Michael Coren
When I left Ontario I knew I would miss certain things, but one thing I was determined not to to miss was Michael Coren Live, the best Canadian political roundtable discussion show on the air. Why? Because it has something so many similar shows do not: balance and time to actually discuss the issues beyond a 30-second sound bite. That's the reason I went satellite rather than digital cable when we moved to BC.
An excerpt from his latest Toronto Sun column, this time talking about one of my pet peeves: smug, superior Canadians (and others) who "know" everything better.
...frankly, I am sick of the smugness, the hypocrisy and the sheer hatred evinced by so many people towards the United States.
I've had enough of certain risible Canadians inflating themselves by claiming superiority over their southern neighbours.
I'm tired of the America-bashing from mediocrities the world over, and the blaming of every conceivable problem on Washington.
The last straw was, in itself, not particularly significant. It was when cyclist Lance Armstrong was spat at during the Tour de France. Spat at because he is an American.
I've had enough of certain risible Canadians inflating themselves by claiming superiority over their southern neighbours.
I'm tired of the America-bashing from mediocrities the world over, and the blaming of every conceivable problem on Washington.
The last straw was, in itself, not particularly significant. It was when cyclist Lance Armstrong was spat at during the Tour de France. Spat at because he is an American.
That kind of contradicts that "we don't hate you, we hate your government/George Bush" line that's popular when bashing the U.S.
We do not know his politics, but his girlfriend, Sheryl Crow, is an opponent of George Bush. That didn't matter. The man was American and thus worthy of disdain.
Betcha Sheryl's telling him that he "deserved" it because look at what America has done to the world.
Look indeed.
For leaving half a million men on the battlefields of Africa, Asia and Europe during the Second World War, a conflict the United States could easily have sat out. For effectively forcing Japan to declare war and thus joining the alliance of light against the gang of darkness. God bless America.
For that farm boy from Nebraska who had never even heard of Normandy or Sicily, who wanted so much to walk back from the hill but continued on, the bullets flying over and around him. For his not turning back. For his determination to do his duty and for his dedication to freedom. God bless America.
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For the billions in foreign aid, greater per capita than any other country in the world. For the food, clean water, medicine, machinery given to every continent on Earth. For the Marshall Plan and Marshall Dillon, for Tom Sawyer and Tom Hanks, for New York and for the New Deal. God bless America.
For that farm boy from Nebraska who had never even heard of Normandy or Sicily, who wanted so much to walk back from the hill but continued on, the bullets flying over and around him. For his not turning back. For his determination to do his duty and for his dedication to freedom. God bless America.
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For the billions in foreign aid, greater per capita than any other country in the world. For the food, clean water, medicine, machinery given to every continent on Earth. For the Marshall Plan and Marshall Dillon, for Tom Sawyer and Tom Hanks, for New York and for the New Deal. God bless America.
But, of course, in Canada we're better than all this, aren't we? Aren't we?
Do the Eurocrats our politicians suck up to really know how much better we are because we're trying to be so like those losers in Paris: morally ambivalent, intellectually smug, and righteously bankrupt of any ability to show true leadership?
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