Canada AmBushed by loose Conan

The Gazette ^ | February 14, 2004 | JOSH FREED

[Columbine]

So now President Bush is responsible for Conan too.

Never mind that the fools paid to bring Conan to Canada! It's all the president's fault.

This so called writer included his email address with the article. I presume that means he wants comments!

[CFC__VRWC]

Back when the Left was in full swoon for Howard Dean, they just loved Triumph the Insult Dog making a complete ass out of John Kerry on Leno. All of a sudden he just isn't so cool any more. Go figure.

[freedumb2003]

The "funniest" thing about O'Brien's show is the federal and Ontario governments poured $1 million of our tax dollars into the visit.

Now, THAT'S FUNNY! LOLOL!

But I wonder how he'd feel if we let Canada's Insulting Beaver Puppet loose on U.S. TV to yuk it up about Sept. 11.

Apples and oranges and really, really bad, stupid and hurtful analogy. It is one thing to make witty observations on people's behavior -- that is 90% of humor through the ages. It is another thing to suggest the unprovoked killing of 3,000 innocent people -- ANYWHERE -- could be the target of humor. To my knowledge, there is no analagous event in Canadian history. Also, many Canadians were killed on 9/11. These Canuks really take themselves seriously if this is the analogy they with to propose.

[counterpunch]

You gotta love Canada. While so many nations in the world practice deception, Canadians don't even try to hide their stupidity.

[Catspaw]

I saw clips of thise piece and it was hilarious. Then again, I'm not Canadian and therefore humor-free.

[VadeRetro]

All I ever see are the same two jokes quoted from that show. Are they all copying from one another? Where is the funny stuff?

[counterpunch]

Well, maybe eating yellow snow really is a deep and serious wound for Canadians.
Remember the Yellow Snow Epidemic of '97?
Thousands were lost.

[Bogey78O]

'But I wonder how he'd feel if we let Canada's Insulting Beaver Puppet loose on U.S. TV to yuk it up about Sept. 11'

Jeez, Canadians must lack a sense of perspective. That's like me joking abut someone's bad haircut and they respond with a joke about my mother being a whore.

[Ciexyz]

My sympathies to the Canadians who had to shell out one million for Conan's visit. Let advertizing cover all his costs.

[SaveTheChief]

For the last two years we Canadians have become more and more distant from a U.S. run by George W. Bush. We've proposed legalizing pot laws and gay marriage. We've refused to fight in Iraq. We've become so anti-Bush a poll in last week's Maclean's magazine found only 15 per cent of Canadians would vote for him as a leader.

Hear that Conservatives? They are doing polls in other countries to discuss business that isn't even theirs. If it hasn't been declared already, this is going to be a war between us and the world. The enemy already has a huge foothold in this country. It is called the Democrat Party.

[Criminal Number 18F]

Let me get this straight.

1. Canadian taxpayers shelled out C$1mil, which is probably almost half a million, to import an American talk show host, who is (to be charitable) not the most popular in America.
2. A key ingredient in his unpopularity is his persona. Maybe he's charming in person, I don't know, but on TV he comes across as: a jerk.
3. Imported to Canada at Canadian behest, paid in money earned by regular Canadians, the jerk -- Lo! and behold -- acted like: a jerk.
4. His "insult dog" alter ego acted like an even bigger jerk. This is predictable even to me, who like most sensible people on either side of fifty-four forty hasn't seen a cumulative five minutes of this show.
5. So, now Canadians are upset, and of course, like everything Canada screws up, from their quintessentially French defence policy ("Ten-SHUN. Dress right, DRESS! Hands UP!") to their great health care system ("Sorry, you're too old for a heart transplant. Best bet is to try to establish US residency..."), it's all the fault of Uncle Sam.

Cry me a river.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[martin_fierro]

Apples and oranges and really, really bad, stupid and hurtful analogy.

Exactly. That'd be like joking about an intentionally-set Halifax Explosion.

[Alas Babylon!]

Well, actually, according to the writer, it's all Bush's fault.

[SevenDaysInMay]

54/40 or fight!

[Columbine]

All I ever see are the same two jokes quoted from that show. Are they all copying from one another? Where is the funny stuff?

The funny stuff is that these nutty people used tax dollars to pay for being insulted.

That cracks me up!

[PoorMuttly]

Not CIA...grass-roots !

ANNEX CANADIA !

[freedumb2003]

Wow! Thanks for the link and the history. Reading about that tragedy (and that is the correct word in this context) my first reaction was one of deep sorrow. The compounding of the delay between collision and explosion that brought all those eyes to be in range was particularly heart-wrenching.

And like you point out, that was an ACCIDENT!

The idea that someone would even consider using a tragedy like that (which is what this author is doing) to make ploitical and journalistic hay is sick.

[per loin]

The idea that someone would even consider using a tragedy like that (which is what this author is doing) to make ploitical and journalistic hay is sick.

On the other hand, having the French embedded in Canada may be a comparable tragedy up there.

[freedumb2003]

On the other hand, having the French embedded in Canada may be a comparable tragedy up there.

LOL! I shudder to even think of it. Another beautiful irony is that the French DESPISE the French-Canuks (or at least so I have been told by my Canadian friends).