Re: Canucks encourage their own bashing

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:36:04 GMT, "Chris B" <9000cb1@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>"Sheik Yerbouti" <not_a_speck_of_cere@xxxxx> wrote in message
>news:dqp4b0$bgd$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 'Maybe if we dropped the leftie fruitcake act on the home front, and
>> started pulling our weight on the world stage rather than criticizing
>> those who do, we would be treated with a little more seriousness by
>> our southern neighbours.'
>>
>>
>> Canada-bashing: We encourage it
>>
>> By RACHEL MARSDEN
>> December 29, 2005
>>
>> The Canadian media got all jacked up recently over the fact that an
>> American pundit let loose with an anti-Canadian rant on a cable TV
>> show. Not since the president of Hershey's saw that crane-necked alien
>> E.T. with Reese's Pieces in its hand has anyone been so giddy about
>> high-profile brand placement.
>>
>> Canadians don't get to respond very often to comments made about us by
>> Americans, because more than a decade of Liberal rule has set our
>> once-great country on a depressing descent into irrelevancy.
>>
>> You know Canadian media are desperate for attention when they offer
>> serious reportage and heartfelt, defensive analysis in response to
>> comments like: "Canada is a sweet country. It is like your retarded
>> cousin you see at Thanksgiving and sort of pat him on the head. You
>> know, he's nice but you don't take him seriously. That's Canada." Or
>> this one: "Canada is essentially a stalker, stalking the United
>> States, right? Canada has little pictures of us in its bedroom,
>> right?" Both gems are from MSNBC's Tucker Carlson.
>>
>> I'm not sure where you have left to go in a debate when you start off
>> by calling someone a retarded stalker. Why not do what everyone in
>> America does with Carlson and ignore him? But judging by the reaction
>> of some of our media, you'd think President George Bush had flipped us
>> all off himself.
>>
>> What Canadians should find far more troubling isn't that an American
>> entertainer is talking smack for ratings, but that our own Prime
>> Minister is doing the same thing for votes.
>>
>> Paul Martin built himself a giant Uncle Sam "straw man" and was
>> punching away at it when U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins walked in and
>> asked Dithers the Clown what the heck he was doing.
>>
>> Accusing an entire country of lacking a "global conscience" with
>> respect to the environment when your own record is worse than theirs
>> is really only a good move if you're auditioning for Tucker Carlson's
>> job.
>>
>> You can thank our Liberal government for the fact that Canada rarely
>> registers at all on the American radar anymore -- except when it comes
>> to things like harbouring war resisters or terror suspects, not to
>> mention gay marriage and pot.
>>
>> Starting with Jean Chretien and now under Martin, the Liberals have
>> driven a wedge between Canada and our onetime best friend for the sake
>> of a desperate power grab, constantly playing to insecure leftie
>> voters who think our identity is dependent on being as different as
>> possible from the U.S.A.
>>
>> Now we have former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Montana Senator
>> Conrad Burns falsely stating that the 9/11 terrorists entered the U.S.
>> from Canada. But Americans can't shoulder all the blame for the fact
>> that they don't have all the details right -- because when Canada
>> actually does register on their radar, all they likely see is one big
>> blur of leftie lunacy. A few terrorists, notably the would-be
>> Millenium Bomber, Ahmed Ressam, have entered the U.S. from Canada. And
>> it seems barely a week goes by these days without a Canadian being
>> paraded in front of the media as a potential terror suspect for
>> Americans to extradite and deal with.
>>
>> Maybe if we dropped the leftie fruitcake act on the home front, and
>> started pulling our weight on the world stage rather than criticizing
>> those who do, we would be treated with a little more seriousness by
>> our southern neighbours. And perhaps they'd pay more attention.
>> Respect isn't granted simply because we think we're worthy of it -- it
>> has to be earned.
>>
>>
>>
>> http://torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Marsden_Rachel/2005/12/29/1371636.html
>
>Nobody of sound mind really gives a *** what Rachel Mardsen has tosay. She
>is a well known right wing nut, stalker, convicted criminal, and false rape
>accuser. She has no credibility, and her views are that of a child
>
>

Her article contains much insight and truth, which obviously is lost
on you. Canada, like so many other countries, benefits greatly from
the US, and gives precious little in return.

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