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UK's Guardian Outrage: Bush Should Be Shot!?!?

Guardian writer asks, "Booth ... Oswald ... Hinckley ... Where are you now that we need you?"

- October 24, 2004 -

 

        Props to the Drudge Report.

        In an abominable October 23, 2004, attack on President Bush, Charlie Brooker of England's Guardian newspaper, wrote,

He [Bush] 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 ...

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? (bold, emphasis added)

        Unbelievable.

        On Sunday, the day following the publication of the piece, the Guardian removed the article from its web site. Then, several hours later, they posted an apology to its readership. However, if readers to this web site act quickly, they might be able to locate a cached version of the original article.

 

TheMediaReport.com says ... A simply barbaric article.