This morning the Beeb carried a story about American's perceptions of the French. I know the BBC has impeccable Liberal credentials, but they used to have at least some standards that governed their rhetoric.
I guess strictly speaking it was an 'infotorial' even though it was embedded between news items. I think the piece stemmed from the web and video pamphlet work being done in South Carolina on Newt Romney. The silly syllogism used against Romney was: John Kerry speaks French (because he is an educated and therefore liberal man); John Kerry was an electoral disaster; Mitt Romney speaks French; and therefore Romney could not be be elected either. The first three premises are fine, but the final one does not follow.
The BBC BS endeavored to go them one better: Most Americans speak only English (punctuated with the old saw about "what do you call a man who speaks only one language"); Obama is apologizing for America and Americans don't like it; Obama is only apologetic for Americans who speak only English (which is silly on its face); and therefore criticism of Obama comes from uneducated people. The first premise is okay (but after all, all that melting pot stuff is so passe' in this enlightened and post constitutional Obama era) but Obama apologized for a lot more than that, and in fact seems to believe that America is the major force for evil in the world. This silly syllogism is analogous to very successful one that concludes that any criticism of Obama stems from racism and racism only.
Kerry is only relevant in reminding us why most Senators would make terrible Presidents. Both Kerry and Al Gore should be grateful to Al Franken for taking away the title of biggest stuffed shirt fool in the Senate. Okay I guess all three are relevant in that way.
A new old saw: What do you call a man that speaks only Spanish? An unregistered democrat voter.
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