Fox News anchor John Gibson: "No one would care if Paris were blown up".

[Flagg]

All day long people have been saying to me, "Wasn't it great they didn't pick Paris?" And I've been saying, "No, no, no."

Paris was exactly the right place to pick and the Olympic committee screwed up.

Why? Simple. It would have been a three-week period where we wouldn't have had to worry about terrorism.

First, the French think they are so good at dealing with the Arab world that they would have gone out and paid every terrorist off. And things would have been calm.

Or another way to look at it is the French are already up to their eyeballs in terrorists. The French hide them in miserable slums, out of sight of the rich people in Paris.

So it would have been a treat, actually, to watch the French dealing with the problem of their own homegrown Islamist terrorists living in France already.

What would the French have done about rounding up their own citizens?

Would they have afforded their own terrorists the rights they insist we give the detainees at Gitmo? Not a chance. They'd throw them in the clink, or ship them off to North Africa pronto.

Would they have blocked terrorists at the border with unreasonable search and seizure — precisely what they say we should not do? Of course they would. Anybody looking faintly Arab would have had the gendarmerie on them in a flash.

It would have been a delight to have Parisians worried about security instead of New Yorkers. It would have been exquisite to watch.

But, alas, they picked London. I like the Brits. I like London. I hate to see them going through all this garbage when it would have been just fine in Paris.

C'est la vie. Goes to show the Olympic committee doesn't recognize the perfect opportunity when it presents itself.

That's My Word.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,161750,00.html




I'm French and I know there are some anti French feelings in the US but that guy is sick.
We don't deserve this kind of hatred.

[Tace]

1. Agreed -- SICK!

He gets paid to publish shit like this? Way gone...

[jazzjunkysue]

2. I just emailed fox and asked for Gibson to be fired.

I know it won't help, but, it made me feel better. I love paris. It's my second home.

[ObaMania]

4. Email Gibson himself

[e-mail]

I used to email him alot and he usually responded.

[American in Asia]

7. I emailed him and Fox

(they promo for overseas viewers address).

Trying to sound as if I'd actually watch this crappy station, but unable to hide my disgust with them, I'm afraid!

[jazzjunkysue]

12. Yeah, but then I'd have to melt my computer in acid and bury it....

B-)

[Robbien]

3. It speaks so poorly of our country that this wingnut is allowed to

spew such hatred on a global megaphone such as Faux News. This hatred is what keeps the wingnuts motivated behind BushCo.

So sorry Flagg.

[American in Asia]

5. nah, the network is sick...

this guy's an asshole.

[wakeme2008]

6. Right without a sick network

behind him, he would not have a job.

[LynnTheDem]

8. US image in tatters: China is more popular than US

Even the UK has a more favorable view of CHINA than they do of the USA.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8324290/

The OP article is a good example of WHY.

[wake.up.america]

9. Fox News vs. France? I'll take France anyday of the week?

Fox News has absolutely no class.

The average Frenchman has more class than the BA put together.

[GOPFighter]

10. You'd be shocked at how many people in America....

...share this hatred of France. It's all part of a mindless "patriotism" by people (mostly rural) whose lives are so miserable, their only - and I mean ONLY - source of pride is America's superpower status and a President willing to invade countries and give the rest of the world the finger. Some of these people would like to see us invade more countries, any country that doesn't do exactly what America wants.

And of course they believe God has chosen America to lead the world, so anything we do, we do in God's name and with his blessing.

Pretty sick, I agree. Our Republican politicians have turned us into a nation of haters.

[nine23]

11. Another example...

...(getting too numerous to count)...why the world, even in the West - normal, educated, informed citizens - DESPISE AMERICANS.

We all know this shit does not represent America, (maybe it does?), but the reality is this is what gets beamed out to the world on America's behalf.

Myself, I'm sick of this shit and I'm seriously offended this has (just recently) become part of my cable package/bundle.

CANADIAN DU'ers: This could be construed as hate mongering. Send your compliants pronto to:

Canadian Broadcast Standards Council: [e-mail]
Cable Television Standards Council; [e-mail]
CRTC forms: http://www.crtc.gc.ca/RapidsCCM/Register.asp?lang=E

Let's get this Nazi shit off the air. I know - "Nazi" is getting overused these days - but it's perfectly, EMBARASSINGLY APT in this case.