We are the world (Mark Steyn)

NRO, "The Corner" via Steyn Online ^ | 9/27/2007 | Mark Steyn

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Before Katie Couric's confession that "saying 'we' when referring to the United States" makes her uncomfortable fades from the news cycle, two observations:

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2) It does help explain one of Katie's sillier comments, a few years back when the space shuttle Columbia crashed. On the Today show, she saluted the fallen crew as follows: "They were an airborne United Nations - men, women, an African-American, an Indian woman, an Israeli…."

No, they weren't an "airborne UN". They were an airborne America. For a start, if there was such a thing as a UN rocket, the Israeli guy wouldn't get anywhere near it, except on a one-way ticket to establish the viability of Ahmadinejad's new designated homeland for the Jews on Planet Zongo.

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classic Steynism!

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"When the shuttle crashed, Abu Hamza, Britain's famous firebrand imam, claimed it was God's punishment "because it carried Americans, an Israeli and a Hindu, a trinity of evil against Islam". God bless the old Islamofascist nut but at least he'd grasped the particulars of the situation, instead of just peddling witless one-worldist delusions. Perkiness doesn't make them any more attractive."

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ping.

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The man could write a grocery list and it’d be worth reading.

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3) On the other hand, Miss Couric’s reluctance to say “we” may simply reflect the fact that, given her current ratings, the plural may be a tad presumptuous

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