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| Fox News is the Source of All Evil - Canadian Ambassador McKenna |
| 2005-07-05 |
| Sunday, July 3, 2005 10:19 a.m. EDT Canada's Ambassador Declares War on Fox News Canada's ambassador to the United States has launched an all-out war on Fox News Channel. Ambassador Frank McKenna has undertaken a public relations effort to reach the more than 1 million Canadians living in the United States, a group he calls the "Canadian diaspora." Diaspora - Refugees dispersed because people have died waiting for what some weasely bureaucrat determined was "elective" surgery which wasn't so elective... McKenna says the effort is to boost support for Canada here, and to counter what he says is the "Fox factor," referring to the Fox News Channel, America's most popular cable news network, and its most highly rated show, "The O'Reilly Factor." That devil's tool, that O'reilly! McKenna told the Toronto Star that he wants to arm Canadians with facts that will enable them to debate Americans and to lobby when Washington makes decisions that can hurt Canadians. Lets debate pacifist socialist leanings which are naive about the threat of Muslim extremists, and Canadians attempts to pacify them by political correctness But most importantly, he says, Canadians in the U.S. should counteract Fox News, alleging that the network often spreads disinformation and creates a false picture of his homeland. Spreads 'disinformation' - This means those Fox guys are onto the Canadian Liberal Party, and talk about it. "We know we're a bit of prey for the Fox News type of shows," he told the Star. The vultures are circling! The ambassador said he has sent out 6,000 pieces of literature to Canadians in his battle with Fox, and plans to mail to some 100,000 Canadians in the weeks ahead. Canadian tax dollars at work! McKenna said he launched this campaign because "having dinner every month or two with some interesting people is not enough to move" Washington. The ambassador hopes that his new network of Canadians "will be in the millions." And they told two friends, and so on, and so on... "Then all of a sudden we've multiplied our efforts exponentially and we have a lot more people out there armed with information," he said. Armed with information? That is all Canadians can do as guns are all but banned, except for criminals. Calling on Canadians wintering in Florida, retirees in Arizona, Hollywood comedians and actors, investment bankers in New York and professors and students at universities across the United States, McKenna said they should carry these messages to Americans: Usual suspects ; Dan Aykroyd sez - boycott FOX NEWS? Canada is the largest source of imported crude oil in the U.S., bigger than Saudi Arabia or the yet untested reserves of Iraq. Yes, oil mostly from Alberta, one of the few Canadian provinces who has a voting populace who is not completely airheaded... And Albertans who are holing up other parts of the great Socialist north. Canada has rotated 13,500 troops in the war on terror, has committed $300 million to rebuilding Iraq and is about to deploy a reconstruction team to Afghanistan. Thank you for Afghanistan. I really mean it. But your Francophyllic attitude towards Iraq is really uncalled for... Committ money at profit? None of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists entered the U.S. from Canada. I guess you were just lucky... Canada-U.S. trade supports more than 5 million American jobs. Said McKenna: "We have to be very careful about overblown rhetoric. We don't get a lot of attention here, but we can get attention here for the wrong reasons. Yes. It is called foot-in-mouth disease. "We have to be careful that we're not sanctimonious. We have to recognize the United States has assumed a different role in the world than us and it's a role we're not prepared to play. Sanctimonious? You don't think you guys are sanctimonious. What planet were you born on? "So we shouldn't be so judgmental about a country that has chosen to play that role." But as far as Fox News is concerned, that seems to be a different story. Go get 'em Fox! |
| Posted by:BigEd |
| #9 Just out of curiosity, does the ambassador realize that it is against US law for his millions of Canadians living in the US to lobby Congress unless they are citizens. Congress reacts only to US voters (which hopefully the Canadians aren't) and dollars (which they are not allowed to accept from foreigners). With twits like this in the Foreign Service, no wonder no one pays any attention to Canada. |
| Posted by: RWV 2005-07-05 23:46 |
| #8 She's a kewtie, Ms. Brown. But I know what I like and I know what will make a Canadian leftist head explode: Laurie Dhue. ;o) |
| Posted by: badanov 2005-07-05 22:51 |
| #7 mmmmm Patti Ann |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-07-05 22:38 |
| #6 Reason #2483 to completely ignore Canada. |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-07-05 22:28 |
| #5 bad - You are bad, heh. That's a direct challenge to the Patti Ann Brown Fan Club hereabouts, lol! |
| Posted by: .com 2005-07-05 21:14 |
| #4 Canadian leftists' heads will explode the moment they lay eyes on Laura Dhue: Beautiful and conservative. |
| Posted by: badanov 2005-07-05 20:49 |
| #3 Thx for the insight Sock. There are guns, and Ahem, there are guns {SNICKER} |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-07-05 19:20 |
| #2 If you have ever watched the CBC you know this pinhead is full of crap, Propaganda at it's finest raving, leftist, moonbat pitch. He is afraid that Canadian folk in teh US will get the "truth" from FOX in between breaks in the latest missing, murdered or on trial non-stop coverage. Go easy one Canadians about their firearms, they own more per capita than we do, they know how to safely use them and hide them. Despite a massive amount of money spent to do so most are un-registered and un-accounted for and will remain that way. The RCMP has no more stomach for getting shot trying to grab guns than most rural US Sheriffs do (meaning they won't even try.) |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-07-05 18:52 |
| #1 Oh great pick a fight with O'Reilly! He will chew him up and spit him out. The Candian just let FNC on their Cable networks which means Austrailia, Asia, South America, and I think Africa got FNC before Canada did. Heard that once it was available it really took off. Must really hurt to have a News program that the Goverment can't control, why you never know what they might say! |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2005-07-05 18:51 |