Fox News slams Canadians in Afghanistan
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http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/War_Terror/2009/03/22/8847661-sun.html
As Canadians mourn the loss of four more fallen soldiers in Afghanistan, a videotaped segment of an American TV talk show where panelists mock Canadian soldiers as slackers is making the rounds on the Internet.
The five-minute segment, which aired recently on Fox News late-night program Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld and later posted on YouTube.com, features American panelists suggesting Canadian soldiers need time off for “manicures and pedicures.”
The item aired after Gen. Andrew Leslie, the Canadian Forces Chief of Land Staff, told a Senate committee the military would need a one-year break from operations after the mission in Afghanistan winds down in 2011.
“The Canadian military wants to take a breather to do some yoga, paint landscapes, run on the beach in gorgeous white capri pants,” Gutfeld said with a sneer.
Another panelist Doug Benson said he was unaware Canadian troops were on the ground in Afghanistan.
“I didn’t even know they were in the war. I thought that’s where you go if you don’t want to fight — you go chill in Canada,” he said.
The segment has been posted online (www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcJn5XlbSFk) by an outraged Canadian who titled it “How to Lose Friends and Alienate Countries.”
Fox News was not immediately available for comment.
Ottawa-based Conservative commentator Geoff Norquay called the segment “insulting and beneath contempt.”
“In a week when we lost four more brave soldiers, Canada deserves better from this so-called news network,” he said. “I really wish I subscribed to Fox News so I could cancel it.”
Steve Staples, director of the Ottawa-based Rideau Institute, called it a “shameful display” to laugh it up at the expense of families who have lost loved ones.
“The dismissal of Canadian efforts in Afghanistan simply rubs salt in the wounds of Canadian families whose sons and daughters have been injured or killed in the war.”
Liberal MP and defence critic Denis Coderre urged Canadians to write to Fox News to protest the panel and said Canada should raise the issue with U.S. President Barack Obama.
“What’s a disgrace is that a lot of people are watching this and it is promoting stereotypes,” he said.
Calling Canada’s military “the best little army in the world,” retired Gen. Lewis MacKenzie lambasted the American panelists as “distasteful” and showing an “appalling ignorance.”
The bodies of the four fallen Canadian soldiers will be repatriated to Canada today, three days after their deaths in two separate bomb arracks in Afghanistan. Flag-draped caskets of Master Cpl. Scott Vernelli, 28, Cpl. Tyler Crooks, 24, Trooper Jack Bouthillier, 20, and Trooper Corey Joseph Hayes, 22, will arrive at CFB Trenton for a repatriation ceremony.
As Canadians mourn the loss of four more fallen soldiers in Afghanistan, a videotaped segment of an American TV talk show where panelists mock Canadian soldiers as slackers is making the rounds on the Internet.
The five-minute segment, which aired recently on Fox News late-night program Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld and later posted on YouTube.com, features American panelists suggesting Canadian soldiers need time off for “manicures and pedicures.”
The item aired after Gen. Andrew Leslie, the Canadian Forces Chief of Land Staff, told a Senate committee the military would need a one-year break from operations after the mission in Afghanistan winds down in 2011.
“The Canadian military wants to take a breather to do some yoga, paint landscapes, run on the beach in gorgeous white capri pants,” Gutfeld said with a sneer.
Another panelist Doug Benson said he was unaware Canadian troops were on the ground in Afghanistan.
“I didn’t even know they were in the war. I thought that’s where you go if you don’t want to fight — you go chill in Canada,” he said.
The segment has been posted online (www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcJn5XlbSFk) by an outraged Canadian who titled it “How to Lose Friends and Alienate Countries.”
Fox News was not immediately available for comment.
Ottawa-based Conservative commentator Geoff Norquay called the segment “insulting and beneath contempt.”
“In a week when we lost four more brave soldiers, Canada deserves better from this so-called news network,” he said. “I really wish I subscribed to Fox News so I could cancel it.”
Steve Staples, director of the Ottawa-based Rideau Institute, called it a “shameful display” to laugh it up at the expense of families who have lost loved ones.
“The dismissal of Canadian efforts in Afghanistan simply rubs salt in the wounds of Canadian families whose sons and daughters have been injured or killed in the war.”
