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2004-10-22 Home Front: Politix

Guardian calls it quits in Clark County fiasco

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Posted by ed 2004-10-22 07:02|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It also prompted a surge of indignant local voters calling the county's Republican party offering to volunteer for Mr Bush.

Hehehe...Didn't work out like you planned, did it?
Thanks, dipshits.

Posted by tu3031 2004-10-22 8:46:38 AM|| 2004-10-22 8:46:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, it has been a couple of hundred years since their last lesson in individual liberty at the hands of Americans.

Posted by AzCat 2004-10-22 8:57:49 AM|| 2004-10-22 8:57:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Its always entertaining when LLL gets hit in the face by reality.

I wonder what will happen if when Bush wins the election. Anyone want to lay odds on the number of Dhimmis base jumping w/o paracutes?

Posted by N Guard 2004-10-22 9:25:28 AM|| 2004-10-22 9:25:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, it has been a couple of hundred years since their last lesson in individual liberty at the hands of Americans.

Too bad we couldn't shoot at them this time.

Posted by BH 2004-10-22 9:47:50 AM|| 2004-10-22 9:47:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 many thanks Guardian! - we have some more ideas we'd like to share...

Posted by Karl Rove 2004-10-22 9:56:54 AM|| 2004-10-22 9:56:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I still don't think the Guardian gets it, though, folks; they think it was a success. No doubt many well-written objections came alongside the more colorful ones, but they are not paying attention to those. It doesn't promote their message that Americans are morons who need help walking across the street or voting for a president.

Posted by Jules 187 2004-10-22 10:00:04 AM|| 2004-10-22 10:00:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 When this idiotic GU campaign started, I sent the GU a note in response to the hilarious letters from those three anti-American snobs, Lord Daw Daw Dawkins, John Le Carre, and Pinter's wife:

Sir - Just when I thought the Guardian was determined to unseat Bush, you show your true colors by printing three obviously forged "letters" claiming to give sincere, well-meaning advice to American voters while creating precisely the opposite effect.
("Dear Clark County voter, Give us back the America we loved. Yours sincerely, John Le CarrÃ©") http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1326066,00.html

Karl Rove's handiwork is clearly visible in the "letter" from "Richard Dawkins," who outdoes Lord Haw Haw for sneering, condescending nastiness. A special touch is the "Tony Martin" reference, from which ironically-- or rather, intentionally-- small-town Ohioans will draw the exact opposite conclusion from that intended by Lord Daw Daw.

Another brilliant Rovian touch was to select an obscure France-based author of thinly-veiled anti-American pulp fiction as the mouthpiece for this gem:

...please don't feel isolated from the Europe you twice saved.

The cringing Uriah Heap tone is superb! Who knew Rove had such powers of literary characterization? And perfectly calculated to have the opposite effect upon Americans living in Ohio, the home of arch-isolationist Robert Taft and the Dayton Accords: bitter reminders of yet another abject refusal by Europeans to deal forthrightly and courageously to stop fascist slaughter.

Rove also uses this mouthpiece to re-cycle an obvious canard that "Bush was waging his father's war." As if Bush's father, who refused to overthrow Saddam and abandoned the Shi'a and Kurdish rebellions, was not decisively rejected by his son, who broke ranks with his father and Scowcroft and all the other cynical realpolitikers in finally summoning the will and courage to end Saddam's slaughterhouse! So sly and subtle, these inductions dangerous!

As to the third Rovian mole, "Lady Fraser," this seems an odd choice, but surely the master judged that any British female would do, given that the only contemporary British woman known to most Ohioans-- she of People's Princess fame-- died years ago, her memorial teddy bears having been diverted recently to Mr Bigley, the latest symbol of Euro-fortitude.

Auntie Antonia is a suitable vehicle for yet more sure-to-backfire "advice": If you vote for Kerry, you will help to avert a move backwards towards women's suffering. Perfect timing, that: the same week that Ohioans see joyous scenes of Afghan women celebrating their right to vote, run for office, attend school, run businesses-- and all of this due to Bush's war to overthrow the Taliban-- and a barmy old Englishwoman announces that day is night. Bravo, Karl!

Here's hoping the Rove/Guardian machine drafts and sends a thousand such letters to every Ohio household. More, please.

