The San Francisco Chronicle, on their FSGate.com web site, posted an editorial called “Canada Goes To Hell”. Unfortunately, he’s being ironic, not simply stating the facts as he sees them.
But the problem is of course the “facts”, and how he lays out these alleged facts—to his apparently very gullible liberal-left readers in San Francisco. I had to look it over twice to find any facts as opposed to obliterations of facts.
Apparently the writer, Mark Morford, a SF Gate columnist and a bigoted anti-conservative one at that, is a Michael Moore fanatic who like Moore is bereft of actual facts that support his leftist zealotry but has an amazing ability to rewrite reality to fit his bigotry and bias.
Every paragraph brings with it a new obfuscation and obliteration of fact. It’s funny in that just about every word of his editorial carries with it some degree of deceit.
[…] They are not, as of yet, abusing the hell out of their vast natural resources (freshwater, huge forests, oil and natural gas, mineral deposits, etc.) and embarrassing themselves on a global scale every single day and making a mockery of their constitution or their citizens’ civil liberties. What the hell is wrong with them?
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We hate gays and love guns and think pot is evil but hand out Prozac and Zoloft like Chiclets. Meanwhile (as “Bowling for Columbine” so beautifully illuminated), Canadians leave their doors unlocked and don’t feature violence and death on every newscast and still value community and diversity and discussion over solipsism and protectionism and a general hatred of foreigners and the French. See? We rule! Oh wait.
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They did it. Canada made the whole gay marriage issue look effortless and obvious and healthy, and a massive black rain of hellfire did not pour down upon them and the very idea of hetero marriage did not immediately explode and their economy did not unravel like all the sneering cardinals and right-wing nutballs screamed it would. We must ask, one last time: what the hell is wrong with them? […]
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