See, now, why you gotta make stuff up to prove your point, Sean Hannity? Why you gotta go on your Fox News and manipulate a clip of President Obama speaking in Strasbourg so that you – with all your faux outrage and “narcissism of victimhood” – can say that “the liberal tradition of blame America first” is “still alive?” Can’t you make your point without cheating?
What you played of President Obama’s speech was:
“In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America’s shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.”
What you left out was:
In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.
But in Europe, there is an anti-Americanism that is at once casual but can also be insidious. Instead of recognizing the good that America so often does in the world, there have been times where Europeans choose to blame America for much of what’s bad.
On both sides of the Atlantic, these attitudes have become all too common. They are not wise. They do not represent the truth. They threaten to widen the divide across the Atlantic and leave us both more isolated. They fail to acknowledge the fundamental truth that America cannot confront the challenges of this century alone, but that Europe cannot confront them without America.
I guess you’re just following the will of your corporate overlords. Or is it a coincidence that The Fox Nation* website – and I bet most of your talk-radio brethren – did the same thing?
* Ha! It just dawned on me that the new Fox News website is mimicking a fake pundit on a comedy channel.
