Oh, *come* on...
Apr. 1st, 2003 11:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
misscamRemember me joking France should reclaim the Statue of Liberty and place it in the Atlantic with a certain obscene gesture?
Hoo boy (thanks Saz)
I feel an urge to slap the Americans who leads this anti-France trend silly. People doing it is one thing, but responsible leaders supporting it (I speak of the House of Representatives)? Urge to feel anti-American rising... Freedom Fries and now this. France has plenty of bad behavior to go attack, so go do that rather than this immature "oh, oh, let's rename anything that has French in the title, hihi". Why not talk about what France did to a certain African country after a free election? Now there's something that you could use to show France being ruthless. This is just silly.
Speaking of anti-America, I took a peek at a recent poll concerning what foreign TV channels Norwegians trusted the most. BBC was by far the one, over half the people asked trust them the most. But the second choice was most interesting. AlJazeera. It had over 20% of the votes, compared to CNN's measly 8. Very interesting. More Norwegians trust an Arabic television channel than an American one (despite being The Land of the Free - bah). Ho hum.
I think after all this is over, if the US does not win the propaganda war (and let's not kid ourselves, it is propaganda on all sides here), they may find that they have a problem on their hands. I dread to think of what the mood in the Arabic countries is like. If even I, European and a Westerner, feel an urge to hate America, what must they feel?
On the topic of being immature and silly... I think I shall go petition Millikov about a Save the World, Kill a Git website, where gits all over the world will be archived in a Hall of Gittiness. It would be fun. Hee.
Hoo boy (thanks Saz)
I feel an urge to slap the Americans who leads this anti-France trend silly. People doing it is one thing, but responsible leaders supporting it (I speak of the House of Representatives)? Urge to feel anti-American rising... Freedom Fries and now this. France has plenty of bad behavior to go attack, so go do that rather than this immature "oh, oh, let's rename anything that has French in the title, hihi". Why not talk about what France did to a certain African country after a free election? Now there's something that you could use to show France being ruthless. This is just silly.
Speaking of anti-America, I took a peek at a recent poll concerning what foreign TV channels Norwegians trusted the most. BBC was by far the one, over half the people asked trust them the most. But the second choice was most interesting. AlJazeera. It had over 20% of the votes, compared to CNN's measly 8. Very interesting. More Norwegians trust an Arabic television channel than an American one (despite being The Land of the Free - bah). Ho hum.
I think after all this is over, if the US does not win the propaganda war (and let's not kid ourselves, it is propaganda on all sides here), they may find that they have a problem on their hands. I dread to think of what the mood in the Arabic countries is like. If even I, European and a Westerner, feel an urge to hate America, what must they feel?
On the topic of being immature and silly... I think I shall go petition Millikov about a Save the World, Kill a Git website, where gits all over the world will be archived in a Hall of Gittiness. It would be fun. Hee.
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Date: 2003-04-02 07:51 pm (UTC)~ Feather (of two sentence fame way back in the beginning of OFUM)
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