Hating America, page 1


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Topic started on 29-11-2004 @ 10:43 AM by LostSailor
Our country is under attack, but instead of bombs and bullets — the weapons of choice are hateful words and images aimed at distorting American policy and image around the world.

Is this true?

Are the Arab, French, British, etc. media distorting American policy? I know the people of these countries are growing increasingly intollerant of us. Is this because of the media reporting being done here?

Now that we are the sole "Super Power" are they afraid of us?


America, in short, is a mess—a cultural wasteland, an economic nightmare, a political abomination, an international misfit, outlaw, parasite, and pariah. If Americans don’t know this already, it is, in Hertsgaard’s view, precisely because they are Americans: “Foreigners,” he proposes, “can see things about America that natives cannot. . . . Americans can learn from their perceptions, if we choose to.” What he fails to acknowledge, however, is that most foreigners never set foot in the United States, and that the things they think they know about it are consequently based not on first-hand experience but on school textbooks, books by people like Michael Moore, movies about spies and gangsters, “Ricki Lake,” “C.S.I.,” and, above all, the daily news reports in their own national media. What, one must therefore ask, are their media telling them? What aren’t they telling them? And what are the agendas of those doing the telling? Such questions, crucial to a study of the kind Hertsgaard pretends to be making, are never asked here. Citing a South African restaurateur’s assertion that non-Americans “have an advantage over [Americans], because we know everything about you and you know nothing about us,” Hertsgaard tells us that this is a good point, but it’s not: non-Americans are always saying this to Americans, but when you poke around a bit, you almost invariably discover that what they “know” about America is very wide of the mark.
www.hudsonreview.com...


Thanks to Michael Moore's footage of Bush in an elementary school classroom on the day of 9/11, we've heard countless unfair jokes about the president and "My Pet Goat." But in "Hating America" John Gibson revealed that a "scapegoat" is what George W. Bush truly is, a scapegoat for all the jealousy, envy, and hatred foreigners have for the United States. Viewers were warned not to buy in to that leftist propaganda about people hating the administration but still liking us as a people. When you see protests abroad where Europeans are carrying signs with a bastardized visage of our president, it might just as well be the Statue of Liberty they're disfiguring so hatefully. That protesters never seem to actually put Lady Liberty on their vile signs is only because our president's photo is so much easier to find on the Internet. www.amazon.com... read this review.

www.religioustolerance.org...

I'll add more as I find it... but I have stuff to do right now.

Let's try to keep this clean people
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