I don't see why it needs to be in private messaging- my main problem is how it isn't about The Guardian. It's about your politics. The only things that identify it as being about The Guardian are the bits you've taken from Wikipedia or wherever about those controversies.
The Guardian is a newspaper and Internet News Page that is dedicated to far left causes and is read by self-hating rich people. Basically the British MSNBC.
No it isn't dedicated to far left causes.
"Jews cause economic collapse" and that whole "Big government" thing. It's plain that you do not know your subject, and are merely latching onto something you've seen be identified as vaguely left-wing in order to launch a strawman against the left-wing.
1. The Guardian beleives that an uber-strong Government is needed to lord over people to protect them from their own foolish ideas and dreams.
2. Only snobs read The Guardian for the political stuff. These snobs share the Guardian's view of government, with the exception that they themselves wish to run the government one day.
3. The term "Guardian Reader" has come to mean a person of leftist views in England, used by Tories as a slur and Labour members as a boast.
4. The Guardian Reader cannot accept the fact that individuals are responsible for the crappiness of their own lives.
5. It is a tightrope walk to stay in the Guardian's good graces... just ask former Messiah turned anti-christ Tony Blaire.
6. None of the above matters because the only reason 99.9% of readers read the Guardian is because of its excellent Football (soccer) coverage.
No, no, no. More political strawmanning, coupled with assertions that come out of nowhere yet aren't funny. Labour members don't use "Guardian Reader" as a boast at all. And turning against Tony *Blair* is hardly evidence of anything. He was wildly popular early on, he fell from grace. That's not about the Guardian at all.
We here at Cracked have no problem with anyone's political views, provided they keep them to themselves. Or at the very least you come out and say something like "I am a die-hard Republican so I think Sarah Palin is actually pretty not retarded." However, we do have a slight problem when obviously biased political hacks try to pretend they are moderates "I am a moderate but it is obvious to my neutral self that anyone opposed to Obama's health care plan is a racist."
Follow your own advice. And quit with the strawmanning "Obviously biased political hacks try to pretend they are moderates"?
On that note, in 2004 the Guardian's editor Ian Katz replied "it is no secret we are a centre-left newspaper". Of course this seems harmless until you check the "Translating Political Talk to Real World Talk" and find....
"Center-Left: A term used by far left extremists to pretend they aren't far left extremists."
Just fuck off.
The Guardian was originally formed in the working-class city of Manchester, England. Manchester has the distinction of being the world's first Industrialized City. This means of course, that it was the world's first dirty, stinking, smoky cess-pit. Manchester's fortunes have recovered somewhat as they have given the world two of the biggest forces of Popular Culture: Manchester United Football Club and the band Oasis. The city itself remains a cesspit of theft and sexually transmitted diseases rivaled only by nearby Liverpool. The only upside is that The Guardian finally abandoned the pretense of being true to their roots and moved to London in 1964. Almost 35 years later to the day the Band Oasis quit pretending they cared about anything other than their own wallet and released "Be Here Now." 40 years to the day Manchester United sold out to Americans who quaintly refer to the club as "our fuckin' cash cow."
Just bizarre.
(self proclaimed champion of the underclass)
If it's self-proclaimed you can provide a quote, can't you? Again, you, not knowing what you're talking about, branding it as something because of your own misguided notions.
Because, you know, while Jews are technically a minority according to popular stereotypes they are so rich and powerful it's okay to discriminate against them (psst... did you hear the Jews are also keeping the Black Man down?).
Again, just nonsense.
In October 2009, the Labour controlled Government banned The Guardian from Reporting about the actions of Parliament.
No, no, no, no, no.
In 2006 The Guardian oddly claimed "fervent rightwing Americans started buying Bang & Olufsen stereos and Lego" to show support for the Danish who had offended Muslims with an offensive anti-Islamic cartoon.
I don't even know why this is here? What purpose does it serve? And it's hardly an odd claim when the Guardian provides statistics to show the increase and mentions a campaign organized to that effect. But seriously did you just search the Guardian website for any mention of right-wing Americans to throw in?
Topped off with a link to an odious little blog post- "Anyone who reads the Guardian is a twat". Not notable, not worth a thing, but it's there because it attacks the Guardian.
Now what has spawned your embarassingly misinformed hatred of the Guardian?
US Elections: In 2004 the Guardian bought a voter list from Clark County, Ohio (in the USA) and encouraged readers to write to undecided voters to enlighten them to the fact the British hate George W. Bush and to encourage them to vote for the more acceptable, more British-like John Kerry. At first this seems to be in line with their reader's views. However, the Guardian's efforts is cited as one of the reasons G.W. Bush won Clark County as apparently Americans tend to think they should be allowed to decide which douchebag to vote for without some limey bastard telling them who to vote for.
Oh.
You don't know the subject matter, at all. You can't just go "Oh, the Guardian's liberal- here's a big list of strawmen arguments about liberals that will surely fit in the context of this paper I know nothing about!"
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