News Flash!

[thebitterguy]

It turns out Americans really DO hate us.

Comments

[tfbretz.livejournal.com]

Not me. In fact, if you'd care to sponsor a 43 year old American child and his family for adoption and eventual Canadian citizenship, I certainly wouldn't turn it down.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

How totally bizarre.

I'm especially intrigued that the candidate has been asking the RNC to pull the ad and they won't.

But you're better at hockey...

[gamera-spinning.livejournal.com]

Well, I've been a fan of Rush for many years, and my grandparents grew up in Canada, however Tom Servo has some pent-up issues (http://youtube.com/watch?v=VwqrxTXsga4&search=mst3k).

[lowercaseem.livejournal.com]

The ad (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9G0ajGo_wM) in question is kind of silly...

[lowercaseem.livejournal.com]

But the attack takes the form of an implication that if the Republicans aren't in power then there'll be nobody left to handle the North Korea situation and the world will have to turn to Canada. This is even sillier. The Americans have made a conscious effort to not deal with North Korea lately...

[thebitterguy]

The main issue is that it implies we've been sitting around doing golf claps instead of, you know, fighting the Taliban and trying to stabilize Afghanistan for the past five years.

[rentagurkha.livejournal.com]

Actually the main point of the ad is to imply that Harold Ford (who's black) has sex with white women. The Canada crack is really just filler, and even there it's really supposed to imply that Democrats don't think North Korea is important.

Re: But you're better at hockey...

[thebitterguy]

Well, you know, they're so in favour of local representation and small government that... No, I got nothing.

Re: But you're better at hockey...

[brand-of-amber.livejournal.com]

The only way it doesn't look like the Republicans are total fuck wits is if the guy is talking out both sides of his mouth.

Which is likely.

[lowercaseem.livejournal.com]

That's just how Canadians are viewing it (by and large). If we weren't so self-conscious about our role on the world stage, this attack ad would have slipped by completely unnoticed... but it feeds two strong Canadian traits: antiAmericanism and fear of inferiority.

I take for granted American ignorance.

[brand-of-amber.livejournal.com]

Following that link I get an add that says nothing about Canada and has no blondes. I am disapointed.

[lowercaseem.livejournal.com]

Damn it!

I followed another youtube link before I copy-and-pasted it...

This is (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWkrwENN5CQ) the one they're up in arms about.

[brand-of-amber.livejournal.com]

Ha, that's funny!

I mean, smarmy and evil and all that, but funny in the sense that it doesn't mean to be.

[gnaremoob.livejournal.com]

thanks for posting that I was looking for it

[thebitterguy]

Yeah, my parents have never really forgiven me for having sex with white women.

[rentagurkha.livejournal.com]

In this context, of course, "black" is meant in that special Southern way that means "any discernable non-pasty-white ancestry". Southern being the operative term, of course.

[rentagurkha.livejournal.com]

Better yet...here's a radio ad from the same candidate that has jungle drums (http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2006/oct/25/tn_sen_corker_radio_ad_has_tom_tom_drums_during_mentions_of_ford) playing every time his opponent is mentioned.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

Wait, what? That's bad? Why is that bad?

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

That's a pretty mean way to talk about your new penal colony.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Awwww, most of us don't hate you! It's just the Republicans you didn't vote for.

No, it doesn't matter you're not a citizen.

Although come to think of it, your ethnicity would probably get you in deep shit with them too.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Errrrm, no. Trust me, as somebody with a father from Vermont and a mother from Texas, the only difference between a racist north of the Mason-Dixon is he won't tell you he hates you to your face.

Another perspective...

[absinthe-dot-ca.livejournal.com]

Having spent about half of the last two years "among the savages" (i.e. in various locations of the US as part of my job), the average American seems to view Canada as being the slightly dull-witted second cousin - "good for you, Timmy, that's a very nice picture of a tree". I always have fun pointing out the reason presidential inaugurations are held outside in February...

[thebitterguy]

Okay, but there's no help allowed in the wolverine wrestling portion of the interview.

Re: But you're better at hockey...

[thebitterguy]

True, we are quite awesome at hockey.

That MST3K song about Canada always makes me giggle/quiver with rage.

[thebitterguy]

No kidding. A complete lack of gratitude.

[thebitterguy]

I appear to be batting 1000 with that wing of the GOP today.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'd be shoved into the ovens right behind you. It's not that they're racists, you see, they just hate anybody who isn't exactly like them.