This report gave me a good chuckle...
Leftist U.K. Paper Sways U.S. Election for Bush
Friday, Nov. 5, 2004 2:13 p.m. EST
newsmax.com
Life gets no sweeter: The Manchester Guardian, the left-wing British "news"paper that tried to meddle in our election and sabotage President Bush, inadvertantly ended up helping him win re-election.
"14,000 liberals write letters to swing voters in Clark County, which makes them see 'red'," USA Today recalled today.
"The letters — many of which criticized the war in Iraq, spoke of fear abroad of U.S. foreign policy and implored recipients to vote President Bush out of office — were attacked as an invasion of privacy and intrusion into U.S. sovereignty. House Speaker Dennis Hastert threatened to take away The Guardian's congressional press privileges. Conservative talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity lambasted the project on the air."
Jason Mauk, spokesman for the Ohio Republican Party, said: "It fired up our side, not just in Clark County, but across the state. We got hundreds of calls from people reporting this to us and asking what they could do. We even heard from wavering American Democrats abroad who told us this helped them make a decision to vote for Bush."
Angry Midwesterners gave the Guardian a taste of its own medicine by flooding it with e-mails and letters.
The paper's media editor, Ian Katz, whined that it was was "pretty unpleasant and inconvenient" for the staff to get hit with such an onslaught.
"You couldn't fail to be a little shocked by the volume and pitch of the invective directed our way," he boo-hooed.
A choice sampling of the correspondence:
"Real Americans aren't interested in your pansy-ass, tea-sipping opinions."
"We don't need weenie-spined Limeys meddling in our presidential election."
"If you want to save the world, begin with your own worthless corner of it."
Rep. Ted Strickland, D-Ohio, fretted that the leftist scheme was "counterproductive."
And the result: "Clark was the only one of Ohio's 88 counties — and among only 5% of all 3,113 U.S. counties and independent townships — to turn" from Democrat in 2000 to Republican this year, USA Today noted.
We can only hope that some French daily tries to provide similar "assistance" to whichever poor sap has to carry the Democrat banner in 2008.
P.S.: Yes, the Guardian is the same hatemongering rag that ran a column urging the assassination of our president. On Wednesday it blubbered that Americans' re-election of Bush "catapaulted liberal Britain into collective depression." |
