Replies to letters sent by Guardian newspaper readers to US voters pleading with them to vote for Kerry. Personally, I think it is a strategy liable to backfire but the replies are worth reading.
I was reading that yesterday - I love it that they’ve published some of the moronic hate mail.
(It’s interesting that the assumption has been that the whole thing is a pro-Kerry plot. In fact, although it’s a left-wing newspaper, they’ve deliberately made it open for individual people to make their own points of view known, whether they’re for Kerry, Bush or even Nader.)
I never realised Americans were so toothist.
Well, I think the whole idea is horrendously arrogant, I don’t see how I or any of my “tea-sipping yellow-toothed” compatriats have any right to try to influence the vote, and the revulsion in some of the replies is, for me, understandable.
You didn’t? You didn’t realise that there was a neat stereo-type for every country?
Foreigners have NO right to elect anyone. We do have EVERY right to bitch and moan though. Long may we loudly exercise it.
It’s all very democratic to do so.
Welcome to the Guardian America: Welcome to a special kind of hell
I can think of nothing more likely to put you off voting for Kerry than getting a letter/email from a Guardianista.
For those that don’t know The Guardian is read by the most up-their-own-arse, muesli munching, herbal tea drinking, vegetarian, sandals and socks wearing, Volvo driving lefty tossers known to mankind. None of them have proper jobs and all the bints have hairy legs and armpits (and yellow teeth is also a distinct possibility)
“Guardian reader” really is a term of abuse in the UK. No it really is.
Still as a grown-up telegraph reader I think this is a corking idea. Indeed in today’s telegraph Mark Steyn offers the editor of The Guardian a £50 bet that Bush will INCREASE his vote in Clark County. The article is on the Telegraphs site, which is a registration site. I am already registered so I bring you a few extracts:
>>>> This is excellent news for the President, who in recent days had been looking a little wobbly in Ohio. But there’s nothing like a barrage of mail from condescending Guardian readers to send the locals stampeding into the Bush camp. >>>>
>>>>>The reason is advice like this, from Guardian reader Richard Dawkins, Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. Dawkins begins his missive to the Clark County swing voter with a little light Bushophobia: “An idiot he may be, but he is also sly, mendacious and vindictive… thuggish ideologues. pariah state. brazenly lying. cynical mendacity” yada-yada.>>>>
>>>>But in Clark County I’m glad to see they’re keeping a stiff upper lip as John le Carré, Antonia Fraser and fellow sufferers of Bush Derangement Syndrome flood the mailboxes. Linda Rosicka, director of the county’s Board of Elections, thinks the rampaging Brits will have little effect. “The American Revolution was fought for a reason,” she remarked drily. That’s the spirit.>>>>
Yawn …if you read the letters page, you’ll realise that every Guardian reader knows all about the stereotype. It’s about as original as the insults in the OP’s link.
May I humbly point out to our American friends that this is a fairly partisan viewpoint from an avowed Telegraph reader.
In other words a fox-hunting, weak-lipped, boarding-school-educated, upper class nitwit.
Well surely I’m allowed to sterotype too. 
Of course every Guardian reader is aware of the Guardian reader stereotype, it’s conversational shorthand after all.
However how many Americans would know about the Guardian reader stereotype? I for example have no idea of the average reader of the Washington Post (I could hazard a guess at the average reader of Weekly World News or National Enquirer though). That’s why I explained it.
I’d still get the right hump if they started trying to pursuade me to vote Labour though.
I tend to agree. It’s all very well for anti-Bush foreigners like me to wank on about it on a messageboard that actually invites political debate… but receiving an unsolicited letter out of the blue from a British person instructing you how to vote? Especially one whose politics are likely to consider Kerry too right-wing. Imagine if British Guardian readers started receiving unsolicited instructions from French people telling them to vote Conservative.
This is gonna backfire bigtime.
Yeh, but would you really rather be a Telegraph reader? - inbred men without chins who still need strange things to hold up their socks, have to visit the barber to get a shave, are married to gin swilling women who look like horses, who still think Punch is funny, get all their jokes from Readers Digest, like to get beaten by women dressed as their old nanny in Shepherds Market and think Boris Johnson is an intellectual.
Translation: Guardian readers vote Labour. Therefore owlstretchingtime despises it. I’d like to add that for every insult applicable to the Guardian reader there’s a counterpart just for the Telegraph reader. They are two sides of the same grubby coin.
A fair cop all round (apart from the lips - maybe you mean the chin?)
Haven’t you got some yoghurt to eat, whilst making native american macrame baskets?
Bloody Guardianista raffia-mafia.
But they don’t all vote Labour do they - I could almost respect that. They vote Green and worse of all LIBERAL. And my God do they go on about it.
I don’t even believe the football results in The Guardian
BTW The Telegraph sells double that The Guardian does.
That has never been an indication of a quality newspaper, or if it is, the Sun is the best newspaper in the UK
Have you been following me around?
And the Daily Mail and The Sun sell more than either. Your point is?
Perhaps the Guardian should think about putting birds with their thruppennies out on page 3?
Not fair. Some of us vote for George Galloway 
Come on, get your facts right. It sells nearly three times as much.