[ALAN] COLMES: We could have taken them over? Is that what you want?
COULTER: Yes, but no. All I want is the western portion, the ski areas, the cowboys, and the right-wingers.
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COULTER: They don't even need to have an army, because they are protected, because they're on the same continent with the United States of America. If we were not the United States of America, Canada -- I mean, we're their trading partner. We keep their economy afloat.
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ELLIS HENICAN [Newsday columnist]: We share a lot of culture and a lot of interests. Why do we want to have to ridicule them and be deeply offended if they disagree with us?
COULTER: Because they speak French.
COLMES: There's something else I want to point out about the French. Is it's fashionable again on your side to denounce the French.
COULTER: We like the English-speaking Canadians.
From the November 30 edition of CNN's Wolf Blitzer Reports:
CARLSON: Without the U.S., Canada is essentially Honduras, but colder and much less interesting.
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CARLSON: We exploit your [addressing Canadian Member of Parliament Carolyn Parrish] 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.
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CARLSON: Canada needs the United States. The United States does not need Canada.
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CARLSON: I think if Canada were responsible for its own security -- you would be invaded by Norway if it weren't for the United States.
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CARLSON: [A]bsolutely the countries will remain allies and there will always be politicians who see it to their benefit to stomp on Bush dolls [referring to action taken by Parrish]. But no, I don't think the average Canadian feels -- the average Canadian is busy dogsledding.
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PARRISH: No, there's not a lot of dogsledding. There's a lot of dog walking, my friend. Not a lot of dogsledding.
CARLSON: Welcome to our century.
From the November 30 edition of CNN's Crossfire:
CARLSON: Canada's essentially -- essentially a made-in-Taiwan version of the United States.
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CARLSON: I'm surprised there was anybody left in Canada to attend the protests. I noticed that most sort of vigorous, ambitious Canadians, at least almost all comedians in Canada, come to the United States in the end. Doesn't that tell you something about the sort of limpid, flaccid nature of Canadian society, that people with ambition come here? What does that tell you about Canada?
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If you want to comment on all of the above, visit the original Media Matters article for contact info. You might also want to write to Carolyn Parrish--and we wonder why she says the things she does about the US when some Americans say things like this to her face.
Stumble It!
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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?
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"Yeah, well, [Mr. President] we used all five fingers because that's the way our mittens are made." Antonia Zerbisias
Naw, Canadians can't be surrender monkeys. We're not at war.
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Kory Yamashita
"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Remember Carolyn Parrish, the (formerly) Liberal MP who bad-mouthed the USA every chance she got? If memory serves, she was hailed as a hero for standing up to the USA and so on and so forth. A member of the Canadian government constantly bashes the USA and she is hailed as a hero, Ann Coulter, a book author and private citizen, makes some disparaging remarks and you want to demonize her. Wake up and smell the coffee folks.
As the rabid anti-americanism of the Liberal left in Canada intensifies and gets more publicity, these types of things will become more and more common. You can't keep bad-mouthing a 'friend' or 'ally' day in any day out, and expect to remain friends.
My point is simple and it is this, if you keep hating America, eventually, America will grow to hate you as well. Its not that complicated, its very simple. If Canada wants to be a friend to the United States then we can enjoy a mutually beneficial and prosperous relationship. If Canada instead chooses hate, bigotry, and hypocrisy (which they seem to be leaning towards more every day), then America will stop treating Canada as a friend.
Its not too late to put an end to the attacks on America and salvage what was once a good relationship between our two nations, but the USA will not just sit back and let Canada spit in our faces day after day without eventually saying enough. What you're hearing from Ann Coulter is only the beginning, the opening salvo in this American backlash to Canadian anti-americanism.
Its up to people like you, Canadian citizens, to say we are better than this, we are above this, and put an end to the constant bashing of the United States and the American people as a whole. If instead you choose to keep spewing forth venemous rhetoric and hateful feelings, you'll find those sentiments returned in spades. Hate us long enough and we'll start giving you REAL reasons to hate us. I'd rather be friends myself.
If you prefer to stay on the road that Canada is headed down, then don't act shocked or surprised when there is a backlash coming from America. Most Americans, right now, view Canada as a close friend and ally of the United States. But the sheer VOLUME of anti-american sentiment pouring out from Canada will change that with time if left unchecked.
You Canadians take great pride in your tolerance and self-proclaimed moral superiority, now is your chance to prove it by putting an end to this nonsense which helps nobody and hurts us all. Its really up to you, the Canadian citizens, to decide whether you want to remain friends or whether you want to allow this relationship with the United States to continue to worsen. I place the burden of this responsibility on all of your shoulders, surprise me and do the right thing.
For the record I predict Canada will choose to continue to embrace her hatred of all things American and things will get much, much, worse. And the United States will be blamed for it all.
I think you're confused maybe? Saddam Hussein was the harsh militant dictator, Iraq is a little over a month from having its own elections.
No thanks to Canada.
No thanks to Canada."
No thanks to the US!
The United States put Saddam incharge. It was their money, their technology and their training that made him into the terror he was, once they realised 'oh we've made a mistake here' what do they do? They put sanctions on Iraq furthering the strangle hold that Saddam had on his people. I suppose that they had to attack Iraq though didn't they? After all he was in on 9/11 with Osama according to the worse military intelligence anyone could make up. Wait a minute, who put Osama into the position he is in? Wait a minute, it was also the US. Wait a minute, how does that help anybody? Oh, that's right it doesn't!
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When an invasion can bring a country its freedom then unconsciousness is true happiness.
What's the backlash coming from I wonder? Just mean Americans deciding one day out of the blue to go ahead and start bashing Canada? Do you really believe that?
This is precisely WHY I believe the relations between Canada and the United States will continue to worsen. While Americans are slowly awakening to the fact that our neighbors to the north generally hate us and view us as an enemy, Canadians keep denying it day in and day out.
Until Canadians as a whole accept the fact that America has become Canada's favorite punching bag, then all the rest doesn't even matter.
From my viewpoint, as an American, the Canadians denying there is rampant anti-americanism is the same kind of closeted bigotry that usually follows a sentence like "I'm not a racist, but..."
But you are. You are a racist when you say that. The only thing that is different, is Canadians basically say "I don't hate America, but..."
Same thing. Its a very simple concept to grasp. America will not one day wake up and decide to hate Canada, I can assure you of this. But as the hateful rhetoric and demonizing of America continues in Canada, there will be a backlash.
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, what you are witnessing here is a REACTION. The action being the Canadian demonization of America and rampant anti-americanism. You can try to deny it all you want, but like I said, it doesn't take Einstein to see that which is obvious to seemingly everybody except for you Canadians.
There are FOUR lights!