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The is a repost from "Media Research Center:.


NBC Delivers Upbeat Portrait of Americans
Moving to Canada

NBC on Friday night delivered a positive portrayal of U.S. citizens so upset by President Bush's re-election that they've moved to Canada. Reporter George Lewis highlighted how one woman "says Canada is more in tune with her liberal views than the USA." She then touted how Canada has "gun control and universal health care and no death penalty." Lewis trumpeted: "She's not alone. In Bellingham, Washington, Charles Key, a Vietnam veteran, is planning his move to Canada." Key claimed that America no longer stands "for freedom and diversity and tolerance." Without any regard for how the "pursuit of happiness" was declared in the Declaration of Independence for the USA, not Canada, Lewis relayed how the woman insisted that "all of us are entitled to the pursuit of happiness." She declared "I found my dreams in Canada" before Lewis jovially concluded: "And as she spots a bald eagle, she jokes that even America's national bird is taking a serious look at Canada."

Anchor Brian Williams set up the December 10 NBC Nightly News report: "NBC News 'In Depth' tonight. After the hard-fought election this nation has now been through, after the victory for President Bush and the red states, a lot of those on the losing end, the bluest of the blue, find life so unbearable they've made the ultimate decision: To leave. While neighbors wish them good riddance, they say they're going to a place they're welcome. NBC News 'In Depth' tonight: Here is George Lewis."

Lewis began, as checked against the closed-captioning by the MRC's Brad Wilmouth: "Lorraine Wright, originally from California, has pulled up anchor and headed to Canada. Do you think you'll spend the rest of your years here?"
Lorraine Wright, at a marina: "Absolutely."
Lewis: "As a Canadian citizen?"
Wright: "Absolutely."
Lewis: "Wright, who runs a hotel and tour company on Quadra Island, British Columbia, says Canada is more in tune with her liberal views than the USA."
Wright: "You know, they have gun control and universal health care and no death penalty."
Lewis: "She's not alone. In Bellingham, Washington, Charles Key, a Vietnam veteran, is planning his move to Canada."
Charles Key: "America no longer reflects my political and social values."
Lewis: "Spoken by a man whose ancestor, Francis Scott Key, wrote this:"
Clip of artist singing: "-the land of the free-"
Key: "'The land of the free and the home of the brave' to me always meant that America was supposed to stand for freedom and diversity and tolerance. And I don't think that it does anymore."
Lewis, at a border crossing: "So far Canadian officials say they haven't seen any huge exodus of Americans moving to Canada, but they do note that since the U.S. election thousands of Americans have been checking out the Canadian official immigration Web site. And in the last week, more than 300 people in Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco paid $25 apiece to attend seminars hosted by Canadian immigration lawyer Rudolph Kischer."
Rudolph Kischer, immigration lawyer: "Bush has been great for business."
Unidentified man: "Good riddance."
Lewis: "On a show televised in Canada, Charles Key noted there are plenty of Americans who think the idea of moving North is plain stupid."
Key on the TV show in Canada: "And it's reflected in words like 'good riddance' and 'don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.'"
Lewis: "Lorraine Wright says some may think of expats like her as traitors, but says all of us are entitled to the pursuit of happiness."
Wright: "I found my dreams in Canada."
Lewis concluded: "And as she spots a bald eagle, she jokes that even America's national bird is taking a serious look at Canada. George Lewis, NBC News, Quadra Island, British Columbia."

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Reply #26 from PolMach Forums Top
He was talking about other nations. Sure, you can take anything out of context to mean whatever you want.


I repeat, I am not talking about the context but of the American/Bush mentality. Whatever the statement any number of American politicains give - it often comes back to "You don't like it? Tough Shit" an "our way or the highway" mentality that seems to go against your very notion of democracy. If I am off topic and should be calling this people who moved from the US cowards or whatever, then I apologize. DUMB COWARDS! See I can come down to that level.
Reply #27 from JoeUser Forums Top

I repeat, I am not talking about the context but of the American/Bush mentality. Whatever the statement any number of American politicains give - it often comes back to "You don't like it? Tough Shit" an "our way or the highway" mentality that seems to go against your very notion of democracy. If I am off topic and should be calling this people who moved from the US cowards or whatever, then I apologize. DUMB COWARDS! See I can come down to that level.

Again,you re-iterate a fallacy.  No one is saying love it or leave it or even my way or the high way (except some corporate bosses perhaps, but no one in politics).  Sure, many are saying tough shit!  And that includes democrats (Tom Daschel ring a bell?), but that is just the arrogance of politics.  Or more exact, to the victor go the spoils.  The victor gets to call the shots.

So you are wrong.  Just admit it.  No one is telling anyone to leave.  If they do leave, then to them we say good riddance as we dont need quitters anyway.  You dont agree with Bush?  Stay and fight.  You dont like conservative Ideas?  Stay and debate.  But to run away just because you dont get your way is cowardly and wrong.  But it is legal, so while they can have their pity party north of us, we can tell them get lost quitter.

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