Aww Geeze, ..Here they come.....
Damn, What a time to have a "girly men" type of congress AND lack of Boarder Security !!!
Posted on 07/03/2005 10:23:12 AM PDT by wagglebee
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 one million Canadians living in the United States, a group he calls the "Canadian diaspora."
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."
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.
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.
"We know we're a bit of prey for the Fox News type of shows," he told the Star.
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.
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."
"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.
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:
* Canada is the largest source of imported crude oil in the U.S., bigger than Saudi Arabia or the yet untested reserves of Iraq.
* 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.
* None of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists entered the U.S. from Canada.
* Canada-U.S. trade supports more than five 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.
"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.
"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.
This idiot might want to ask his fellow Canadians living in the US why they came here, he will probably find out it't because they are fed up with Canadian socialism.
Blame Canada!
Odds are Canada won't even cover the spread.
What's a Canada? [snicker]
That's all O'Reilley's ego needs - to know it is now him vs. Canada.
So exactly which of these points did Fox get wrong? Actually none, right? I thought so.
There you go, Frank McKenna, fixed it for you, lets not spread disinformation, ok? Clarity is important.
Aww Geeze, ..Here they come.....
Damn, What a time to have a "girly men" type of congress AND lack of Boarder Security !!!
He should be addressing the Canadian MP's. Is it FOX News fault that Canadian MP's say that they "hate those American bastards" just one of the many insults thrown at America by Canadian MP's?
Sounds like a major whine and snivel from the Canadian ambassador. He needs to go back to doing whatever it is that ambassadors do. And in a war between Fox and Canada, I'll take Fox. They have a bigger and more efficient army.
I also understand that a couple of weeks ago two male Canadian soldiers were allowed to marry each other. In other news, the 1st Canadian Hairdresser Brigade will soon be activated, to be followed by the activation of the 1st Canadian Interior Decoration Battalion.
Bingo...O'R will invite the guy on..then chew him up and spit him out..
""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. "
Is this biased information, Mr. Ambassador? Remember to "keep it pithy and no bloviating."
USMC:
STOP GLOBAL WHINING!
Semper Fi
Plus Canada's government puts on a big act over Carolyn Parish. The thieving Liberal government leader (Paul Martin)
kicks her out of parlement saying "he won't tollerate her actions" then turns around and gives her the seat back (and buys off another from the opposition) because he was about to be defeated for running a corrupt government.
We know the Liberal lefties hate the USA, nothing Canada's Liberal lefties do is going to change that, Only the people of Canada can when they kick them out.
Watching the live Aid concert, Spreading disinformation seems to be a Canadian CBC thing, not fox news. Americans give more aid to Africa than any other country in the world,
Saying Americans don't is spreading dissinformation isn't it?
That's a peculiar way of asking the USA to give more aid, by bashing it first? What about Europe? They give less aid, and saying they can't be asked for more because they can't afford it, is nothing but a cop out. They CAN afford to give more aid, if they would just manage their economy better, and quit making back door deals with tyrants and dictators, arming them, causing much of Africa's problems in the first place.
Americans should ban that live aid concert, it's nothing but a bunch of loonatic lefty's thinking trowing money at Africa is going to make everything better. It won't, taking out tyrants and dictators and building respondsible gvernments will.
Well if Canadas upset then Fox must be doing something right.
* Canada is the largest source of imported crude oil in the U.S., bigger than Saudi Arabia or the yet untested reserves of Iraq.
* 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.
* None of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists entered the U.S. from Canada.
* Canada-U.S. trade supports more than five million American jobs.
Not to mention exporting this guy...
Don't forget Peter Jennings.
And the second one said, "Well, how about we each pick a letter and see what that spells?"
And the third guy says, "Great Idea! I'll start. C, hey?"
(If I need to finish from here you'll never understand it anyway.)
What a brilliant way to escalate the division! Way to go, Canada!
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