Are Canadians Interested in the American Election?

This was the topic of conversation on today's CBC Radio 1 Cross Country Checkup show. I enjoy this show because they usually have a diverse set of interesting guests. What is always a predictable wall of ignorance are the majority of callers phoning up from all over Canada. For the most part, this is not a diverse group but rather an assortment of CBC Radio listeners, 99% of whom have ingested endless litres of mind-numbing Socialist Kool-Aid.

Here's the letter I sent them, which of course will not get read on-air because it doesn't fit in with their "narrative":


It's fascinating to listen in to the endless stream of devout CBC listeners, calling in to Cross Country Checkup today. Here's a sampling of the "brilliant" gems of fiction that several callers deeply believe to be true:

• George Bush stole the 2000 election.
• NAFTA and Free Trade in general is a terrible thing for Canadians.
• It's not a matter if the United States will implode and collapse, but when.
• Hillary Clinton has a lot of experience. (in what?)
• [The war in] Afghanistan was planned one year before 9/11.
• Stephen Harper is anti-woman.
• Ronald Reagan inspired just conservatives.
  

While such statements undoubtedly feed the frenzy of hatred amongst many Canadians toward 50% of Americans, they are absolutely and unequivocally false. But why let facts ever get in the way of prejudice?!