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October 22, 2004

Tim Blair Gets Results!

British Sissy-Paper Calls Off Campaign to Swing Ohio Voters

British Writers Objected To Mass-Emails Suggesting That They Clean Their Teeth, Calling them "Chocolate Mouth"

A petty little victory, but this is just the place for such pettiness:

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.

Here's the thing: the rest of the world is so pleased with itself -- so self-satisfied with its ostensibly superior culture and education -- that they really imagined US voters wanted unsolicited mass emails. Because, you see, these aren't your normal unsolicited mass emails. These are from Europeans.

Thanks to NickS.

posted by Ace at 05:08 PM

Comments

I can't wait for the next British election. I fully intend to contact British citizens and urge them to reelect Tony Blair - one of the few politicians in that country with balls.

Posted by: Dittybopper on October 22, 2004 05:12 PM

They were giving out physical addresses, bags of mail sealed with European spittle are on the way to Ohio.

Posted by: Ripper on October 22, 2004 05:29 PM

I'm going to travel to London for their next election, wear a cowboy hat, and sing "America....FUCK YEAH!"

Posted by: Joe R. the Unabrewer on October 22, 2004 06:08 PM

Me, ever the optimist, would like to think those bags of letters enroute from England are crammed full of apologies for their media's assholish behavior. Can you imagine living in a city where practically every newspaper makes the National Enquirer look like the New York Times? Ok, bad analogy...

Posted by: BrewFan on October 22, 2004 07:12 PM

When you think about it, I doubt any American would have the bad manners to look up start writing personal letters to someone in another state they just looked up on the voter rolls, telling them how to vote and dissing their C-in-C.

If I got a letter from some guy in the next state over I'd be creeped out and feel like my privacy was violated (not in an ACLU way, just in a creepy-personal space way.) Even if I agreed with them.

I'd multiply that feeling by ten thousand if it were a foreigner telling me how to run my country.

Is this particular spasm of arrogance a European thing, or a leftist thing?

Posted by: See-Dubya on October 22, 2004 07:12 PM

Leftist thing...They can't resist the urge to tell others how to conduct their lives.

Posted by: Paul B. on October 22, 2004 07:44 PM

Its a European thing too.
They have ridiculous ideas about what Americans are like, and what our lives are like.

Posted by: lauraw on October 22, 2004 08:34 PM

British Leftist thing. They're, uh, interesting people. I remember Ace posting about NYC liberals and how hostile and pushy they are with people.

People in Britain who think the Guardian is gospel?

They make Hillary Clinton look like Phyllis Schafly.

Posted by: Rob on October 22, 2004 08:44 PM

lauraw --

Yes, but unfortunately many of those ideas come from watching CNN, Michael Moore films, and listening to Democrat politicians.

Posted by: capitano on October 22, 2004 11:39 PM

Well, I'd just like to thank them for helping us out. It seems to have pissed off many enough to vote for Bush. Question: Is this what it will feel like if Kerry wins and the UN starts telling us what to do?

Posted by: Philip on October 23, 2004 03:49 AM

Capitano, if TV news and political films are mirrors, then they are of the bizarre fun-house variety.

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