College newspaper site UWIRE recently announced the UWIRE 100, their estimation of the top college journalists of last year. Our personal favorite? David McSwane of the Rocky Mountain Collegian. Along with the editorial staff, he wrote a two-word, full-page editorial saying, simply, "Fuck Bush." He was very nearly canned. Click to see the glorious original version.












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A bold, controversial statement to make in late 2007.
There are a lot more intelligent arguements against Bush.
But that's one he may understand.
@moff: In a college paper it might be. Hats off to him, I say.
@Helman: What?! Ma'am, a lady does not remove her hat in public.
While I respect the sentiment, it didn't exactly take a journalist to come up with it. I think I said it 14 times yesterday.
@Tammany_Fall: You're a real muckracker, I'd say!
This makes me want to dig out of storage my "Lick Bush" political T-shirt (circa 1990) just to be *ironic.*
@moff: You are a funny one.
Sometimes I wonder what activisty liberal types will have to talk about when dubya leaves office.
Headlining the editorial in such away will definetly attract attention, but will definetly detract from his arguments and message no matter how valid they may be. In most cases dropping the "F bomb" is a decoy for the writers inability to find accurate and intelligent words to describe his dissapproval and outrage.
@PaisleyPajamas: "Bush is a Pussy."
@notthatpopular:
I definetly dissapprove of the writers such away.
@notthatpopular: I don't know . . . A lot of people seemed to respond to "Fuck the Draft"
@Helman: It must have taken a lot of courage to write Fuck Bush in giant letters in a college paper...what a brave soul. I bet he lost a ton of friends for that, what with the overwhelming right-wingedness of America's colleges these days and all.
@notthatpopular: I slightly disagree. I think it's pithy.
@maggiesfarmer: Big fingers and an iPhone keyboard are not a great match.
@notthatpopular: "Fuck Bush" has a certain college liberal-appropriate ring to it.
Besides, it's a sin to get verbose when two four-letter words suffice.
@FitnessMadeSimple: I sense you are teasing me. And I accept that.
@Tammany_Fall: Yeah, I've said it so much that now when I do normal things around the house like burn myself or get my penis caught in the garbage disposal, I just automatically say "Fuck Bush!" because, it is obviously all his fault at this point. And if anyone disagrees, fuck 'em.
intelligent arguments are rarely noticed; my hat's off to the kid, and to where i'm going to college for (somewhat) tolerating it.
What the editor meant to say was to avoid having sexual relations with anyone who has had a bikini wax -- what's the all the fuss?
I think he missed his deadline, so went with brevity over eloquence.
I go to this school, and I must confess that it was pretty ballsy to print something that inflammatory in good old, red-state Colorado. We may be a college town, but there's still a good half of the student population with pious sticks up their asses.
For weeks afterwards, the Collegian reported the fallout of its own scandal as front page news, effectively displacing Bush as a newsworthy topic. Ironic, really.
I don't understand why you actually like this. It's stupid and doesn't advance our cause at all. Conservatives would eat this up.
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