Best regards,

[lex]

Posted by lex 2004-10-22 10:05:27 AM|| 2004-10-22 10:05:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Robin Burk has an interesting thesis: al G did it to generate the foaming at the mouth anti Kerry letters that they published to contrast with the oh so reasonable pro-Kerry letters to further the divide betwen Britain and the US.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-10-22 10:15:19 AM|| 2004-10-22 10:15:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Simpler than that, Mrs D: it's all about generating publicity and increasing market share. Like Pee Wee Herman's little foray into the peep show.

Posted by lex 2004-10-22 10:17:11 AM|| 2004-10-22 10:17:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 If you read the unbelievably snide, patently ridiculous letters to Ohioans from Dawkins et al published as part of this campaign, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that the GU's editors did not bother even trying to think through the implications of what they were doing.

I mean, really, a renowned Christian-baiting atheist like Dawkins sending such a snide little (dis)missive to rural midwesterners? And trying to persuade them with a horror story about the wickedness of shooting a burglar?!

This is either a complete Rovian setup, or else an idiotic marketing stunt dreamed up by the business heads. I do not believe that the GU's journalists are so completely clueless as to allow such an obviously backfiring stunt as this.

Posted by lex 2004-10-22 10:22:22 AM|| 2004-10-22 10:22:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 I do not believe that the GU's journalists are so completely clueless as to allow such an obviously backfiring stunt as this

Don't read the al-Guardian much, do you?

Posted by Steve 2004-10-22 10:31:10 AM|| 2004-10-22 10:31:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 I do not believe that the GU's journalists are so completely clueless as to allow such an obviously backfiring stunt as this.

I do.

Posted by Jules 187 2004-10-22 10:32:39 AM|| 2004-10-22 10:32:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 Hysterical, AzCat and BH! Thanks.

And hey--the Guardian hasn't even paid the county clerk for the public records list they "purchased." Stupid liberal Brits. So very typical of liberals anywhere.

Posted by ex-lib 2004-10-22 11:12:52 AM|| 2004-10-22 11:12:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 ...they think you mean London, Ohio, which is in the next-door county. Another is, we have some issues with literacy round here."

When I was younger I thought that libs worked at being condescending. Now I realize that it just oozes out of them. They just can't help it. They honestly think that anyone who disagrees with them is an uncultured, uneducated, cousin-marrying, shotgun-toting, nose-picking, Fox News-watching rube.

For the record, I didn't marry my cousin.

Posted by Dreadnought 2004-10-22 12:10:49 PM|| 2004-10-22 12:10:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 For the record, I didn't marry my cousin.

Still living in sin, huh? :)

Posted by Steve 2004-10-22 1:35:09 PM|| 2004-10-22 1:35:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 We is just roommates.

Posted by Dreadnought 2004-10-22 3:01:58 PM|| 2004-10-22 3:01:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 but do you use a car key to clean your ear? that's a redneck...

Posted by Frank G 2004-10-22 3:22:26 PM|| 2004-10-22 3:22:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Simpler than that, Mrs D: it's all about generating publicity and increasing market share.

Why couldn't they just do a Page 3 girl like the Sun?

Posted by Pappy 2004-10-22 5:26:35 PM|| 2004-10-22 5:26:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 #7, lex
Excellent letter, it deserves a story all by itself. I'm still roflmao over "Lord Daw Daw" and the image of LeCarre as a cringing Uriah Heep.

How like the backward, parochial Euro-left media for Al Guardian to limit its discussion of the backlash to Clark County and Ohio itself, as though new media and the blogosphere didn't exist and therefore this couldn't have been a national story.
Their ideological fellow-travellers in the Hollywood/Madison Avenue Axis chose not to cover it, so in the minds of the smug Euro-bigots and Hate America cultists who comprise the Guardian audience and staff, no such coverage existed.

In fact, Euro interventionists have made a cataclysmic blunder.
The Guardian fiasco, combined with the attempt to pawn off anti-American propaganda shills as "impartial election observers," may be enough to make the difference in a close election.

The key error seems to be an assumption that the authority of the institutional media is still as respected and influential here as it is in Eurabia.
The 70's have been over for a long time on this side of the pond.
They know their audience, but not ours. Their monumentally arrogant fantasy ideology, and the resulting intellectual corruption and decay, will not allow them to learn.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-10-22 6:09:24 PM|| 2004-10-22 6:09:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 I liked the bit where the Guardian wouldn't believe the person who told them it wouldn't work because they knew better. Captures the Looney Left mentality perfectly.

Posted by Stephen 2004-10-22 8:27:54 PM|| 2004-10-22 8:27:54 PM|| Front Page Top

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