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UltmanFearbot
03/24/09

In reply to Canada Mistakes Fox News' Greg Gutfeld for Person of Influence
Since some people are saying lighten up, and it's no big deal, it's satire, I suggest Mr Gutfeld make similar type remarks regarding the US military. In a nation where anything sort of total support for the troops is considered treason, I don't think you'd get have a lot of laughter at the red eye's wacky, yet harmless brand of satire.
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Mediahohoho
03/25/09

@UltmanFearbot: Well, that probably wouldn't work, since it is well known that are military are, in fact, a big bunch of fags.
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Scott Hall
03/24/09

In reply to Canada Mistakes Fox News' Greg Gutfeld for Person of Influence
Rick Mercer succinctly stated- "If you're going to do satire, three of the most important rules are you have to tell the truth, you can't be a bully and don't be an asshole. Being a bully is not satire."
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DeadliestSin
03/24/09

@Scott Hall: And we all know Rick Mercer's word is God.
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Nicholas A. Chen-Yin
03/23/09

In reply to Canada Mistakes Fox News' Greg Gutfeld for Person of Influence
Meh. I'm not really concerned with any pending invasion. Canadian snipers are widely regarded as the world's best. I'll just plop one of them on my front porch, get some brewskis, some bacon, Hockey Night in Canada and call it a day.
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DeadliestSin
03/24/09

@Nicholas A. Chen-Yin: Don't you mean on your chesterfield?
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YalenaActor
03/23/09

In reply to Canada Mistakes Fox News' Greg Gutfeld for Person of Influence
Are you people crazy? I don't know if you know this but this show is a comedy show. Basically a shittier version of the Daily Show. Some of you say that they are just narrow minded frat boys with a humor to match but maybe you should look in the mirror. You are so quick to call names and talk of things you don't understand.
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mmstk101
03/23/09

@YalenaActor: As opposed to this "comic" who clearly has a full and complete understanding of this situation?
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mmstk101
03/23/09

@YalenaActor: Also, this show is on Fox, which pretends to be real news, as opposed to the Daily Show, which is on Comedy Central. Just saying.
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deva14
03/23/09

In reply to Canada Mistakes Fox News' Greg Gutfeld for Person of Influence
Everyone's so distraught by the anti-Canadianisms in this clip, they've totally overlooked the rampant homophobia.

Ah well. Just another day at Fox News, right?
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valet_of_the_dolls
03/23/09

@deva14: At FOX that's a feature, not a bug.
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DeadliestSin
03/23/09

In reply to Canada Mistakes Fox News' Greg Gutfeld for Person of Influence
@James Craig: Good thing to point out - also, I think Canadians are much more aware of our military because our media covers the war and has more access. We see those bodies being brought home in flag drapped caskets, we line up on the Highway of Heros and greet our fallen soldiers, we have much greater access to our military than the American media has to theirs, so we're given a constant visual reminder of the cost our men and women pay when they go overseas.
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Unionstn
03/23/09

In reply to Canada Mistakes Fox News' Greg Gutfeld for Person of Influence
Canada's government opposition party just 'appointed' (not elected) a guy who spent over 30 years not living in, or caring much, about his country of birth so it's funny to watch my fellow citizens get their 'Canada up' about this.

Why don't they put as much effort into the politics of their own country as they do in freaking out about some irrelevant Faux News bingo-caller? Cause they're too busy feeling holier-than-thou about the US and, um, gay marriage! Well now we've got a Science Minister who isn't clear about his feelings on creationism vs. evolution and an opposition leader that supported the war in Iraq and the Bush doctrine.

