On Oct. 23, Charlie Brooker, a columnist at The Guardian, called for someone to assassinate President Bush:
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?
The article was removed from The Guardian’s web site, Brooker apologized and The Guardian printed a retraction for the statement that “caused offence to some readers”:
Although flippant and tasteless, his closing comments were intended as an ironic joke, not as a call to action.
Just a ‘joke’… Imagine the story The Guardian would run if an Israeli journalist called for the assassination of a democratic world leader. Would they describe that as a mere ‘ironic joke’?
According to Canada Free Press, the US Secret Service is investigating Charlie Brooker on this.
This (The Guardian) is the same paper that recently flooded Ohio voters with 14,000 letters encouraging them not to vote for Bush.
