Posted on 11/07/2008 8:50:03 PM PST by RobinMasters
At the top of Friday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Russ Mitchell reported on location from Athens, Greece as part of the show’s ‘Destination Unknown’ series and managed to squeeze in this observation: "...coming here, also, meeting people on the street, Europeans, they're absolutely giddy about the election of Barack Obama. They're actually coming up to us and congratulating us, which is interesting. So Europe is reacting in that way."
Later in the 8:30AM half hour, Mitchell returned to that observation: "As I said earlier in the broadcast, you get the sense being over here in Europe that the attitudes of some Europeans towards Americans may be changing with this week's election of President-Elect Barack Obama." Mitchell then turned to correspondent Richard Roth, who reported: "America's got a new President-Elect and a lot of the buzz on this side of the ocean is that's cool."
Roth, reporting from London, visited a local pub to get British reaction to Obama’s election: "Here in the country that was briefly called 'Cool Britannia' not so long ago, we're hearing some new compliments for the former colony." One patron remarked: "It makes America a better place." Roth asked one woman: "You like our movies?...You like our music?...So now you like our politics?" She replied: "I think they're a lot healthier now. Everybody's talking about it. So America is the thing of the moment at the moment and definitely -- definitely cool."
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Why do they never interview and quote conservative Europeans? (and yes, they exist)
Now that he is leader of the country, he’ll stop being so great in their eyes.
gosh, isn’t n-i-c-e to be loved by the world?
when’s the next 9.11?
“Cool”? How juvenile.
“Screwed” is more like it...
soon.
Misery loves company.
Oh the world really is like junior high....we’re cool again.....look at Iceland’s pants...what a dork....
...and so is Che Guerva to these idiots.
The reporters are probably just hoping it improves their chances to get laid.
Groovy, far out, fantastic! Dopes.
CBS should change its acronym to simply BS.
I’m NOT cool. And I hope a lot of other Americans ARE NOT COOL. Thanks to the mainstream Media, too many Americans were forced to buy a “pig in a poke” with no real scrutiny of his character, connetions or values.
I want to take the White House and COngress back from him and his henchmen - BADLY.
oh my goodness! When I first read the headline I thought it had to do with global warming.
I was thinking that Obamassiah works pretty quickly with his climate change healing!
Democrats is more confortable with Europe
Republicans fair better with Asia. Alot of Capitalist countries in Asia now
Maya Anjelou is saying that she can now be proud when she travels to Europe because we have a (1/2) black president. Well when did England, Germany, Holland, France, Austria, Spain, etc ever have a BLACK or 1/2 black president and what is she talking about? They have riots all the time in EU and it is angry young black men doing it.
“gosh, isn’t n-i-c-e to be loved by the world?
when’s the next 9.11?”
WEll - at least the waiting period between now and the first attack will be more pleasant.
We’ll get to look at smiling faces before we die.
But don’t worry.
After the attacks, the UN will have our backs.
Hmmm...
Can I get back to you on that one?
Well THAT’S a relief, because - you know - I’ve been really upset that Maya wasn’t comfortable hangin’ with her Euro/lefty friends all these years.
It's absolutely hillarious.
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