Face it Canada. Some mouthy jerk is the least of your problems.
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DeadliestSin
03/23/09

@Unionstn: The rock you intended for me to crawl back under is hidden somewhere behind my soap box.
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onebadclam
03/23/09

In reply to Canada Mistakes Fox News' Greg Gutfeld for Person of Influence
Red Eye is the chewy center of the Tootsie Pop that is Fox News. The rest of the news line-up may provide a micro-thin candy coating of supposed legitimate journalism but at its' core Fox News is just a bunch of frat boys cracking fag jokes. How long it takes to get to that chewy core is unknown since no one is willing to lick Bill O'Reilly.
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Pope John Peeps II
03/23/09

In reply to Canada Mistakes Fox News' Greg Gutfeld for Person of Influence
The problem is that Peter McKay is an absolute, unequivocal asshole. He's the brain-dead scion of a conservative clan that has been at the top of the stupid oligarchy that is Canadian politics for about three generations. He's a reactionary buffoon who doesn't know how to do anything else BUT complain. So of course, when this "scandal" happens, even though the origin is so stupid that nobody takes it seriously, he has to "stand up for our soldiers" and be seen. But really, does anyone in the Canadian Forces administration know who he is or care about him? no.
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Lonely Goatherd
03/23/09

@Pope John Peeps II: I agree. He's the mayor of Doucheville, and the least-qualified individual to speak for this country, but he's right.
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Pope John Peeps II
03/23/09

@Lonely Goatherd: He's not really right. He's using the good name of our country in a trivial, self-aggrandizing stunt that claims to "represent" our soldiers, but only sort of sullies our name by descending into an idiotic deathmatch with the world's stupidest man: greg gutfeld.
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Trixie from Toronto
03/23/09

@Pope John Peeps II: Remember that pathetic photo op in the potato patch after Belinda crossed the floor and dumped his ass? That was so lame.
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Unionstn
03/23/09

@Pope John Peeps II: He's better than Harper and Michael "Born-Again Canadian" Ignatieff.
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Pope John Peeps II
03/23/09

@Trixie from Toronto: god it was amazingly stupid. Denim shirt tucked into clean jeans, scratching the ears of his dog, Canadian reporters drooling all over themselves to let the little urban bumpkin have his folksy say, not reminding us that the little shit is from one of the most entitled families in our country.
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valet_of_the_dolls
03/23/09

@Trixie from Toronto: @Pope John Peeps II: Not only that, but didn't he have to travel for nearly a full day just to strike that 'casual' pose?
He & Greg Gutfeld actually kind of deserve each other.
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Pope John Peeps II
03/23/09

@Unionstn: eh. I suppose. If better means "stupider, and therefore does less things that I disagree with".

But on the other hand, just because a man has less ability to do evil, does that make him a better man? Doesn't that just make him as evil, but less competent?
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DeadliestSin
03/23/09

@Trixie from Toronto: I was wondering when someone would being Belinda.
The drama and scandal of Canadian politics!
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Trixie from Toronto
03/23/09

@Pope John Peeps II: And he was there for all of an hour. It was totally staged bullshit.
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jasonelias
03/23/09

In reply to Canada Mistakes Fox News' Greg Gutfeld for Person of Influence
Ol' Radio Face strikes again.
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Mediahohoho
03/23/09

In reply to Canada Mistakes Fox News' Greg Gutfeld for Person of Influence
Ignorant assholes.

"A total of 115* members of the Canadian Forces have died in Afghanistan between February 2002 and March 20, 2009. Of these, 97 were due to enemy actions, including 64 due to IED's or landmines, 22 due to RPG, small arms or mortar fire, and 11 due to suicide bomb attacks. Six Canadian soldiers died due to "friendly fire", while an additional 12 Canadian soldiers have died in Afghanistan as a result of accidents or non-combat circumstances; 6 in vehicle accidents, 2 from accidental falls, 2 from accidental gunshots, 1 suicide death, and 1 unspecified non-combat-related death.[11] More than 350 soldiers have been wounded since 2006.[12]

Also, every single one of the Canadian soldiers I've met--mostly in a peacekeeping unit in the Golan Heights--men and women, could physically dismantle every pussy on that set while downing a beer.
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TheRtHonPM
03/23/09

@Mediahohoho: For bonus points, would you like to know who caused at least four of those friendly-fire deaths? An American fighter jock with an itchy trigger finger.

