"They are lucky that we allow them to exist on the same continent as the United States of America".
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let me know your thoughts. but first, here's mine - ****ing bitch.
posted by Joyce @ 11:34 PM
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Man, I would have watched that clip, but I was just going out dogsledding.
In a way, I admire them for having the confidence to show their ignorance to the world. Simply astounding. And that guy shouldn't talk about being in the 21st century, he's still wearing a polka dotted bow tie...
I don't recognize anything Shawn said from any really obvious sources; also, he's wrong. Just plain old factually wrong. The US, while it does in fact have a strong military, especially in comparison to Canada, is not a military-centric nation. Look at Sweden, Israel, even Holland--they have a strong military focus. The US, not so much. Also, he really should have considered the bias of whatever show it was that did the story on the conflict between Fox and the CBC, and he understand how the rules of comedy allow shows like the Simpsons to make Fox jokes. he should also figure who the hell the people in the clip are, because them as icons is ridiculously important to understanding what's going on.
First things first, baseball is not the American pass-time, ignorance is. Coulter and Carlson, as Colmes was noting, are here giving nothing more than jovial sound-byte fodder. I would venture that they know nothing about Canada or, if they do, they don't consider that information as good TV, so they won't give it up. The fact is, liberal debate, while more factual, more ethically sound, and more RIGHT, is simply not in a place to make good television at this period in time. The Daily Show is wonderful, but it's not run by liberal pundits, it's run by liberal comedians (and a few libertarians I think).
The issue at hand in this clip really isn't, I think, a Canada-US debate, but merely the rehashing of the ubiquitous depravity of popular American media, where humourously-worded deceit is in the forefront and where fact and truth aren't even in the backseat, but in the trunk. Americans (at least in California), I'll say right now from the 3-4 years I've been here, really don't care about Canada. The conservatives see it as a vestigial extension of the US and liberals see it as some sort of socialist paradise, a place they'd "love" to move to in order to get away from the hateful politics of the states, but...they're not going to just yet. Both sides haven't bothered to learn about the actual country, they have images in their mind about it, both of which are profoundly misguided. The clip is notable for its content if you're a Canadian, but it's just another day at the office for the American news media and will never even register on the radar of political debate.
I miss home and I'm sad that I might be seen as falling into that category that Carlson was talking about, but know that it had nothing to do with money or quality of life. People are subjective, and circumstances dictate what they choose.
While America has a very strong amry, it's not part of the everyday lives of most of its citizens, and, therefore, most Americans don't go around wearing their show-off-their-big-military tight pants, and therefore don't think the things expressed in the video clip. Ann Coulter and Tucker Carlson are clowns, more or less literally. This kind of makes whatever they have to say irrelevant. They are to politics what Jerry Springer is to chartered psychology, which is why it's important to understand who they are before considering what they have to say.
*sigh*
This is the political equivalent of Jerry Springer. None of it should be taken straight up. Tucker Carlson sold his soul for a lifetime supply of ugly bowties and satirical conservative haircuts. I have no idea what language that website was in, but the fact that people who speak it care that much about the shadows on the cave walls of Canada-US relations is sad.
More like lieberals, am I right, miss Coulter? Uuuuugh.
Janita IS right, though - you can't make a corrolation between the strength of a country's military and its "military-centricedness". I mean, look at Switzerland - they're known for remaining steadfastedly neutral in any European conflict you can think of, and yet the government conscripts every one of its (male) citizens into the armed forces. In this case, you have a strong military whose tradition it is not to go out into the world and bonk heads, but rather to be absolutely resolute in not letting anybody come in (and, admittedly, that the country is practically surrounded by enormous mountains acting as a natural barrier helps a fair bit.) I mean, at least Finland smacked the Soviets around in WWII a bit.
And, for the record, if one can't figure out the name of a celebrity speaking on TV when her name is in enormous 36pt typeface right there on the screen, maybe one's problems extend beyond distinguishing between a socialist monarchy and, well, the world of, well, Starship Troopers. But what do I know. The INTERWEBOBLOGOSPHERE, she's a harsh mistress indeed.
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