Patriots on the Right
Looking back on the original National Post, what offended me most about it was its obscene, to the point of grotesque slavering, reverence for all things American, while it disowned, day after propagandistic day, with a sneering private schoolboy contempt, all manner of Canadiana.
I wouldn't be offended now, however, I'd be amused. That's because somewhere along the way I realized that those same self-loathing Canadians were admiring of that which makes Americans so intolerable to the rest of the world - their deaf, dumb and blind Patriotism.
It also occurred to me that those same self-loathing America-lurvin' Canadians were/are lacking that which Americans revere even more than freedom fries: deaf, dumb and blind Patriotism. Ironical, eh?
(I know, I know - "deaf, dumb and blind" is so politically incorrect I may as well be a Rightwing Canadian. Or write for the National Post.)
