Stop Apologizing for Being an American

People have to remember that just like our media the media in most foreign countries is well to the left. These people hated the U.S. long before Bush came on the scene, and they’ll hate us long after he’s left. The world leftist media has infected many countries with it’s leftist gospel of Marxist idiocies. They hate us because we’re not Marxist and hopefully never will be.

Yet to the elites we are the bad guy. How they miss the old USSR. And I suspect their elitism and dislike for the USA will persist even after one of their own is in the White House.

I've often wondered if this isn't the reason why the leftists hated George H. W. Bush with such passion, the fact that the Soviet Union collapsed during his watch. It got it's start really coming apart during Reagan's terms, but actually bit the dust when Bush I was in office. GHW Bush was certainly no mainstream conservative, yet the libs hated him like one. Maybe this is why.

OTOH, maybe they are just consumed with hate for anyone who doesn't think like them.

This thread reminded me of a similar, only slightly off topic rant by PJ O'Rourke's 1988 Holidays in Hell.

"We're the baddest assed sons of b!tches that ever jogged in Reeboks. We're three quarter grizzly bear and two thirds car wreck and descended from a stock market crash on our mother's side. You take your Germany, France, and Spain, roll them all together and it wouldn't give us room to park our cars. We're the big boys, Jack, the original, giant economy sized, new and improved butt kickers of all time. When we snort coke in Houston, people lose their hats in Cap d'Antibes. And we've got an American Express card limit higher than your piss-ant metric numbers go."

"You say our country has never been invaded? You're right little buddy. Because I'd like to see the needle dicked foreigners who'd have the guts to try. We drink napalm to get our hearts started in the morning. A rape and a mugging is our way of saying "Cheerio." Hell can't hold our sock hops. We walk taller, talk louder, spit further, f*ck longer and buy more things than you know the names of. I'd rather be a junkie in a NY City jail than king, queen and jack of all you Europeans. We eat little countries like yours for lunch and sh!t them out before lunch."

"Of course, the guy should have punched me. But this was Europe. He just smiled his shabby superior smile. (God, don't these people have dentists?)"

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