declan_murphy@hotmail.com (Declan Murphy) wrote in message news:<7506e9b6.0410240237.2a9f0e5c@posting.google.com>...
> Kevin Gowen <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote in message news:<2u0c5eF20urulU6@uni-berlin.de>...
> > Who needs enemies?
> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/columnists/story/0,,1333748,00.html
> > 
> > "John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr. - where are you 
> > now that we need you?"
> > 
> > - Kevin
> 
> Howyadoin Kev?
> 
> No need to worry, it is the Graudian and all. Funniest bit for me
> was...
> 
> "Quite frankly, the man's either wired or mad. If it's the former, he
> should be flung out of office: tarred, feathered and kicked in the
> nuts. And if it's the latter, his behaviour goes beyond strange, and
> heads toward terrifying. He looks like he's listening to something we
> can't hear. He blinks, he mumbles, he lets a sentence trail off,
> starts a new one, then reverts back to whatever he was saying in the
> first place. Each time he recalls a statistic (either from memory or
> the voice in his head), he flashes us a dumb little smile, like a
> toddler proudly showing off its first bowel movement. Forgive me for
> employing the language of the playground, but the man's a tool."
> 
> At the very least, got to give the writer applause for managing bowel
> movement and tool in adjoining sentences.
> 
> Regards Declan,
> Same combini. Thinking about an ice-cream.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/tvradio/story/0,14676,1335307,00.html

Screen Burn, The Guide 

Sunday October 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.