[QUOTE=Mr Punch;925455]I thought all of Fox was… Or do you mean literally?![/QUOTE]
That Red Eye show is a comedy program. It’s not very funny, but very deliberately NOT meant to be taken seriously. So don’t take it to heart.
Red Eye is a funny show, its not a news show. Its on at like 12:30am.
Lots of people make fun of Canadians in America. Kinda how Europeans and Canadians make fun of Americans. Funny how that works.
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[QUOTE=yenhoi;925471]Red Eye is a funny show, its not a news show. Its on at like 12:30am.
Lots of people make fun of Canadians in America. Kinda how Europeans and Canadians make fun of Americans. Funny how that works.
:eek:[/QUOTE]
well ok then, i guess i’ll make with the baby killer jokes and the rapist conqueror jokes then in regards to the us military. but just as a joke ok?
look, good natured ribbing is one thing, but petty shots in the dark simply aren’t funny, especially not on the day when we tally our dead. That’s just messed up.
Let’s try this again:
IT IS A COMEDY SHOW. IT IS NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. IT IS NOT STAFFED BY A ‘PANEL’ OF POLITICAL ANALYSTS, IT IS A BUNCH OF STIFFS WORKING THE OVERNIGHT SHIFT TRYING TO BE FUNNY FOR THE TINY AUDIENCE THAT MIGHT BE WATCHING. IT IS NOT MEANT TO REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF THE US GOVERNMENT, PEOPLE, OR THE STATION ON WHICH IT IS AIRED. IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE.
Shall we review every joke someone has made on air about the US in the past decade or so? Shall we review comments made by public officials of the various countries represented here about the US over the years and decide who is going to be more sensitive? RELAX.
Maybe you need to travel and become enlightened and calm the **** down.
The question of serving in the American or Canadian miltary has nothing to do with anything! One conviction’s is to speak up accordidng (be heard) and serving in a military bears no relevance in being heard. Again, some military members attempt to ehgage in political matters that they should not be but the times have definately changed. Free people speak as they wish.
semper fi
[QUOTE=Kansuke;925480]Let’s try this again:
IT IS A COMEDY SHOW. IT IS NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. IT IS NOT STAFFED BY A ‘PANEL’ OF POLITICAL ANALYSTS, IT IS A BUNCH OF STIFFS WORKING THE OVERNIGHT SHIFT TRYING TO BE FUNNY FOR THE TINY AUDIENCE THAT MIGHT BE WATCHING. IT IS NOT MEANT TO REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF THE US GOVERNMENT, PEOPLE, OR THE STATION ON WHICH IT IS AIRED. IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE.
Shall we review every joke someone has made on air about the US in the past decade or so? Shall we review comments made by public officials of the various countries represented here about the US over the years and decide who is going to be more sensitive? RELAX.
Maybe you need to travel and become enlightened and calm the **** down.[/QUOTE]
yeah we get it. So anyway, these 2 usmc babykillers walk into a bar. Because what usmc isn’t a drunken babykiller…anyway, one says to the bartender, “hey how about a glass of hot water” and the bartender looks at him all weird and says “what for” and he pulls out a freshly taken bandage from wounded mother and tells the bartender he wants to make some tea.
It’s hilarious isn’t it? don’t take it seriously, it’s just a fourm joke and doesn’t mean anything.
I got another one about obese uneducated americans who don’t know how to find their own state on a map of the world, wanna hear it?
Ok it goes like this, there were these three obese americans who couldn’t count past 100 and only ate chips and were basically in the category of group 2 functional illiterates. anyway, there they were cramming chesseburgers down their throats when a skinny chick walks by. They all experience erections the size of nubs and recognize that the hot women must be canadian because there is no way that an american girl wouldn’t be as big as them..
hilarious. want more? don’t take them seriously, it’s all just comedy gold. mind you, i don’t expect everyone to like the same jokes and I’m certainly not broadcasting over the air via fcc regulated stations or anything…so take those jokes even less seriously…
[QUOTE=David Jamieson;925475]well ok then, i guess i’ll make with the baby killer jokes and the rapist conqueror jokes then in regards to the us military. but just as a joke ok?
look, good natured ribbing is one thing, but petty shots in the dark simply aren’t funny, especially not on the day when we tally our dead. That’s just messed up.[/QUOTE]
Quoted for truth.
