Of course virtually nobody outside the US knows who Harrison is. I was inserting that as a frame of reference to American audiences. If it’s not meant to be Amero-centric, why use an American frame of reference at all?
LIDD’L BRUDDAH! He’s got the heart of a champion! You just keep scrapin’ along!
He can make it on his own. He’s the king of the dregs with minus three legs!
- Duh. Everybody knows that.
Seriously, prior to this thread I didn’t know when Harrison served, and might not have recognized him as a US President if his name were not brought up in a presidential context, and I didn’t know when Wounded Knee was. And I am noted for my ability to win trivia contests among friends – these are obscure factoids. But the date is given in the sentence, and the Wounded Knee reference, as I explained, gives the Wild West cowboys and Indians flavor of the times. That’s all it was intended to do, that we know of. The reporter may indeed hate America, but we can’t draw that conclusion from the fact that they cited Wounded Knee. There was a bestseller about Wounded Knee. If there had been a bestseller about Harrison, things might be different. But there wasn’t.