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Dumb things some Americans say about Canada
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| EvilTree |
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/serv.../International/
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US Pundits bash Canada
By BETH GORHAM
Monday, December 19, 2005 Posted at 10:14 PM EST
Canadian Press
Washington — Canada has been described lately by a conservative U.S. television host as “a stalker” and a “retarded cousin.”
Another pundit recently asked if Canadians weren't getting “a little too big for their britches.”
There's been a spate of Canada-bashing by right-wing media commentators in the United States ever since Prime Minister Paul Martin's complaints about lumber penalties and U.S. policy on climate change. His remarks prompted an unusual rebuke last week from the American ambassador.
The attacks on Canada have had web bloggers typing overtime and a non-profit group that's monitoring the trend, Media Matters for America, says it's disturbing.
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Yet Paul Waldman, a senior fellow for the group, said Monday the criticism is confined to the usual faction that erupts whenever there's criticism of President George W. Bush's administration and it probably won't last past Canada's Jan. 23 election.
“There are always going to be occasions when it pops up. But Canada is never going to occupy an extraordinary amount of American thought,” said Mr. Waldman.
“It's more like: ‘Who can we beat on today?' It's never going to reach the heights of animosity toward France in the run-up to the Iraq war.”
Last week, MSNBC host Tucker Carlson, a well-known conservative pundit, let loose with a string of anti-Canada rants.
“Anybody with any ambition at all, or intelligence, has left Canada and is now living in New York,” he said.
“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.”
Mr. Carlson also said it's pointless to tell Canada to stop criticizing the United States.
“It only eggs them on. Canada is essentially a stalker, stalking the United States, right? Canada has little pictures of us in its bedroom, right?”
“It's unrequited love between Canada and the United States. We, meanwhile, don't even know Canada's name. We pay no attention at all,” he said.
The day before, Fox News host Neil Cavuto highlighted Mr. Martin's remark at a news conference that the United States is a “reticent nation” lacking a “global conscience” on climate change.
“So have the Canadians gotten a little too big for their britches?” Mr. Cavuto asked.
“Could our neighbours to the north soon be our enemies?”
Douglas MacKinnon, a press secretary to former Republican senator Bob Dole, also recently accused Canada of harbouring terrorists.
“Can Canada really be considered our friend any more?” he asked in a recent commentary in the right-wing Washington Times newspaper.
“What other question can be asked when the Canadian government not only willingly allows Islamic terrorists into their country but does nothing to stop them from entering our nation?”
U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins warned Mr. Martin last week to tone down anti-American jabs or risk hurting bilateral relations. But Mr. Martin was unrepentant, saying he would “not be dictated to” by the United States and his hard line appears to be resonating with some voters.
While the offensive from American pundits isn't widespread, it still has the potential to affect cross-border ties, said Mr. Waldman.
“On Capitol Hill, the TVs are turned to Fox News. This kind of media environment is what the White House pays attention to,” he said.
“That hostility is probably shared by a lot of people in the administration.”
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:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
While I recognize that these kind of Yanks are a minority, but it's still dumb.
PS: Margs, I can't find that bloody thread, so don't kill me. :p |
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| Euphorica |
carlson is obviously a douche bag.
last I checked the most amount of canadians living anywhere else in the world other then canada is in...California. hrmmm.
*cue diginut* all americans I know know more about canada then we ourselves do :stongue: :haha: :rolleyes: :eyespop: |
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| VERTiG0 |
| Sensationalism is the name of the game in the US of A! |
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| nusty |
| I wish we could turn down the suck knob for American intelligence about foriegn policy and international relations. If we are the retarted cousin, they are the grade 8 bully that dropped out of highschool in grade 11 and keeps talking about how smart they are 30 years later. ooooo they might beat us up..... Tucker Carlson is quite possibly the biggest talker I've ever heard. I don't see how 'educated' people can make the kind of comments he makes. I'd like him to invite John Stewart on tv with him so he can get spanked again. |
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| Magnetonium |
I've grown accustomed to ignoring such silly American comments, especially after seeing to what they do to our lumber, beef, electricity AND water exports and all the brutal duties they place on them, violating NAFTA and WTC protocols. Americans say one thing, do another. Make fun of us while telling us to keep exporting for cheap prices our water, electricity, beef and lumber. |
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| Jayx1 |
We kind of deserve it.
We have an american bashing prime minister that is using bigotry and patriotism to score political points. Do you think we'd sit back and take it if the american president called us immoral and without concience?
Not to mention the past infamous remarks by our leaders including calling americans "bastards" and the president a "moron".
Maybe canada should step back and see why it deserves some negative american attention.
Maybe we should re-evaluate our leadership who is stirring up this anti canadian sentiment in the first place. |
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| Irishaddict |
| quote: | Originally posted by nusty
I wish we could turn down the suck knob for American intelligence about foriegn policy and international relations. If we are the retarted cousin, they are the grade 8 bully that dropped out of highschool in grade 11 and keeps talking about how smart they are 30 years later. ooooo they might beat us up..... Tucker Carlson is quite possibly the biggest talker I've ever heard. I don't see how 'educated' people can make the kind of comments he makes. I'd like him to invite John Stewart on tv with him so he can get spanked again. |
Beautifully said. :) |
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| Jayx1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by nusty
I wish we could turn down the suck knob for American intelligence about foriegn policy and international relations. If we are the retarted cousin, they are the grade 8 bully that dropped out of highschool in grade 11 and keeps talking about how smart they are 30 years later. ooooo they might beat us up..... Tucker Carlson is quite possibly the biggest talker I've ever heard. I don't see how 'educated' people can make the kind of comments he makes. I'd like him to invite John Stewart on tv with him so he can get spanked again. |
Jean Chretien and Paul Martin is no better with their bigotted comments about the US. |
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| Special K |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jayx1
We kind of deserve it.
We have an american bashing prime minister that is using bigotry and patriotism to score political points. Do you think we'd sit back and take it if the american president called us immoral and without concience?
Not to mention the past infamous remarks by our leaders including calling americans "bastards" and the president a "moron".
Maybe canada should step back and see why it deserves some negative american attention.
Maybe we should re-evaluate our leadership who is stirring up this anti canadian sentiment in the first place. |
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| yankeeBaby |
As is with all threads like this one, please refrain from generalizing by saying "Americans." (Or even, "canadians"). It implies that the group as a whole has the same opinions on an issue.
I don't know or care who this Carlson guy is, but I am positive that he does not speak for everybody.
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: |
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| IbizaGuy |
| Right Wingers are ing ass holes. All they care about is their ing money, bastards. |
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| EvilTree |
| quote: | Originally posted by yankeeBaby
As is with all threads like this one, please refrain from generalizing by saying "Americans." (Or even, "canadians"). It implies that the group as a whole has the same opinions on an issue.
I don't know or care who this Carlson guy is, but I am positive that he does not speak for everybody.
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: |
Note that I said *some* Americans. :) |
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