Too much Moore
What exactly is anti-Americanism? In lieu of a longer, detailed discussion of this difficult issue, distinguishing between people who merely e.g. disagree with Bush on Kyoto and people who actually hate the guts of everything American, let me offer this brief definition of media anti-Americanism:
You are anti-American if you tend to quote Michael Moore favourably.
It is not a flawless definition, but I think it has a very high predictive power of whatever the real thing is.
The Guardian is currently running his new "Dude" book as an article series (no surprise). The current chapter is basically a rehash of all the grand conspiracy theories of the loonie left, including the infamous Unocal Afghan gas pipeline and the Saudi's-owns-Bush. Bin Laden is a guy in a cave when that fits Moore's argument, and suddenly a multi-millionaire with extensive connections to the US administration when that fits his argument. Make up your mind, Moore. Which one is it?
It will be funny to see how these far-leftists, who are now constantly emphasising (rightly so) how evil the Saudi leadership is, deal with it if the US actually invade Saudi Arabia. Now, let me guess: "no blood for oil"?
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