Liberal MP and defence critic Denis Coderre urged Canadians to write to Fox News to protest the panel and said Canada should raise the issue with U.S. President Barack Obama.
“What’s a disgrace is that a lot of people are watching this and it is promoting stereotypes,” he said.
Calling Canada’s military “the best little army in the world,” retired Gen. Lewis MacKenzie lambasted the American panelists as “distasteful” and showing an “appalling ignorance.”
The bodies of the four fallen Canadian soldiers will be repatriated to Canada today, three days after their deaths in two separate bomb arracks in Afghanistan. Flag-draped caskets of Master Cpl. Scott Vernelli, 28, Cpl. Tyler Crooks, 24, Trooper Jack Bouthillier, 20, and Trooper Corey Joseph Hayes, 22, will arrive at CFB Trenton for a repatriation ceremony.
That sure does show the ignorance of some Americans. They are so self centered. They don't even know or have any gratefulness to the folks who are helping them. Now that's ignorant
We did.train said:
As has been previously pointed out, perhaps it is poor taste to have a program like "Red Eye" on a news network and certainly this particular broadcast was inane. But the program airs at three o'clock in the morning, and occupies the same sort of market niche as Jon Stewart.
Fuck Fox News
Bunch of fucking fuckers! Fuck them and the fucking idiocy they bring to the world.
Bunch of fucking fuckers! Fuck them and the fucking idiocy they bring to the world.
How could any of you give these idiots any respect or credence, they sound like a bunch of young, immature university teens hanging out and having a beer and who are so ignorant of the world, they're just barely getting out of their diapers.
I would have serious concerns if a respectful US politician made those comments. I have many US friends and none, and I repeat, none think the way those idiots do.
I would have serious concerns if a respectful US politician made those comments. I have many US friends and none, and I repeat, none think the way those idiots do.
Unfortunately, its these idiots that are forming Canadians' opinions of Americans. The ones you speak of are fairly silent. I think many Americans DO feel this way. Maybe not so extreme, but they consider us small, weak, and not worthy of respect.Mia.Colpa said:
Things like this is why other countrys hate the americans, they don't think before they say and are ignorant to what goes on in the war! We have been put into a position to help them but, things like this are the true colors of the country south of us!
The following is called a syllogism - a 3 step thinking process
IF the USA invaded Iraq for its oil under the pretense of something else
AND we have the worlds' largest reserves of oil in the tar sands and at some point we refuse to exploit these tar sands for USA benefit
THEN would not the USA create a pretense to invade us? If you think the answer is "no way" go to the back of the class IMHO
IF the USA invaded Iraq for its oil under the pretense of something else
AND we have the worlds' largest reserves of oil in the tar sands and at some point we refuse to exploit these tar sands for USA benefit
THEN would not the USA create a pretense to invade us? If you think the answer is "no way" go to the back of the class IMHO
Fox obviously believes these clowns can attract an audience. Which doesn't say much for the standards of Fox management, or their opinions of their market. But it is after all the network home of the buffoon whose debating technique peaks at, "Shaaaduup!", so they fit in seamlessly.Hangman said:
Canadians' proudest boast at times is that we have nothing to compare with Fox News
I'm disappointed that high ranking officials in our government and military even felt the need to acknowledge the ignorant bullshit spewed from this late night show comedy show that nobody watches aired on a network with a less than stellar reputation for journalistic integrity.
Who cares what these idiots say about us? Pointing out their ignorance and demanding an apology just creates more publicity and all of a sudden a significant number of people in the US and Canada are actually aware of what happened on this show.
Who cares what these idiots say about us? Pointing out their ignorance and demanding an apology just creates more publicity and all of a sudden a significant number of people in the US and Canada are actually aware of what happened on this show.
First of all, FOX News is an oxymoron.
Secondly, would you expect any better from them?
Remember this is the same fat-assed, dipping-sauce, gas-guzzling, priest-fucking, gun-toting country who fucked the world over with their "superior finance system". And are probably looking for someone else to blame for that.
But of coarse I'm speaking just generally, not about all of them.
Secondly, would you expect any better from them?
Remember this is the same fat-assed, dipping-sauce, gas-guzzling, priest-fucking, gun-toting country who fucked the world over with their "superior finance system". And are probably looking for someone else to blame for that.
But of coarse I'm speaking just generally, not about all of them.
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