Ressurecting this old thread as I am astounded lately at the slew of American Republican comments on the same English newspaper site,
The Guardian.
It strikes me that, irrespective of McCain's ability to use a computer
, there is a full-on Republican campaign to attack any and all negative media commentary about McCain and Palin and, similarly, to support any positive reporting by spamming the comments sections on their websites.
Jonathan Freedland had the temerity to suggest that if the US missed the chance to vote in Obama, the rest of the world would lose respect for them in
this article on Wednesday. 771 comments later, for the most part right-wing rant and derision of us hapless "yurpeans", the thread was locked.
On the other hand, the fulsome praise for
this article in
The Times bordered at times on the nauseating.
Why are the Republicans so concerned about the views from our "small island"? Do they genuinely think that their own electorate is likely to even read what is written in UK newspapers, much less be influenced in their vote by it? Secondly, where do all these people get the time to spam all these threads? Or are there other forces at work, employing people to do just that?
Maybe they have targetted
The Guardian for special treatment because of their rather daft attempt to
influence voters in Clark County, Ohio, in the 2004 elections. Funny how they would be so scared of them, though, if the writing campaign failed as miserably as they alleged. I would have thought they would want to positively encourage another one if that was the case.
I have to say (as I posted on another hijacked article last night) a great many of these posters remind me of Otto in
A Fish Called Wanda - shallow pseudo-intellectualism barely masking ignorance, bigotry and hatred of us Brits and our non-Hollywood wonky teeth.
