It looks like a Daily Show segment.
PWNED! YES!
(A tiny clarification – as with Iraq, some Canadian soldiers fought in Vietnam, but we were not involved in the war as a country, as we were in the world wars and in Korea.)
And we love the dear old CBC, yes we do. Actually, I’m surprised Annie didn’t melt, walking into the studio. “Actual journalism! It burrrrrrrrrrrnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnsssssssssssss!”
Who was the interviewer? I loved how cool and glib he was. He made her look stupid without breaking a sweat.
So … this does mean that Canada OWNS her now, right? And that Canada has to keep her, right?
And for God’s sake, give her her shots.
Well, Billy, I’m afraid we’ll have to send her to live on a farm. She’ll be happy there. And she can hunt rabbits. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
If anyone’s got a link to the transcript I’d like to read it.
Which illustrates that the neural path that controls “I’m so fucking sure of myself” is in no way connected to the “information retrieval and verification” path.
“I beseech you by the bowells of Christ, consider it possible that you may be wrong!”
I don’t have a link immediately available but it should be on the front page of www.metafilter.com
It’s pretty short so I can just summarize the basic exchange. I’ll spoilerize it.
[spoiler]It’s a little CBC segment which starts with a clip of Coulter on Hannity and Colmes making snotty remarks about Canadians for not supporting the Iraq War. There is a snippet of her saying that the US should “just roll over and crush them [Canada]”
Then it shows Coulter being interviewed by a CBC reporter who I’m not familiar with. She starts of on a rant about how Canada used to a great friend to the US and she says “Canada sent troops to Vietnam…” and starts comparing Nam to Iraq, intimating that Canada has gone pussy all of a sudden.
In the middle of her rant, the CBC guy stops her and says, “Um…Canada did not send troops to Vietnam.”
(paraphrasing now, but it’s close)
COULTER: I think you’re wrong
CBC: No. Canada did not send troops to Vietnam.
COULTER: Indochina?
CBC: Nope. World War Two, of course. Korea…yes. Vietnam…we took a pass on Vietnam.
Couter continues to protest a little and the CBC guy tells her that Australia sent troops to Nam but not Canada. Coulter looks really flustered and embarrassed, and she says, “I’ll get back to you.”
Cut away from interview to a voice over with the CBC guy saying, “She never got back to us, but for the record, Canada never sent troops to Vietnam.”[/spoiler]
It loses something without Coulter’s facial expressions and the tone of slight amusement on the part of the interviewer.
I captured the entire transcript but I think it’s way too big to post. Shoot me an email and I’ll send it to you.
Heh, you guys are really showing your commitment to the facts here. (Not that mere ‘facts’ ever stopped you before.)
Wow, she’s hot…
Ahem. I can understand why an American might believe Canada sent troops to Vietnam, because there were Canadians fighting in Vietnam. According to one website, some 40,000 Canadians enlisted in the various U.S. armed forces after 1959 (the start of significant American involvement) and many saw service in Vietnam, with 103 known Canadians killed and named on the Memorial Wall. Peter C. Lemon, born in Toronto, earned a Medal of Honor (Honour? heh) for action in Vietnam. In recent years, Canadian veterans have started to form groups for mutual support and also to fight various legal battles to get benefits from the U.S. government.
As for why so many of them enlisted (their total number matches or exceeds the number of Americans who bolted north to dodge the draft, incidentally), reasons are varied. Mostly, it seems to have been for a steady paycheck, adventure, to learn a trade, to kill commies, etc. Calling them “mercenaries” seems accurate enough.
Although the nation of Canada did not send troops, Canadians were there in significant numbers. If Coulter had heard vaguely about the veterans’ legal battles, and she’d made a few bad assumptions, I can understand why she thought Canada was officially involved. It’s still worth a chuckle, though. I mildly hoped Bob McKeown would point out that Canadians were involved in both World Wars well before the Americans showed up.
The whole thing, like Coulter’s original anti-Canada statement, is overblown.
Brutus, however, remains an idiot.
:eek: No kidding! I always thought she was some cranky old bitch but she is actually attractive.
On reflection, I’m surprised no-one’s yet suggested Canada close the border for fear of more mad cow imports.
Nah, its ok, Brutus, you can loathe her too. Its kind of like loathing Jesse Helms, its very non-partisan, because shes an embarassment to all humanity.
Loathe Jesse Helms, Friend of Bono? Madness.
Regardless, there were tens of thousands Canadians in Vietnam, and it doesn’t seem like the hoser doing the interview realized that.
Actually, I think your ignorance is more likely than his. It’s not just a matter of minor nitpicking. Canada didn’t send troops to Vietnam, but individual Canadians were free to join the U.S. military, and thousands did so.
Incidentally, numerous Americans came north to join Canadian forces early in the world wars, when the U.S. was officially neutral.
One bit that cracked me up though was Coulter’s “Indochina?”, wanting to make sure they were talking about the same Vietnam.