John Stossel also had a six hour television special asking "Is America Really Number One?" Does that make him unamerican? this columnist doesn't come close to hating 'everything' about america as your headline suggests. he doesn't hate the free press, free speech, the poor, the scientists, the academics or the progressives. no, the people who hate those things would neeeeever have their patriotism questioned. but complain about a shitty infrastructure, a neglected lower class and non existent universal healthcare? then it's 'america, love it or leave it.'

Exactly where in that article does he state his hatred for quote "Everything about America"??????

His analysis of some of the prevailing attitutdes seems rather accurate to me.

Not entirely sure the blame FEMA, Bush etc is entirely fair. In any Nature vs Man battle Nature will by and large win. Surely the thing to do now is fix whats broken, move on and learn from it.

Harold Meyerson only hates America because he hates himself. He hates himself because the left have caused all these problems.

1. The catastrophic lack of response in New Orleans was due to a left-wing mayor and a left-wing governor. Bush asked the Governor permission to run the rescue efforts one day before the storm hit. The left-wing Governor kept the feds out until four days after the storm hit. Both the mayor and the governor had the equipment and the power to evacuate those people. This is the first time in history that both the city and the state did nothing for its people in an emergency.

2. The lack of infrastructure spending he laments was more under Bush than it was Clinton. Left-wing environmentalists have successfully sued to stop that money being spent on Mississippi levees. The left caused those levees to give out.

3. The left has been in control of all our urban centers for the last 50 years. Their policies have created a permanent underclass in those cities. The left have brought nothing but despair, destruction and death to minorities.

Left-wing MSM like the Washington Post and Harold Meyerson have kept those corrupt left-wing politicians in power. And that is why Harold hates himself most of all.

I'd rather we throw out those who are here illegally and those who abandon their loyalty to America by voting in the elections of other nations first. But on immigration, just like on so many other issues, political hacks of both parties do not put Americans first.

Von Bek:

I agree with you. Illegal voting keeps these corrupt left-wing politicians in power.

Dawn, if you think the disgusting things he says about America and Americans don't construe hating this country and its people, I don't know what to tell you. The fact that Nick Saunders, who believes nearly ever anti-American stereotype as fact, agrees with him should give you a clue.

I don't agree with every single Anti-American stereotype.

I just agree with the majority of the ones i come into contact with.

Karol:

Meyerson sounds like a bitter left-winger. But, that does not make him anti-American. I love my country but I do not particularly love the politicians who run it. In America, one can love one's country but also be a critic.

Von Bek is right that disloyalty to America is putting other countries first. Meyerson does not do that. He wants America to be a better place(though I may not agreee on his diagnosis of the problems here nor his precription).

I have actually found many so-called right-wingers more anti-American than left-wingers. Many right-wingers seem happy for Americans soldiers to fight for the benefit of other countries rather than for the benefit of their own country.

Dan

Hating America is a great way to blame yourself without accepting responsibility for anything. With Meyerson, I think he hates his own caricature of America, which he draws in order to appear decent next to it.

Dan:

Many right-wingers seem happy for Americans soldiers to fight for the benefit of other countries rather than for the benefit of their own country.

You base your argument on the assumption that the removal of Saddam did not benefit America, which is not a fact but an opinion, held mostly by people who trust Michael Moore or Pat Buchanan to design American foreign policy. The majority of Americans do not share that view, in case you still haven't noticed.

Ivan:

I base my argument based on what people who supported the war said. Bush claimed that liberation of Iraqis was a motive for the war. I think that it is unpatriotic to send Americans to die for the benefit of people in other countries. I think that we should only go to war if it benefit Americans.

I understand that proponents believe that the war was supposed to benefit America, too. Nonetheless, it is unpatriotic to make an argument for the war where the justification is to benefit foreigners.

Dan

Meyerson sounds like a bitter left-winger. But, that does not make him anti-American. I love my country but I do not particularly love the politicians who run it. In America, one can love one's country but also be a critic.

Meyerson isn't talking about the politicians, he's talking about Americans.

And, Dan, Iraqis being free in a normal country that doesn't have children's prisons or people shredders is a benefit to us. Their stability and normalcy makes us safer. It's one of those win-win situations.

I certainly don't think this country is the best in the world.

There are lots of other respectable places to live. And I have lived elsewhere before. And other countries certainly give this country a run for the money.

Australia, for example, kicks ass. Better weather too.

But this is the country I was born in, and I'll do my best to make it better.

But there certainly are a lot of shitty things in this country. Our celluar service pales in comparison to Europe and Japan. And there is nothing wrong with pointing that out in order to fix it.

Sorry, if I'm not going to jump onto the jingoistic bandwagon.

But New York, on the other hand. New York is certainly the best country in the world, and anyone who disagrees is a terrorist.

Meant to say New York is the best CITY in the world. Unfortunately, we have still not seceded, so we can't be our own country. Yet.

Karol:

As you know, I disagree with you about the merits of the Iraq War. But my point is not to reargue about whether or not the Iraq War was good for the U.S.

What I think is un-American is to say that the Iraq War was a good war because it was good for the Iraqis. Or to say that the Iraq War was good because it was good for Israel (as some people have told me). The only criteria should be if the war was good for the U.S. Any other argument strikes me as un-American.

Dan