The US Is A Great Place To Be Anti-American
They bite the hand that feeds them. Waddayagunnadoaboudit?
Anti-Americanism is on the wane at last. All over the world, Americans are being fêted once again as farsighted, liberating heroes.
Al Gore has won a Nobel Peace Prize, an Oscar and an Emmy, the triple crown of recognition from the self-adoring keepers of bien-pensant, elite liberal, global orthodoxy. Michael Moore is treated like a prophet in Cannes and Venice, as he peddles his tales of an America that poisons its poor, sends its blacks off to war and shoots itself. Whenever a loquacious Dixie Chick or a contumacious Sean Penn utters some excoriating remark about the depravity of his or her own country, audiences around the world nod their heads in sympathetic agreement. Bill Clinton, of course, is a god. Though protocol dictates that he may not say things that are too unkind about the country he once led, a nod and a wink will suffice.
It has always amused me that the same people who denounce America as a seething cesspit of blind obscurantist bigotry can’t see the irony that America itself produces its own best critics. When there’s a scab to be picked on the American body politic, no one does it with more loving attention, more rigorous focus on the detail, than Americans themselves.
It has always been this way. The fiercest and most effective opponents of US foreign policy in the 1960s were not the students in Paris or the Politburo in North Vietnam. They were Jane Fonda, Bobby Kennedy and Marvin Gaye.
Today I can only laugh when I see the popular portrayal of George Bush’s America in much of the international media. Supposedly serious commentators will say, without evident irony, that free speech is under attack, that Bush’s wiretapping, Guantanamo-building, tourist-fingerprinting regime is terrifying Americans into quiet, desperate acquiescence in the country’s proliferating crimes.
The truth is that America not only harbours the most eloquent and noisy anti-Americans in its own breast, it provides a safe haven for people to come from all over the world to condemn it.
Take a stroll through almost any American university campus and you will hear a cacophony of voices in a hundred different languages, slamming everything America does, from fast food to hedge-fund capitalism. For years one of America’s most celebrated academics was Edward Said, the Palestinian agitator-cum-professor, who lived high on the hog at Columbia University, near the pinnacle of the American intellectual establishment, dispensing his wisdom about US wrongs in the Middle East.
Hollywood is the global mecca for angry denouncers of everything American. From all over they come, forcing themselves to live in their green-lawned mansions carefully tended by cheap migrant labour from south of the Border. This autumn, unsuspecting Americans (and everyone else, of course) will be treated to an especially unsettling stream of antiwar, anti-American propaganda, much of it produced in Hollywood by foreigners – such as this weekend’s likely box-office hit, Rendition.
And where would the world get its daily media diet of horror stories about what a ghastly country the place is if its reporters weren’t all comfortably pavilioned inside America, where they make a generous living happily devouring the hand that generously feeds them?
Full Times Online article By Gerard Baker HERE.
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I won’t see those movies. I know what they are. Propaganda of the vast Left Wing Media Machine.
They have only one tactic. Tell the same old lie over and over in as many different ways they can until the uninitiated come to believe their must be something to it because it has been told so often.
October 19th, 2007 at 8:54 pmGrenade!
October 19th, 2007 at 9:26 pmdadeo you’ve got the right idea…
FRAG OUT!
October 19th, 2007 at 10:06 pmBoy that article title is an understatement, if there ever was one.
October 19th, 2007 at 10:36 pmWhat do the circle A and circle E stand for?
October 19th, 2007 at 11:07 pmOh come on, we used the grenades the last time and they quit moving. Can’t we just chase them around with the humvee for awhile and then run them over when quit playing..They can be such poor sports about it.
October 20th, 2007 at 12:17 amThe A in the circle is the symbol for Anarchy or the Anarchist movement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy_symbol
I have read that the Circle-E is supposed to be a symbol for Egalitarianism, or Equality.
October 20th, 2007 at 2:06 amI never understood the logic of insulting the cou try that has protected you. Disagree with it, but not insult it.
October 20th, 2007 at 3:54 amThere is a limit to tolerance & these beasts have crossed it, as have many Liberal Politicians.
We need to prosecute these sedition & treason!
October 20th, 2007 at 5:56 amWe should try all these people for treason. Afterall their defiance gives comfort to the enemy.
October 20th, 2007 at 7:42 amHey all!! Stay tuned, the Marines are on the way! Or for your Army Pukes, the Cavalry is coming!
Hollywood will be getting a wake up call fairly soon. So stay tuned for more details.
The problem is not limited to movies, Cartoon Network has a show that portrays a sitting President in a disrespectful manner that has never been seen in this country before the second term of our esteemed Commander in Chief.
What these people don’t realize is their right to hate America, bad mouth the military, burn the flag, and disrespect the President of the United States are rights that they will find no where else in the world. These rights are provided to them by America and defended for them by the United States Armed Forces.
Go to Syria and protest the nuclear facility that was just blown up Israel. Go to China and protest the growth of greenhouse gas emissions. Go to any muslim country and put a statue of mohamad in a jar of urine and call it art.
Go to the Gaza Strip and burn a Hamas flag. If you live to tell the tale I would like to hear about it.
Oh yeah, you can only get away with that stuff in the most intolerant, and facist nation of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!
October 20th, 2007 at 7:49 amA claymore might be best…
October 20th, 2007 at 4:25 pmWell if were going to do it, a 105mm w/Beehive will accomplish this task quickly
October 20th, 2007 at 7:37 pmNo sittin down on your butts
The world don’t owe you
No sittin down in a rutt
I want to show you
Let’s work
October 22nd, 2007 at 7:36 amBe proud
Stand tall
Touch the clouds
Haha, Jim, I was actually thinking of calling in a Shake and Bake, fire for effect. But then again, my M1-A1 with a mine plow or even a MCLC would do wonders.
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:32 am