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Cowboys and Europeans
Opinion Journal ^
| 05/24/2002
| The editors
Posted on 05/23/2002 9:14:31 PM PDT by Pokey78
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:04:32 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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An anti-Bush slur shows that America is on the right track.
You know America is on the right path when European cartoonists start drawing our president in a 10-gallon hat.
That's what's been happening to George W. Bush this week on his visit to the Continent. The German paper Die Zeit featured a cartoon of a cigar-chomping President Bush coming through the Brandenburg Gate as though he were walking into a saloon. In Moscow, street vendors are hawking wooden dolls with the president's face under a Stetson. In Berlin, the anti-Bush posters depict the president as a smiling cowboy with eyes painted a deadly red.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
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posted on
05/23/2002 9:14:31 PM PDT
by
Pokey78
To: summer; Howlin; Miss Marple; mombonn; Sabertooth; MeeknMing; JohnHuang2
Ping!
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posted on
05/23/2002 9:15:27 PM PDT
by
Pokey78
To: Pokey78
Who cares what Europeans think? Bunch of idiots.
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity; Pokey78
I like Pokey's term: Eurosnots.
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posted on
05/23/2002 9:17:54 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Howlin
That's a Steyn original.
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posted on
05/23/2002 9:18:44 PM PDT
by
Pokey78
To: Pokey78
It's sad that the some of the Eurostupids are appearing like Nazi's.... more and more....and we are going to have to probably save the majority of Europe's A**es....again. Don't they know that they are closer, physically, the problem countries than we are.....??? Oh, I forgot, they're stupid. Sheesh.
To: Pokey78
"Alas, the Europeans haven't grasped that in America only college professors and actors consider "cowboy" an insult."I'd rather be called a cowboy than a European.
To: Pokey78
The German paper Die Zeit featured a cartoon of a cigar-chomping President Bush coming through the Brandenburg Gate as though he were walking into a saloon. Well, the joke's on them- he doesn't drink or smoke... but he does look good in a cowboy hat!
To: Pokey78
Garry Wills, author of a critical Wayne biography, has said that the secret of John Wayne's endurance is that his films tap into "the primary American myths--the myth of Manifest Destiny, the myth of the frontier, the myth of American exceptionalism." As the late Joseph Campbell taught, myth is very powerful and very important. These corrosive leftists would replace our positive myths with negative ones. Revisionist history is no less mythical than traditional history and is often less accurate.
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posted on
05/23/2002 9:28:57 PM PDT
by
rimmont
To: Pokey78
"I'm an old cowhand,
From the Rio Grande ..."
"My heroes have always been cowboys."
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posted on
05/23/2002 9:34:36 PM PDT
by
mrustow
To: Pokey78; RJayneJ
Any European cartoonist worth spitting at would be poking fun at all of the anti-nuclear Left-wing activists protesting Bush as he's on his way to make the largest cut in global nuclear arsenals in world history...
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posted on
05/23/2002 9:44:32 PM PDT
by
Southack
To: Pokey78
To: Howlin
Works for me, that's exactly what they are.
To: lowbridge
I'll add 1 more:
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posted on
05/23/2002 10:20:06 PM PDT
by
Pokey78
To: lowbridge
Of course Hoppy wears a black hat. hehe
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05/23/2002 10:21:01 PM PDT
by
Pokey78
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To: lowbridge;pokey78
Let's not forget
Ranger Doug!
Idol of American youth
To: Pokey78
Many thanks for the pings, Pokey.
To: Pokey78; Squantos; GeronL; Billie; sinkspur; Slyfox; San Jacinto; SpookBrat; COB1; DainBramage...
Cowboys and Europeans
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Alas, the Europeans haven't grasped that in America only college professors and actors consider "cowboy" an insult. Thus Susan Sarandon achieved honorary European status for remarks earlier this month, when she summed up terrorism and the U.S. response as follows: "When you have a guy who thinks the best act is to blow himself up, along with others, you have to ask, 'What leads to that?' And is the response more violence? A cowboy shoot-'em-up?"
Note to Ms. Sarandon: Rent "High Noon" and get back to us after you see how Grace Kelly resolves that particular issue......
The last American president our European cousins liked to call a cowboy was Ronald Reagan--when he deployed the Euromissiles, when he bombed Libya, when he called the Soviet Union an "Evil Empire." So it shouldn't bother a man from Texas to find the Euro-set calling him a cowboy: He's wearing the white hat.
I'm rather fond of this one myself..........
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To: Lunatic Fringe
Well, the joke's on them- he doesn't drink or smoke... but he does look good in a cowboy hat!
I agree!
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