Brits out

Piers Morgan is garnering a lot of attention in this country, and it's mixed at best.  For me, Morgan is an intelligent and articulate person, someone adept at manipulating the system and unafraid of voicing his opinion.  Were that all, he wouldn't annoy me so much.  Add to it that he's a Brit and it's unbearable.

For me, this pretty well sums up my feelings about the Brits:

Actually, it goes further, when the conquest of Ireland started.  But as this is focused on Morgan's meddling in American politics, it fits.

Morgan is not a US citizen. From what I understand, he's here on a worker visa.  I know his schtick is to stir things up, but he really needs to keep his nose out of our politics.  Unfortunately, he's only acting in accord with his genetic make-up. 

Back when Bush and Kerry were vying for the White House in 2004, the Guardian ran what was called Operation Clark County asking its readers to send letters supportive of Kerry to voters in Ohio that it felt was crucial to the election.  Incredibly, 11,000 readers wrote to Americans telling us this:

Don't be so ashamed of your president: the majority of you didn't vote for him. If Bush is finally elected properly, that will be the time for Americans travelling abroad to simulate a Canadian accent. Please don't let it come to that. Vote against Bin Laden's dream candidate. Vote to send Bush packing.

When it appeared that the Guardian's operation wasn't going to work, it's editor wrote:

The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr.—where are you now that we need you?

I don't for a second suggest that the Guardian or its readers should have supported Bush instead; in this country, at least until recently, our minds aren't controlled by the government.   But when they feel it's their right to tell us how to live, how we should vote, how we should love our country -- them's fighting words.

I won't rely on all the old arguments that most Americans use.  I prefer to use British behavior instead.  Take this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RplzKlSlbR0

Yep, those are British fans booing the Star Spangled Banner after they sang their lungs out for their national anthem without any booing from American fans.  Yet we're the ones who are guilty of flag-waving.  Amazing.

The hypocrisy of the British is boundless.  I'm sick to death of hearing their accents on our televisions and radios, sick of hearing about the royal family, sick of hearing about anything British. 

This is not a perfect country or a perfect society, but it's mine.  I was born here, reared here and will die here.  I would die for this country in a second.  It's highly imperfect but to date the best social experiment in the history of mankind, Plato be damned.  Whether the Brits like it is immaterial, but they should respect it.

Then again, one thing the Brits aren't very good at is respecting other peoples and their cultures.

Well, that and dental care.

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