October 21, 2004
THEY RAN SO FAST THAT THE HOUND DOGS COULDN'T CATCH 'EM...:
Guardian calls it quits in Clark County fiasco (David Rennie, 22/10/2004, Daily Telegraph)
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.
The paper said it had closed the website where readers collected an address to write to and had abandoned plans to take four "winners" to visit voters in Clark County.
Meow.... Posted by Orrin Judd at October 21, 2004 11:10 PM
It's hard not to admire the naive cluelessness of this scheme -- I wish they hadn't given up so easily.
Posted by: Matt Murphy at October 21, 2004 11:29 PMKarl Rove will be e-nailing them first thing in the morning, no dobut, asking them not to give up so quickly on this valuable piece of community service.
Posted by: John at October 21, 2004 11:41 PMI told you so.
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at October 22, 2004 12:17 AM14,000 letters?! I had no idea of the magnitude of this stupidity. And like General Pakenham's ignorance of the Treaty of Ghent, the Guardian hasn't figured out that this electoral war is over.
Posted by: Fred Jacobsen (San Fran) at October 22, 2004 12:30 AMDon't fire your e-mails until you see the yellow of their teeth.
Posted by: ghostcat at October 22, 2004 1:16 AMAt least the Islamofascists, or most of them, have the cojones to stand and fight when cornered. These linquini-spined pommies are truly deballed. How low the British Left have sunk. I can't imagine the leaders of the General Strike of 1926 snivelling off like this.
Posted by: John Cunningham at October 22, 2004 2:39 AMWithou skipping a beat, Guardian afficionados will undoubtedly complain, "If our newspaper could gracefully end its noble campaign against Bush, why can't Bush end his criminal campaign against Iraqis?"
Posted by: Barry Meislin at October 22, 2004 9:08 AMConcord.......
Saratoga........
New Orleans.........
Clark County? lol
Concord.......
Saratoga........
New Orleans.........
Clark County? lol