Medved: Why the world hates America

Townhall ^ | 08/23/06

[Al Gator]

"Nice, but not nearly as effective as Mark Levin's "GET OFF MY PHONE, YOU JERK!!!"

Mark did not invent that line.

Bob Grant did, back in the '70s. However, Mark is doing a good job keeping it alive! And I do so enjoy the way he uses it.

[ArGee]

The irrational nature of America Hatred comes into clearest focus with the realization that this destructive passion flourishes most spectacularly among those who have benefited most conspicuously from the existence of the U.S. You’ll find such festering resentment in Western Europe in general (France in particular), Islamic nations especially dependent on American aid, support and trade (Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, for example), among pampered, privileged stars in the entertainment industry, and on elite university campuses in the United States and around the world.

I think the answer is in this paragraph. People learn to loathe those upon whom they depend. They have a pride that says they should be able to be self-sufficient, but reality tells them otherwise. I think this was behind much of the feminist movement and, of course, Adam's rebellion in the Garden of Eden.

Shalom.

[Puppage]

Why the world hates America

Yeah, they hate us SO MUCH that they beg, borrow & steal to get here in the MILLIONS!

[ClaireSolt]

I have read several books on French anti-Americanism. It all boils down to the conclusion that it's their problem, not ours. They wish their position in the world was different. Nothing we can do about that.

[Starboard]

GREAT, GREAT article. Thanks for posting.

On the envy issue, this reminds me of people hating the New York Yankees because of their long and storied history of baseball dominance. If you're the top dog, people are going to throw mud at you because its more fun to criticize others than it is to take stock of yourself.

[sully777]

We should swap hate mail sometime.

Where were you a couple of weeks ago when every thread I posted seemed to attract a different jackass posting "this article is stupid."

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And Sonny, don't forget about all those who do you think you are? Sheesh, no respect...

I figure the problem you have is that you don't cater at your meet-n-greets. You just throw down some stale bread, day-old italian gravy, and hard linguini. And Gallo...come on Sonny? Gotta make a lasting impression.


"Just make sure you got the gun planted right. I don't want Michael coming out of the crapper with his !*ck in his hands."

[kabar]

Excellent essay. I think the "hatred" has more to do with power than anything else, especially Western Europe. America has eclipsed their power and influence as these societies slowly fade into oblivion. Declining birthrates, aging societies, and overgenerous social welfare systems are dictating bleak futures compounded by large scale immigration from other cultures. Europe is the past and America is the present and future.

[rightinthemiddle]

Just after 9/11, I was sitting in the bank drive-through line. In front of me was a gray-haired lady in a Buick. She had a red, white and blue bumper sticker that said:

"These Colors Don't Run...the World."

I thought, "How pathetic have we become when some well-off lady in her 60's doesn't like her own country?"

It's kinda scary.

[starbase]

Laugh if you will, but the crap put out by Hollywood, slasher movies, all gay all the time movies, dysfunctional families, mass murder deification and why should we expect the rest of the world would think we have any kind of a normal life?

There's a lot of truth to this. The last "American Pie" movie had two young males in a gay club kiss each other on the mouth. In the pub I was watching the movie in there were gasps of shock at that. In one of Charlie Sheen's "Top Gun" spoofs a big bomb falls and Sadam Hussein, sitting by a pool, catches it in his lap. It seemed that everyone felt uncomfortable at the sight, like we had planned long before to take him out, so long that it was even in our movies.

There are many other examples, but one thing that's very important to point out, is that as I go from pub to pub here in Thailand, where people watch movies most every night, I see that they just keep watching our movies! No one is hand cuffing them to the TV, they put the movies on by choice, then want to feel "attacked" by what they chose to sit down and look at. That is a strange contradiction that deserves noting.

[Froufrou]

That's like me posting from Weekly World News and someone telling me it's not for real. After I put "humor" in the keywords.

[litehaus]

"Yeah, they hate us SO MUCH that they beg, borrow & steal to get here in the MILLIONS!"

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Dang, almost two dozen posts B4 someone said this?

[KC_Conspirator]

If everybody hates America so much, why is everyone trying to break in? If everyone hates the west so much, why are people from 3rd world countries immigrating to western countries in record numbers?

[steve-b]

Medved made two valid points, and then flushed it down the commode with his "toxic popular culture" hobby-horse nonsense.

Anti-American "conservatives" who whinge "butbutbut you have to understand that they hate us because of our cultrual imperialist decadence" are as contemptible as Anti-American leftists who emit the same irritating nasal whine with the trivially different variation "butbutbut you have to understand that they hate us because of our economic imperialist exploitation".

[MrEdd]

Why the world hates America

[presidio9]

Bob Grant did, back in the '70s. However, Mark is doing a good job keeping it alive! And I do so enjoy the way he uses it.

Grant may have invented the line, but Levin's sotto vocce took it to new levels.

[kabar]

"When the society often described as “the world’s most hated nation” also turns out to be the country most fervently desired as a destination for immigrants from everywhere, then it’s blindingly obvious that envy plays the leading role in generating hostility to the United States. "

Dang, almost two dozen posts B4 someone said this?

Why restate what was already in the article?

[Al Gator]

"Grant may have invented the line, but Levin's sotto vocce took it to new levels"

I agree!

[april15Bendovr]

We don't fit the new world order

[SMARTY]

"Remember, the famous French Revolution proved so feckless in this regard that the frog-eaters anointed an all-powerful Emperor (Napoleon) less than twenty years after they guillotined their king."

I have read a great many personal accounts of the Napoleonic era. Campaign diaries, journals, histories, bio's...and some of his officers (Marshall Ney for one among others) did not approve the direction of Napoleon's leadership. In a coach on the way to Napoleon's coronation, and then again in Notre Dame, Marshall Ney and others grumbled audibly and at one point said..." Two million people died to put an end to this s^%$..." So much for their Liberty Equality and Fraternity...Napoleon was a Fascist. Their 'revolution' got itself sold out almost right away... American democracy is the McCoy!!! I hope that was not too off topic

[presidio9]

That's like me posting from Weekly World News and someone telling me it's not for real. After I put "humor" in the keywords.

I've got that beat. A while back some wingnut global warming freak actually wrote a letter published in the Montpelier Times Argus where he complained about me specifically.