As bored as we all are with the American elections- this was a little story that i just could'nt let pass by..
As is the Guardians way- it came out in force to support the Kerry campaign. It might have gone too far when it printed
this article by Charlie Brooker, which ended with the paragraph:
"On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr - where are you now that we need you?"
And then sanity prevailed and the Guardian removed the article from there site, leaving the following stub:
r 24, 2004
The Guardian
The final sentence of a column in The Guide on Saturday caused offence to some readers. The Guardian associates itself with the following statement from the writer.
"Charlie Brooker apologises for any offence caused by his comments relating to President Bush in his TV column, Screen Burn. The views expressed in this column are not those of the Guardian. Although flippant and tasteless, his closing comments were intended as an ironic joke, not as a call to action - an intention he believed regular readers of his humorous column would understand. He deplores violence of any kind."
The article has now been removed from the Guardian Unlimited website. "
So you really can go too far left..