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OMG, Fox news is nuts.
Topic Started: Mar 23 2009, 03:19 PM (812 Views)
La Gringa
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcJn5XlbSFk

WTF is this? I apologize that we have this station in our country..... who will they pick on next? Mother Theresa?

Geez... I wish I lived in Canada when I hear this crap. Why would they air this stuff?

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don't get me started - :mallet: :argh:

me, I don't watch news, I listen and read news. Keeps my blood pressure within normal limits :yes:
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It's an embarrassment that this station is allowed to do this? It makes me sick.

I hate Fox News. I do watch some shows on Fox, but the news is awful.
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Awwwww... come on... most of it was tongue in cheek... I was half expecting at least two of them to start making armpit farts.... Why is everybody so easily offended these days?
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I think it's funny. And meant to be funny. And certainly no more offensive than our president making fun of the Special Olympics :duh:

IMHO, Canada is a more worthy target of military jokes...they certainly have never been considered a military might. After all, lots of French blood there...
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It wasn't a joke at all...they were making fun, but that doesn't mean they didn't mean it. Does Canada profess to be a superpower? a military might? I don't think so...so why are we picking on them? Such arrogance.
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I guess I took it the wrong way, maybe it was just joking.. I guess though being an Army significant other... I just don't like the attitudes of them. The Canadian Army is tiny compared to ours, but it doesn't mean it doesn't exist for Petes Sake.

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BelladonnaLily
Mar 23 2009, 06:03 PM
I think it's funny. And meant to be funny. And certainly no more offensive than our president making fun of the Special Olympics :duh:

IMHO, Canada is a more worthy target of military jokes...they certainly have never been considered a military might. After all, lots of French blood there...
As someone who is very proud of her French heritage, and her family's long tradition of military service, I find this comment deeply offensive. Indeed, we do not have a military the size of the United States, or other nations, but we have a long, proud tradition of serving when needed, of answering the call when asked and sacrificing our young men and women, just as other nations have at times of war.

What makes the comments of the Fox news bumblefarts more galling than anything is that this was aired on a day when 4 more young Canadians lost their lives in a war that is not a war, doing their job. And this in a week where we had lost 2 other brave young souls. See, while we do not have the "might" of the US military, we still have a military who are serving to keep the world safe from tyranny and we too have young people dying on an almost daily basis. Our numbers of dead may never be as high as those in the US, but they are our dead soldiers who deserve to be honoured, not pilloried and certainly not made fun of.

No military, anywhere is a worthy target of military jokes.
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i have not watched the link, but I will say that I want to move to Canada for other reasons.... at least for 4 years... :shoot:
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As the wife of a Canadian Military reservist, who is planning on doing an active tour of duty in the next year, I was deeply insulted by the comments made by the folks at Fox. :pissed:

I wil admit that my emotions are heightened at this point, as 4 young men were returned home from the war in Afghanistan in caskets today. 3 of them were between 20-24 years old. The eldest, only 28.

Our sons and daughters and spouses are dying over there too. Just last week, my husband attended another military funeral, this time of a man his age, with 4 young children.

Canada is on a peacekeeping mission, in an effort to give the people of Afghanistan an opportunity to have a life of personal freedom.

Our numbers may not be as large as those found in the US... but please take into consideration our country's population is significantly smaller! Our boys train just as hard and intensely as yours. They often share the same training bases, and work together as part of a collabrative effort. We encourage ethnic diversity, and any Canadian citizen (whether a French, English, Russian, German etc, etc etc) is able to apply to enlist to serve their country, and potentially make the ultimate sacrifice.

For those who question our military might... please do a brief history check into the involvement of the Canadian military during both the first and second world wars. (specifically Dieppe, and D-Day)

I truly believe that Fox owes the families of those fallen soldiers a huge apology. Their comments are insulting and degrading.

Imagine the trouble that would ensue had those comments been made from Canada in regards to the US Military and their efforts? :rolleyes:

(I'm stepping off my soapbox now) Sorry, but y'all caught me on a bad day for this. :no:


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FOX the "do-as-I-say-and-not-as-I-do-network"

I've usually find their views to be at the very least small minded and at the worst hostile and hypocritical.
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Some of you guys are really taking this seriously? I mean, isn't it obvious that three out of the five people on the show were adolescent boys pretending to be grown ups... I don't even recognize the program... Is it a weekend show or something?

Let's all put our big girl panties on and not get offended so easily.

As for the French comment... My grandfather was French, and as far as I know there is no long and illustrious military history from that branch on my tree ;).
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So what everyone is saying is that we're only allowed to have a sense of humor when one is making fun of the US, its military and/or its leadership? Where were you all when Bush was president? :sigh:

Geez people, isn't that show aired at something like 4am? (The only time I've seen it live is scrolling channels when I can't sleep). Some people just scrounge for things to be offended over...and then CBS (NOT Fox) calls our president out for laughing about our economy (punch-drunk was it?...I mean come on, he IS still campaigning on the Late Show :mallet: ) and not a peep from the so-easily offended...

And what, nothing about my Special Olympics comment? No one wants to refute that? Maybe I should start a thread OMG, Obama is nuts? Of course not, he slipped up and said something stupid...he just gets a pass because he's a democrat god.
Edited by BelladonnaLily, Mar 24 2009, 04:48 AM.
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BelladonnaLily
Mar 24 2009, 04:44 AM

And what, nothing about my Special Olympics comment? No one wants to refute that? Maybe I should start a thread OMG, Obama is nuts? Of course not, he slipped up and said something stupid...he just gets a pass because he's a democrat god.


That was an incredibly insensitive and ignorant thing for Obama to say... I still can't believe he got off so easily... if it were a conservative the media would have jumped on him/her like a pack of wolves.

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Mar 23 2009, 07:54 PM
i have not watched the link, but I will say that I want to move to Canada for other reasons.... at least for 4 years... :shoot:
And you aren't going because...?
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