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IT turns out that a former New Yorker, one-time David Dinkins press rep Albert Scardino, is behind the stunts that have embarrassed Britain's looney-left newspaper, The Guardian. Scardino is executive editor of the paper, which launched an ill-advised letter-writing campaign to convince Ohioans to vote for John Kerry. The Guardian abandoned the effort last week when it became clear Americans don't like being told how to vote by foreigners and that the campaign was helping rev up the GOP base for Bush. Republican National Committee's Christine Iverson told The Post: "Now if only we could get the French to organize...

The Left’s Folly By Ali Sina Some left-wingers in the forum of FFI accused me of being ‘caught up in the American elections’, catching ‘the election fever’ and becoming ‘disoriented’ from the mission of Faith Freedom International, which is fighting Islam! Not so! I see this election as the core of our battle against Islamic Terrorism. If Kerry wins the presidency we all lose. Mankind will lose. It is as simple as that. I think I have made this point very clear. But leftism is an ideology, it is a belief system. Just as it is hard to reason with...

I was flipping around the channels and stopped at CNN because Lou Dobbs was talking about the missing ammo in Iraq (he hadn't gotten the NBC memo yet). Anyways, after the interview with the woman, he intros the next story: To paraphrase: "Next, you won't believe what a paper in England said about President Bush. Stay tuned for what The Guardian said." Que the graphics to lead to commercial. Lou Dobbs (mic still on): "I love The Guardian." Female Guest: "Oh God!"

The Guardian, a London-based newspaper, ended a letter-writing campaign aimed at defeating U.S. President George W. Bush after a Web site hosting the promotion was attacked by hackers. Ian Katz, an editor at the British newspaper who thought up "Operation Clark County," said in a letter posted to the company's Web site on Thursday that despite garnering an overwhelming response from the public, the project was being scrapped. The campaign asked for non-American volunteers to pen letters to undecided voters in Clark County, Ohio--which the Guardian had identified as a crucial region in a battleground election state--urging them to vote...

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Last week, a United Kingdom newspaper ended its effort to convince Ohio voters to remove President George W. Bush from office in November. The Guardian obtained a list of names and addresses of undecided voters in the Buckeye state and asked its readers to send letters urging them to support Democratic Sen. John Kerry (D-MA). The ploy appeared to backfire and actually increase support for the incumbent. Voters from Clark County flooded the Guardian with angry letters telling it "mind its own business." One local newspaper ran an editorial with the title "Butt Out Brits." On...

So the Guardian claims that that the final sentence of Charlie Brooker's "Assassination Column" was an "ironic joke". What. Absolute. ROT. Irony isn't irony when there is no counterpoint; there isn't any counterpoint even remotely made in this spittle-flecked screed. It's all rant and wretch: the words are not so much typed as vomited. To review: The Guardian UK: Charlie Brooker Saturday October 23, 2004 "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...

Washington D.C.'s Secret Service is investigating Charlie Brooker of the UK Guardian. The entertainment writer's weekend, anti-Bush tantrum, ending with the words, "John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr.--where are you now that we need you," was picked up by the Drudge Report,--using Brooker's provocative last words as the main headline. Citing federal statute 18 USC 879, Florida attorney John B. Thompson, called in the Secret Service Protective Intelligence Unit. "Please do whatever is necessary to punish the UK Guardian and to educate Matt Drudge on the meaning and scope of statute 18," Thompson wrote in a letter...

Dear Sirs: I am not a reader of your newspaper, I never have been, and I never will be. However as a public-minded citizen of this country, I must respond to your recent attacks on George W. Bush. Seldom in the history of newsprint has a publication been so arrogant in its presumptions, so tactless in its dialogue, and so witless in what it chose to be fit to print. First, let us begin with your ill-conceived campaign to write to voters in Ohio. I have to ask: what were you thinking? Anyone with a tangential awareness of American history...

Following closely on the heels of its disastrous attempt to meddle in the US elections through a letter writing campaign, the Guardian has published a column that appears to plead for an assassin to come forward and kill President George W Bush. It could represent a new low in mainstream media commentary. The columnist, Charlie Brooker, apparently reviews television programmes for the Guardian. In his October 3 column, Dumb Show, Mr Brooker reviews the debates between Mr Kerry and Mr Bush and finds both candidates lacking -- but reserves a particularly venomous evaluation for Mr Bush. He writes: Throughout the...

These calls for assassination first published by UK's Guardian have jumped the pond to our own shores... the creeps over at MetaFilter are AGREEING with the column and saying that it should be done! Take action and report this to the FBI! This is no joking matter! Just look at the two planes that buzzed the President today or the countless acts of violence by Dems already! If Bush wins there WILL be violence and we need hold them responsible.