[en.wikipedia.org]
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Mediahohoho
03/23/09

@TheRtHonPM: I remember it well.
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Piker247
03/23/09

@Mediahohoho:

Right... Ignorance = A satirical show doing satire. Get over yourself. Insensitive considering the timing maybe, but hardly ingnorant. Now gravy on french fries? Well, that is ignorant, sir.
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DeadliestSin
03/23/09

@Piker247: You forgot the cheese curds.
THAT is ignorant.
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Mediahohoho
03/23/09

@Piker247: I missed that they were attempting satire. Probably because it wasn't funny. Unless however, what they were satirizing is the profound ignorance and xenophobia of the average Fox News "personality." Then, well, brilliant. So...points for unintentionally mocking themselves.
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Aaron Altman
03/23/09

In reply to Canada Mistakes Fox News' Greg Gutfeld for Person of Influence
Gutfeld added, "Sorry aboot that, eh?"
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Trixie from Toronto
03/23/09

In reply to Canada Mistakes Fox News' Greg Gutfeld for Person of Influence
OK, normally I can laugh this stuff off with the rest of them, and I never get my tits in a knot about Canada-bashing, but it was just so xenophobic and ill-informed. Jesus, have none of them picked up a newspaper and read about what's going on in Afghanistan? We've been there since 2001 and have lost more soldiers per capita there than anyone else. Plus, we have a smaller population and therefore a much smaller army with not a lot of backup reserves.

The lack of knowledge pissed me off more than anything.
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josh speed
03/23/09

@Trixie from Toronto: Absolutely! And their piece of shit "TV show" was aired on the same day we sent four corpse-packed coffins home. Late or not, foolish or not, Canadians got your back [bacon], 20% of the world's fresh water, and FOX's sophomoric garbage makes us wonder why we agreed (again, like suckers, as we always do) to back you up in your imperialist, gas-guzzling, loser war.
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Trixie from Toronto
03/23/09

@josh speed: Thank you. You used to hate me. This warmed my heart. Canucks Unite!
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Pope John Peeps II
03/23/09

@Trixie from Toronto: we always end up uniting. It's a canada thing.
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Trixie from Toronto
03/23/09

@Pope John Peeps II: I thought Josh Speed's mention of bacon was a nice touch.
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DeadliestSin
03/23/09

@Trixie from Toronto: I've been cutting stories about this outrage for the past 4 days now (Editor for Global News) and it's one of the biggest "button pushers" I've seen in a few weeks.
Watching the footage from the show over and over has done nothing to diminish my disgust at the ignorange - I know it's Fox news and we really shouldn't expect anything better, but it's painful all the same knowing that if say, Rick Mercer or 'This hour has 22 minutes' were to critize the war in Iraq - even with correct statistics- hell and brimstone would rain down upon us north of the 49'th.
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Mount_Prion
03/23/09

In reply to Canada Mistakes Fox News' Greg Gutfeld for Person of Influence
It's called Red Eye because you have to be incredibly stoned to so much as chuckle at it.
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Ted Smith
03/23/09

I agree, you would have to be a very stoned American to enjoy this humor. USA SOLDIERS IN VIETNAM SURE GOT SCREWED UP WITH POT AND FIGHTING. POT isn't legal in Canada for possesion but they don't put you in jail for a year like in the USA. As a Canadian TV shows made for Pot smokers can say anything that makes pot seem better. This show has no value in a real society.
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Mount_Prion
03/23/09

@Ted Smith: Um...yeah? Uh...I mean, uh, yeah! I think.
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Understater
03/23/09

In reply to Canada Mistakes Fox News' Greg Gutfeld for Person of Influence
They should really rename this show Brown Eye, 'cause that's exactly what it is.
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EmersonErmine
03/23/09

@Understater: Oh please. It's hilarious. Far better than John Stewart's tired routine.
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Mediahohoho
03/23/09

@EmersonErmine: Thanks for letting us know how seriously we shouldn't take you.
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