[link|http://news.com.com/UK+papers+anti-Bush+ploy+gets+hacked%2C+sacked/2100-1028_3-5423204.html?tag=nefd.top|Everyone's trying to influence the election]

Excerpt:

The Guardian, a London-based newspaper, ended a letter-writing
campaign aimed at defeating U.S. President George W. Bush after a Web
site hosting the promotion was attacked by hackers.

Ian Katz, an editor at the British newspaper who thought up "Operation
Clark County," said in a letter posted to the company's Web site on
Thursday that despite garnering an overwhelming response from the
public, the project was being scrapped. The campaign asked for
non-American volunteers to pen letters to undecided voters in Clark
County, Ohio--which the Guardian had identified as a crucial region in
a battleground election state--urging them to vote against Bush in
next month's presidential election.

I say:

For "despite" read "because of." See below:

Excerpt:

Katz wrote in his letter that the effort was launched as something
of a joke, but took on a more serious tenor as angry letters began
flooding into the Guardian from Americans incensed by the plan. Despite
taking the turn for the worse, the editor said his project still had
its intended effect, provoking discussion of the election.

I say:

You mean nobody was discussing it before the Guardian came to our
rescue and raised our consciousness?

According to one Whitehall source, the people at the Guardian are a
bunch of flaming jackasses. But at least they don't pretend to be
unbiased, and that makes them less contemptible than, for example, CBS.

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