<p>"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?"</p>

LONDON — If you think the insults have been flying fast, hard and low between the Bush and Kerry campaigns, read the political "discourse" sent from Americans to British citizens who dared contact them with opinions on the presidential election. "Real Americans aren't interested in your (bleeping), tea-sipping opinions," one note read. "If you want to save the world, begin with your own worthless corner of it." And then there was this: "We don't need (blankety-blanks) meddling in our presidential election. If it wasn't for America, you'd all be speaking German." And this, all caps, should the sentiment not already...

So now we've been reminded by the Euroweenie intelligentsia and their greasy band of mange-cat socialist sycophants and suck-ups in no uncertain terms that George W. Bush is unstable and more dangerous than any man since Adolph Hitler. The Brit newpaper The Guardian went so far as to buy an address list of 14,000 undeclared voters in Ohio so its readership could send letters to the American hicks pleading with them to turn Bush out and elect the more "nuanced" and morally relativistic John Kerry to bring pre-9/11 peace and harmony to a world that has been wracked to chaos...

The Guardian yesterday ran up the white flag and called a halt to "Operation Clark County", the newspaper's ambitious scheme to recruit thousands of readers to persuade American voters in a swing state to kick out President George W Bush in next month's election. The cancellation of the project came 24 hours after the first of some 14,000 letters from Guardian readers began arriving in Clark County. The missives led to widespread complaints about foreign interference in a US election. It also prompted a surge of indignant local voters calling the county's Republican party offering to volunteer for Mr Bush....

Guardian calls it quits in Clark County fiasco By David Rennie in Youngstown (Filed: 22/10/2004) The Guardian yesterday ran up the white flag and called a halt to "Operation Clark County", the newspaper's ambitious scheme to recruit thousands of readers to persuade American voters in a swing state to kick out President George W Bush in next month's election. The cancellation of the project came 24 hours after the first of some 14,000 letters from Guardian readers began arriving in Clark County. The missives led to widespread complaints about foreign interference in a US election. It also prompted a surge...

The US election has exposed a growing conflict between two world views. Can they co-exist in one country? Here it comes again, that sinking feeling. Four years ago I travelled across the US, following the presidential campaign, and came away alarmed that Al Gore was not doing enough to win an election that should have been his. Now I have that same queasy feeling - except this time it's not only about the simple matter of who will win and who will lose on November 2. Now it's a deep concern about what is happening to the United States itself....

Have you seen this campaign the Guardian's been running? They identified Clark County, Ohio as one of the swingiest counties in one of the most critical swing states, so they got hold of the electoral roll and are telling their readers to bombard the county's voters with reasons not to vote for Bush. This is excellent news for the President, who in recent days had been looking a little wobbly in Ohio. But there's nothing like a barrage of mail from condescending Guardian readers to send the locals stampeding into the Bush camp. If the editor of the Guardian's up...

There is nothing George Bush likes more than extolling the virtues of democracy in faraway places. On October 8, during the second presidential debate, he promised: "Freedom is on the march. Tomorrow, Afghanistan will be voting for a president." Apparently some Afghans enjoyed their new freedoms so much, they voted for the US surrogate, Hamid Karzai, several times over, after the ink used to mark voters' thumbs wore off. By the middle of the day, all 15 of Karzai's challengers had withdrawn. Freedom was not even limping let alone marching. Back in the US, however, the Almighty seems far less...

LONDON (Reuters) - A pro-Kerry letter-writing campaign by Britain's left-leaning Guardian newspaper, targeting undecided U.S. voters, has provoked outrage across the Atlantic. The paper has encouraged its readers to express their opinions on the November 2 presidential election to voters in the key swing state of Ohio -- a move which has prompted a deluge of indignant reactions. "Hey England, Scotland and Wales, mind your own business. We don't need weenie-spined Limeys meddling in our presidential election," was one e-mail the paper printed. The Fox national cable television network tore into the Guardian and even John Kerry (news - web...

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- A pro-Kerry letter-writing campaign by Britain's left-leaning Guardian newspaper, targeting undecided U.S. voters, has provoked outrage across the Atlantic. The paper has encouraged its readers to express their opinions on the November 2 presidential election to voters in the key swing state of Ohio -- to the fury of Clark county. "Hey England, Scotland and Wales, mind your own business. We don't need weenie-spined Limeys meddling in our presidential election," was one of the e-mail reactions to the campaign. The Fox national cable television network tore into the newspaper and even John Kerry's own Democrats expressed...