The Guardian runs oped with joke about assassination - Right go nuts

[RadiDem]

The Right are going ballistic over an oped column in The Guardian, joking about assassination.

What's funny is that some are pissed at Drudge for repeating the offending comment !

LOL !

http://www.torontofreepress.com/2004/cover102504.htm

Freepers call for a preemptive strike on the UK

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;s=guardian

[Maddy McCall]

1. And some of us here didn't like such "jokes" either.

I find little humor in assassination.

[trof]

2. Saw the article.

Figured there would be some serious fallout over the Booth-Hinckley et al comment.
Not smart.
Not even funny.

[LizW]

3. The article was pretty funny but that last bit

about assasination was over the top, I thought.

[AlamoDemoc]

5. I read the article yesterday...the last part gave me a hiccup too

[ComerPerro]

4. And yet try googling "assasinate" and "clinton"

And you will find scores of web pages calling for the assasination of Bill Clinton, countless jokes about it, and people who think that Tim McVeigh was an American hero.


And, hell, G Gordon Liddy advises someone on the best way to kill a Federal Agent, and he wins an award!

[RadiDem]

6. I agree 100%, and this was CLEARLY a joke >

although in poor taste to many.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

8. While in poor taste, where was the outrage over the Anti Clintonites???

That was wrong too!!!!

[RadiDem]

14. There wasn't any ! The extreme right idolize Mcveigh, Weaver >

and defend Koresh as well.

I just recently read a comment on FreakRepublic hoping that Kerry's campaign plane met the same fate as Wellstone's

Several there thought that was pretty funny.

[Wickerman]

7. Drudge: " at least as reckless as the aforementioned drunk"

and they prosecuted him. Drudge, anything for hits. Discussion of assasination is vile.

[leftchick]

9. The Moderator on C-Span read it this Morning!

I was pissed! For years I have been angered that they quote from all of the RW rags and never use the far more credible foreign press. Especially right before the war! The first time I hear the Guardian quoted it is this shit to stir up the wingers!
FU brian lamb!
:grr:

[Steven_S]

10. No more English Muffins in the White House...

Oh Ms. Lewinsky, where are you now?

The righteous right could use your special skills now more than ever.

[goforit]

11. What about freedom of the Press????

[Cronus Protagonist]

12. I'm sure he was just referring to this strategy game....

http://assassindeathmatch.com

:)

[DrBB]

13. The kind of lame "joke" that provides ammunition to the Right

Soon as I saw this I thought, "counter-productive," and "thanks alot."

I don't believe we should watch our every utterance for fear of what the Reichpundits will do with it, but do we have to go out of our way to wrap it up with a bow and present it to them as a gift?

[mitchum]

15. Well, Laura would get several more years wear out of her dress...

than Jackie did. Considering the quantity of brain matter and all...

Obviously, I was offended by nothing in the op ed

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. It was actually a TV review, not an oped

And this kind of comment is quite common in Britain - The Observer today suggested torturing the Lord Chancellor, and Rory Bremner suggested boiling a British politician alive tonight on TV (I think it was Jack Straw, but I can't be sure). Both were comments on the Uzbekistan torturing.

[pacalo]

19. That is certainly the case -- but their jokes are very tame

compared to the mean-spirited comments said about Democrats on the freeper sites. I'm embarrassed just thinking how the freepers will represent our country -- if the Brits don't understand that we've got a couple of nutcase factions in this country (freepers & fundies), they will get the picture when their hate mail arrives.

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. Maybe we should remind them that Reagan

said he was about to bomb the Soviet Union? Back then, everyone had a bit more of a sense of humour, especially right wingers.

[pacalo]

28. Damn straight!

[RadiDem]

21. Thanks for the clarification

nt

[pacalo]

17. The way I look at it, the Brits will see first-hand

what kind of nuts we're up against in this election.

[NoPasaran]

18. I fail to understand the outrage

Years ago in school I remember learning about a speech given in the Virginia House of Burgesses that ended

"Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell. And George the Third..."

{cries of "Treason!}

"...and George the Third may profit by their example. If this be treason make the most of it!"

The speaker was Patrick Henry, who I think came down through history with a pretty good reputation.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

20. The sure are !

I post alot over at the Gruans talkboards and the freepers there arre pretty torqued...but the Brit posters just laugh and bait them some more.

They freepers come across like Kevin Klines "Otto" character in A Fish Called Wanda.

[Blue_Tires]

22. quality piece

[Cat Atomic]

23. Right-wing nuts go crazy no matter what you say. Screw 'em.

[CatholicEug]

25. Such jokes

Not cool. IMHO.

[Maiden England]

26. people really shouldn't feed the trolls

nt

[JHBowden]

27. An assassination would just make CHENEY president

Oh wait, Cheney *is* the president!