Your comments are sooo true; but why do most "journalists" and other media types hate the U.S.? I cannot get my mind around their thought processes. Is it that they hate the idea that regular folks have too much power under a system of individual liberty? Are they after more power for themselves? Or is the groupthink so strong that they have never learned to think for themselves?
I also think they have a distorted sense of morality, partly because they're lead by groupthink, partly because they are intellectually lazy, and partly because they're not as intelligent as one would wish them to be.
Part of this groupthink is "internationalism", which means that one's concerns include all of the people of the world, not just Americans. We all share this to one extent or another, and we should. However, American "Liberals" translate this into anti-Americanism.
They probably believe that they are liberal in their thinking and that their imagination and open-mindedness bring all the people of the world into the scope of their concern, and there is a degree of liberalism in this.
However, the "Liberalism" that plagues the U.S. today has little or nothing to do with liberalism. It is itself enslaved to groupthink, to control, to iconiclasm, and to tyrrany. It is a form of decadence.
The anti-Americanism of the American "newsmedia" is an expression of this decadence.
"Internationalists" reject the idea that the U.S. is a benevolent nation or that Western Civilization is uniquely superior to other cultures that have developed in the world.
They also seek accomodation and common ground with leaders outside the U.S., and this brings them into anti-American conspiracy with some of the most brutal and tyrranical people and regimes the world has ever known.
These people are horribly misguided. They also tend to be self-congratulatory and hubritic.
Many of them do hate the U.S.
Many are in a habit of criticizing and denigrating the U.S. and American values and lack the wit or the energy to stop doing it.
And many lack the courage to come into conflict with the "internationalist", anti-American point of view of the "media" establishment.
I had a mildly interesting discussion with a woman lawyer not long ago.
She had been reading some of Winston Churchill's writings, and she claimed that history was repeating itself, that President Bush was the contemporary incarnation of Adolf Hitler, and that somebody-or-other was Winston Churchill out there shouting warnings.
I pointed out to her that the parallels are there, all right, but that President Bush is a contemporary Winston Churchill, standing up to the 21st century recrudescence of Naziism, viz. Islamofascism.
Well! She fizzled and blustered, got hysterical, and had a nervous breakdown, and then the truth came out.
She had just been to an "internationalist" convention, where she met people from Third World countries, who were strongly anti-American and critical of Americans. She was embarrassed to be an American and to receive their criticism.
It did no good to explain that such people were concerned about their own interests, not hers, not mine, and not those of the American people, and had an agenda of their own--or to explain the realities of the contemporary international situation, the courage of President Bush, or the similarities between him and Winston Churchill or between the Islamofascists and the Nazis of the Third Reich. It didn't sink in.
When I left her, she was all in a tizzy...didn't know where to go...what to think...what do do... Oh! It was just awful!
What's really awful is having to deal with people who are not very smart.