I told you a couple of days ago about the NY Times’s Alessandra Stanley attacking NBC for their pro-American coverage of the Olympics.
Now, the Washington Post is getting in on the America-bashing action. Radical leftist Susan Jacoby took to her WaPo blog, “The Spirited Atheist” to bash American patriotism as “anti-intellectual” and a “social disease”.
If you would like a graphic (literal and figurative) demonstration of our nation’s greatest failing, sit in front of your television set and watch NBC cover an international sports event, the Winter Olympics, as if only Americans were participating.
…The conviction that the United States is morally and culturally better than other
countries–including other developed democracies–is a real social disease that hurts us more than it does anyone else. It is also a profoundly anti-intellectual.
She goes on to cite achievement test scores of other nation’s children as a major reason our pride in America is unwarranted, or at least overblown. Our failure to adopt a European style socialized health care system is another reason we suck, and Canada and Europe rule.
Jacoby touts Canada’s glorious free health system even as a Canadian Premiere Danny Williams is taking heat for coming to the US for his heart surgery.
Williams defended his decision to seek treatment in the US, saying, "This was my heart, my choice and my health.”
Anyway, Jacoby goes on to complain that NBC could have used the Olympics being in Vancouver to highlight Canada’s health system and shill for ObamaCare — instead of clucking about “Team USA’s” medal count.
She also bashes religion and America’s embrace of it — Christianity in particular.
Susan Jacoby’s message is not new and is the same basic mantra we’ve heard from the left for years. Americans are a bunch of God loving, gun loving, patriotic hicks, who are too stupid to realize how much better Europeans have it.
My question for Susan Jacoby is simple. If Europe is so damn great and their health system is so superior, why the hell do you live here?
-Chris Jones
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