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Oh Jesus.

So many of you might have seen the little compilation of the US "coverage" of Bush's late November visit to Canada that's floating around the internet right now. For those of you who haven't had the pleasure of witnessing this debacle (check it out here), it's basically a series of clips of ultra-conservative biatch Ann Coulter and bow-tied penis "from the right" Tucker Carlson, on Fox News and CNN respectively, insulting Canada with a series of retarded misnomers and half-hacked stereotypes.

Quoth Ann Coulter, with an infuriating smirk: "When you're allowed to exist on the same continent of the United States of America, protecting you with a nuclear shield around you, you're polite and you support us when we've been attacked on our own soil...They better hope the United States doesn't roll over one night and crush them."

Oh yeah? We need protection eh? How about this: THE REST OF THE WORLD DOESN'T HATE US. ONLY YOU.

Quoth Tucker Carlson, basking in unilateral smugness and obviously needing a chair shot to the face: "We exploit your natural resources, that's true. But in the end, Canadians with ambition move to the United States. That has been sort of the trend for decades. It says something not very good about Canada. And I think it makes Canadians feel bad about themselves and I understand that."

Maybe Canadians move to America because, at one time, we were stupid enough to let your media circus north of the border and now your high budget advertising and USA-centric programming is killing our own independent culture?

Oh there's more, much more. Check the video for minutes of infuriating fun!

As easy as it might be, I somewhat feel like we shouldn't rope all Americans into this antagonistic and presumptuous isolationist viewpoint, but we should certainly be concerned that the States is slowly but surely heading towards the right-wing mentality exhibited by these two fucking morons. Bush is just the beginning. I mean seriously, the attitudes exhibited by Coulter and Bow-Tie Carlson are neo-colonialist and certainly wavering towards fascist and somehow this garbage was broadcasted on national television? The media both reflects and influences social consciousness, and commentary like this only furthers my suspicions that American politics are delving deeper and deeper into a nationalistic hole, content to be alone with their superiority complex and blissfully ignorant of the attitudes in the countries around them. What happens when the other voices of reason aren't sitting beside the ultra-right to hastily silence them and jovially explain away their offensiveness?

But don't blame all of America...yet. Give them a chance to kill Ann Coulter and Tucker Carlson first and rejoin the world stage.

Posted by Chris at 03:26 PM >> Commentations (10)