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The French were singled out as leading the race in
the hate games against America. And for all those
who still held any doubt about where French sympathies
lie, Gibson and his team put that issue to rest. In
an alarming segment, exclusive footage was shown of
an unidentified street in Paris, where folks were
sitting around in cafes and going about their business
on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. This news-reel
was contrasted with shots of New York City, where
it appears every road in Manhattan was shut down by
weeping throngs of mourners. Having spent more than
a few weeks in France over the years, I might add
that not only do the “frogs” frequent
sidewalk cafes, drinking Pernod and engaging in other
anti-American activities, every September 11th, but
also on the anniversaries of the storming of Normandy,
the Treaty of Versailles, and even their very own
Bastille Day. Friends of freedom they are not.
John Gibson also reminded viewers that a Frenchman
(Thierry Meyssan) was to blame for all those conspiracy
theory websites and water-cooler kooks who argue that
the Bush administration may have had prior knowledge,
or actually a hand, in the U.S. terror attacks so
they could set up a fascist state at home while engaging
in imperialistic ventures abroad.
Thankfully, the program omitted mentioning that senile
writer Gore Vidal and his hysterical essay “The
Enemy Within.” Published in some underground
yellow rag called The London Observer, the essay was
likely read only by a few drunken Brits on the dole.
And, let’s get serious. We certainly don’t
need to highlight those degenerate Americans, like
Vidal, who are so pretentious as to live abroad while
criticizing us back in the States.
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.
If anyone doubts the level of hatred foreigners have
for America, it should be noted that in writing the
book “Hating America,” upon which the
TV special was based, Gibson felt so personally threatened
as a United States citizen that he didn’t dare
to walk the streets of any foreign capitals to mix
it up with the locals, drink a brewski, and chat about
life as we know it. Thanks to the wonders of modern
technology he was able to assess the entire situation
from the safety of the FNC offices.
So is all hope lost? Is America condemned to being
hated ad infinitum? Well, Gibson’s program wisely
reminded viewers that millions around the globe still
dream of landing on our shores to till the amber waves
of grain or open a 7-11. Sure, it has been a long
time since a Norwegian applied for a green card. But
the fact that so many would-be immigrants now come
from Central America and South-East Asia (where unfortunately
we killed a few million women and children in unprovoked
U.S. military excursions) should prove once and for
all just how attractive we really are to ourselves.
| D.A. Blyler is the author of
the novel Steffi’s Club. His essays have
appeared at Salon.com, The Korean Herald, Bangkok’s
The Nation, and other international and online
publications. A lecturer at Rajabhat University
Rajanagarindra, he makes his home in Thailand.
His latest novel can be purchased at Amazon.com. |
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