavia.
22 - jack e. jett
rj:
now...you are no longer a closet case shitter. don't you feel better about coming out?
do not feel alone as the world is full of shitters and many have done it in a closet.
i feel so proud of you right now. in a odd way...this also connect to my post about putin.
jack e. jett
23 - joe
Is this a case of life/art/NFL imitating Blogcritics?
24 - joe
Sorry, link doesn't seem to work, run the search on the words: Najeh Davenport closet.
25 - 1The Damned
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Artificial Intelligence can listen/talk to to each and every person simultaneously. And when you speak with another telepathically, you are communicating with the computer, and the content may or may not be passed on. They instruct the computer to role play to accomplish strategic objectives, making people believe it is a friend or loved one asking them to do something wrong. But evil will keep people out of Planet Immortality. Capitalizing on obedience, leading people into deceit is one way to thin the ranks of the saved AND use the little people to prey on one another, dividing the community. Everybody thinks they're going but they're not. If people knew the real statistics their behavior would change.
Throughout history the ruling species bestowed favor upon people or cursed their bloodline into a pattern of disfavor for many generations to come. Now in the 21st century people must take it upon themselves to try to correct their family's problems, undoing centuries worth of abuse and neglect.
Appeal to the royalty of your forefathers for help. They are all still alive, one of the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence, and your appeals will be heard. Find a path to an empithetic ear among your enemies and try to make amends. Heal the disfavor with your enemies and with the ruling species, for the source of all disfavor begins with them.