No Country for Old Morons
Filed under: US Elections
Last night at the Academy Award ceremonies in Hollywood, America gave all four of its main acting awards to Europeans (a Spaniard, a Frenchwoman and two Britons -- that's the four joyous winners, pictured above). Name the last time Europe did America a favor like that.
Yet, Americans are supposedly hostile to European cultural virtues?
Oh yeah and, by the way, a billion people tuned in to watch the telecast. Name one other country in the history of the television that can has got the world as interested in what it's doing on the cultural front.
Meanwhile, it looks very much as though a black man -- and not just any black man, mind you, but one whose middle name is the same as our former arch enemy in Iraq and whose last name rhymes with the first name of our current arch enemy in Afghanistan -- will receive a nomination for president of the United States.
Yet, America is supposedly a racist nation. (Note: Sinking to yet another epic new low, the New York Times reported "hushed worry" that Barack Obama will be assassinated. There are no such threats, and to my knowledge no African-American candidate for any office in American history has been assassinated to keep him out of office. Yet the Times reported this story on the front page of its website, opposite a story about how conservatives having "lingering doubts" about John McCain. Shameful. Disgraceful. It's actually sordid. Eww. Yuck.)
We're supposedly in economic decline, yet we lead all major nations of the world in per capita GDP.
We're supposedly poorly educated, yet last year we won more Nobel Prizes than all other nations of the world put together.
Isn't it just about time the America bashers got over themselves?
PS: Speaking of Oscar, Russia was up for two awards last night, foreign- language film and animated short subject. It lost both, and as if to put the boot in Academy voters gave the animated award to a British film on a Russian subject, Peter and the Wolf, and the foreign-language award to an Austrian film about Hitler. Ouch.
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