HEY EUROPE? Listen up, please.........

I've been wanting to tell you something for a while:

France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Belgium, England, Hungary, Finland, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, …..etc., I’m getting a bit tired of the insults and name calling and the incredibly patronizing suggestion that some of you should pick our president for us.

We have Liberals* over here bemoaning the fact that you don’t “like us”. Sorry, but not all of us do feel that way. We like to be liked, but not as much as we did.
Those days are over, especially after your treatment of us since this war we’re waging for ourselves…and you…in Iraq, to keep the world a safer place. Sorry you don’t “like us” for that.

For those of you who are willing to hear the truth, please pay close attention to why I think so many of you have a low opinion of this country. You don’t “like us” because of who’s telling you about us:

The biggest English language newspaper you read there is the International Herald Tribune. Do you know it is now wholly owned by the New York Times? Do you know that the New York Times is a very liberal (far more left than your definition for liberal) newspaper in America? Or do you believe it when you hear it’s the newspaper “of record” here? It is not. It is a large newspaper with some well known writers, famous because of the city it’s in. That’s it.

The New York Times might not say it’s against our country, but the evidence is pretty clear; newspapers which champion their country don’t call administrations names, don’t reveal top secret information, don’t celebrate our enemies, and don’t undermine wars we’re still fighting. The New York Times does. The New York Times, to some of us, hates America.

You read the product of that hate. And you think that must be what all Americans think. You couldn’t be farther from the truth. Most of us don’t want an “all Conservative” paper; we just want one which tells the truth, at least on the first six pages. We like opinion sections to be edgy but we want the truth on the front pages. You have that there, congratulations, but we do not. Don’t confuse the two situations. What you see on our front pages is mostly not an unbiased truth.

Did you know that your big name journalists are paid the big bucks to come to America to give you the news here but, instead, in many cases, translate, word for word, the articles in the New York Times and other liberal newspapers? Yes, we see it every day in your more famous foreign papers on the internet; my husband and I. My husband laughs as he sees that the big German papers are carrying more and more articles translated by Germans from American authors. Do not think these are opinions of Germans coming here and reporting what they see. No, these are mostly disgruntled liberal American opinions you are getting. You’d be ill advised to base your information on these. No wonder you don’t like us. The liberal papers themselves don’t like us.

CNN International is about the only American television news you will get. Most Americans don’t know that what you see in Europe is different and even more liberally biased than our CNN here. Yes, what you see every day and night is American news through the filter of liberals. And you base your attitudes about us on that. Why would you “like us”?! They don’t like us, either.

Our celebrities might excite you and you might think all Americans think like they do when they come to your countries and insult us and our government. You’re wrong. Some of us have stopped going to movies in which those who hate America star. We still like their acting; we just can’t see spending money on their films, supporting them so they can fly back to Europe first class and do another round of America bashing.

You might not “like us”, but at least consider what I’m saying, consider the source of your dislike. While you’re busy hating America, remember which way the immigration is going, too…I haven’t any friends migrating to Sweden lately, nobody’s fighting to get into Hungary or England, either. Especially England.

As England slips into an Islamic abyss of minarets, shish kebab and calls for Sharia Law, keep laughing at America as she tries to prevent that from happening to us…and YOU. Does that make sense?

Listen to the Conservative media, read the internet. I don’t ask you to believe everything Conservatives are saying, I only ask you to consider two sides to every question. We don’t think monolithically here any more than you do in your countries, believe it or not.

I’ll say goodbye now, auf Wiedersehen, au revoir, ciao, etc. Stop believing all the bad you hear about America and we promise we won’t believe all the wild stuff we hear about you! By the way, there is plenty of good coming from Iraq…have YOU heard it??

*I use the term “liberal” for Europeans in the way Americans use the term. Please, Europe, substitute the term for “Left” as I know the “liberal” there is more centrist than we define it here.

ADDENDUM: I was just sent the following email...(Thanks, Pat).. Any more questions, Europe?

Media Ignore Saddam's WMD Intent

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 9:33 AMBy: Ronald Kessler

When FBI agent George Piro recently described debriefing Saddam Hussein for seven months after his capture, he disclosed that the Iraqi dictator admitted his intention to re-start his weapons of mass destruction program within a year.
That plan included developing nuclear weapons capability, according to Saddam.
The revelation should have hit Page One of every newspaper.
It would have further justified President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq, a key issue in the coming presidential election. But many in the mainstream media could not bear to hear that Bush may have done something right.
When Piro’s interview came out in my book, "The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack," NBC Nightly News, Fox News, and Newsmax ran the news of Saddam’s admission, but few newspapers published a story. CNN ran a story on the debriefing of Saddam but made no mention of Saddam’s plans to resume his weapons of mass destruction program, including developing nuclear capability. Instead, CNN said that what Saddam told Piro “throws more cold water on the justification for war” because Saddam admitted he was bluffing about having weapons of mass destruction.
Two and a half months later, "60 Minutes" ran the first television interview with Piro. The interview buried the reference to Saddam’s WMD and nuclear plans, as did the press release on the CBS Web site. Likewise, an AP story on the interview mentioned Saddam’s plans in the 11th paragraph. Only four U.S. newspapers ran a story referring to Saddam’s WMD and nuclear plans.
The Washington Post ran a 542-word story on the interview leaving out any mention of Saddam’s avowed intentions. The New York Times ran no story at all.
Today, we have press censorship similar to what existed in the old Soviet Union, except the censors are journalists themselves, and it’s in reverse: News favorable to the government is suppressed.

I rest my case. z