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p.s, these pink eye guys are beginning to feel the consequences. a canadian comedy club already told one of them not to bother coming to an upcoming gig and there's alot of pissed off people out there making all kinds of threats like throwing beers at them, etc.
There's a fair amount of US veterans of Afghanistan starting to write in too. Certainly, the US colleagues in my office were probably more offended than I was. I actually found the regurgitation of Canadian stereotypes funny. The red coats after all are asking to be poked fun at. It was the rest of the comments that were callous, particularly those of Benson.
I actually hope the show gets put back on. I would love to have him meet the fine soldiers from the PPCLI who would have no problem filling him in on Canada's fine military traditions.
On a separate but related note, what has really made Canada's outrage at the issue look bad is all the anti-american comments and Fox News bashing. Those don't help. I don't like Fox. But if we are to make comments about this Red Eye segment, you can win the debate simply by trashing the network and the country. That simply plays into the hands of the right wing nutjobs who see some leftist conspiracy to get Red Eye off the air.