British rag "apologizes" for assassination call

This is a followup to a post made yesterday on Vulture's Row.

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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."

Read it here.

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Allow me to be the first to throw down the "BS" flag on this one. Al Ghardian has been on the attack against President Bush since the day he entered office. By running the article that called for Bush's assassination, Al Ghardian put its Seal od Approval on Charlie Booker's column. Al Ghardian has also been attempting to meddle in this years election by orchestrating a letter writing campaign to the residents of Clark County, Ohio urging them to vote for Hanoi John Kerry. The call to violence by Mr. Booker only shows the contempt the Left-wing tyrants of the world have for the US electoral process.