Here’s the thing: The daily show rips on Canada all the time. But they have Canadians on staff so they get it right and poke fun of cultural items that most Canadians think to be funny.
And so we don’t get offended over those jokes.
But when we’ve just had a bunch of soldiers killed fighting in Afghanistan it is not cool to belittle our military.
I don’t support the war and I think that was entirely uncalled for, comedy show or not.
What these fox news panelists said is down right disrespectful and inappropriate, especially since lives have been lost in the war. I would expect there to be some kind of apology soon…
You don’t joke about people dying in combat. That’s not funny.
You don’t joke about people dying in combat. That’s not funny.
qft
I have nothing but respect for servicemen in any country who are tasked with defending their country and carrying out UN sanctioned military efforts. That goes for all us soldiers as well even though I 100% do not agree with the policy and actions taken on Iraq.
you would never, ever in a million years hear anything of the sort about the American military on a public or private network.
darn straight those idiots should apologize profusely and publicly.
Fox news is the poo that poo scrapes off it’s shoes.
Sorry guys…I don’t like it when the media knocks our soldiers (which they do all the time) much less our Canadian brothers…whats worse is when the people in our government knock our soldiers…this happens frequently. Then there’s people like BD:o
[quote=david jamieson;925512]qft
i have nothing but respect for servicemen in any country who are tasked with defending their country and carrying out un sanctioned military efforts. That goes for all us soldiers as well even though i 100% do not agree with the policy and actions taken on iraq.
You would never, ever in a million years hear anything of the sort about the american military on a public or private network.
Darn straight those idiots should apologize profusely and publicly.[/quote]
hoo rah!!!
Most soldiers are guys doing a job.
As such they shouldn’t be any more or less subject to legitimate criticism than plumbers.
However illegitimate criticism of any person is nothing but petty name-calling at best and downright slander at worst.
That being said I’d much rather the soldiers of both our respective countries hanging around the homefront being prepared for threats of both the natural and man-made varieties and prepared to protect.
I do not believe in the doctrine of preemptive action and I am cynical enough to realize that although it is not the decision of soldiers to make whether to fight or not this does not abrogate either the duty of those who make the decision to do so responsibly (in fact it makes that responsibility more vital) nor does it abrogate the duty of soldiers to comport themselves in a fitting manner.
So Abu Ghrave… yeah… got a problem with that. As I would if plumbers were torturing people. However for the majority of soldiers who are just guys doing a job and trying to get by from day to day without getting shot: they have my complete sympathy.
[QUOTE=SimonM;925523]Most soldiers are guys doing a job.
As such they shouldn’t be any more or less subject to legitimate criticism than plumbers.
However illegitimate criticism of any person is nothing but petty name-calling at best and downright slander at worst.
That being said I’d much rather the soldiers of both our respective countries hanging around the homefront being prepared for threats of both the natural and man-made varieties and prepared to protect.
I do not believe in the doctrine of preemptive action and I am cynical enough to realize that although it is not the decision of soldiers to make whether to fight or not this does not abrogate either the duty of those who make the decision to do so responsibly (in fact it makes that responsibility more vital) nor does it abrogate the duty of soldiers to comport themselves in a fitting manner.
So Abu Ghrave… yeah… got a problem with that. As I would if plumbers were torturing people. However for the majority of soldiers who are just guys doing a job and trying to get by from day to day without getting shot: they have my complete sympathy.[/QUOTE]
I do agree with you, but Abu Ghrave, Gitmo, or any other prison, jail or detention facility…even nursing homes have abuse (same as torture) going on…it’s not soldiers…it’s people… were a sick animal (we’re still evolving:D).
BQ
This is true.
i cant think of anything good to say abotu fox
they let people like bill o’reilly have a voice
and that geraldo guy, **** that guy.
however i have met quite a few canadian servicement and they were great guys who are out there fighting the same war we all are
denmark has alot of troops there too and its disgusting people act like its just america and britain fighting this war.
One thing I would like to say is Thanks!!! to all the Canadian soldiers… especially the snipes…my sons in the 82nd Airborne and they helped covered his a$$ while his unit was repairing bridges:cool:.
BQ
[QUOTE=golden arhat;925545]i cant think of anything good to say abotu fox.[/QUOTE]
How about CNN? Can you think of anything good to say about them?
They aren’t as bad as Fox. That is all.