One of the more hilarious things I've read ...
It seems that some smarty-pants brits at the Guardian decided to lecture voters in the US about the election with a personal letter writing campaign. They targeted a small battleground community in Ohio, and selected British leftists to personally write letters to individual households in that community. They hoped to help sway the election with a targeted strike in a strategic battleground community.Somehow, it suprised the brits that it might backfire, and the American's might write back with letters like this:
Have you not noticed that Americans don't give two shits what Europeans think of us? Each email someone gets from some arrogant Brit telling us why to NOT vote for George Bush is going to backfire, you stupid, yellow-toothed pansies ... I don't give a rat's ass if our election is going to have an effect on your worthless little life. I really don't. If you want to have a meaningful election in your crappy little island full of shitty food and yellow teeth, then maybe you should try not to sell your sovereignty out to Brussels and Berlin, dipshit. Oh, yeah - and brush your goddamned teeth, you filthy animals.
and ..
Real Americans aren't interested in your pansy-ass, tea-sipping opinions. If you want to save the world, begin with your own worthless corner of it.
and ...
Gentle folks at the Guardian,
In your plea to get your non-American readers to write to voters in Clark County, Iowa, you are correct that events in the US have had, and will have, effects on world events. For example, we have pulled your chestnuts out of the fire in two world wars that were occasioned by European diplomacy. Maybe you'd like a vote in which American president will oversee the next rescue. The next time you have elections in Great Britain, I shall endeavour to send names of your citizens to people in France, Iraq, India, the United Arab Emirates, Botswana, Pakistan, China and Argentina so that they may attempt to influence your election. It's only fair that everybody in the world should have a say in the selection of the prime minister.
Read a sampling of the letters here, and an article about the idiot who thought this up. Hilariously, it looks like their campaign actually drove more voters to Bush. The evidence shows that they may have single-handedly helped Bush win.
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