Hating America
Friday, July 09, 2004
By Bill O'Reilly

Hi, I'm Bill O'Reilly. Thank you for watching us tonight.

Hating America. That is the subject of this evening's "Talking Points Memo." According to a new poll, 40 percent of Canadian teenagers think America is an evil country. Among French-Canadian teens, the number jumps to 64 percent. Those numbers can be laid right on the doorstep of the Canadian media and government

As you may know, the FOX News Channel is not allowed in Canada, but CNN is. Fair and balanced? You decide.

The USA takes a relentless pounding from many Canadian news organizations and from the liberal government. So, what can we expect from the kids? They're not getting a full picture. And neither is most of the world.

Increasingly, the bully America is being portrayed as the devil. And the far left in this country is gleefully piling on. Guys like Michael Moore [are] running around the world telling everybody what a bad place America is. Moore and his enablers should be very proud of themselves

For the benefit of the Canadian kids, let's take a look at the record:

•The foreign and defense policies of Ronald Reagan (search) resulted in the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the freeing of approximately 122 million people in Eastern Europe.

• The state of Israel would cease to exist if not for American protection, and about 5.5 million Jews would be in grave danger.

• Nearly 23 million Taiwanese would be denied freedom if not for American protection. More than 48 million South Koreans would be living under a dictatorship if not for American protection. USA action led to the removal of the Serbian dictator Milosevic (search), who was responsible for the murders of hundreds of thousands of people in the Balkans.

• The USA and Britain removed the Iraqi dictator Hussein, who was responsible for the murders of hundreds of thousands of people in the Middle East. And we have also removed the terrorist Taliban government in Afghanistan.

• America is sending $15 billion to Africa to help victims of AIDS. We were unable to find out how much France contributes, if anything. To be fair, Canada sends $270 million, which is substantial.

• American action in Central America, Grenada (search), and Haiti (search) has kept millions of people out of totalitarian regimes. Of course, all of this has cost every American taxpayer big. And thousands of American servicepeople have lost their lives protecting people overseas.

It is insulting and dishonest for Americans and Canadians and Europeans to condemn this country because they don't like certain policies. Dissent is good. Slander is unacceptable.

The truth is that the USA has freed more human beings in 230 years than the rest of the world combined. France has freed almost no one. Ditto Canada.

So, pardon me as I object to the Michael Moores of the world — and that man is too cowardly to come in here, all right? Pardon me as I object to the anti-American foreign press and bums like Chirac in France and Chretien in Canada.

America has a provable history of freeing oppressed people all over the world in fighting evil dictators. Canada should be ashamed that so many of its young people are flat out ignorant. And Americans should wise up and realize we are living in a changing world. Old friends are not necessarily true friends.

And that's "The Memo."



FYI, France has actually freed millions when their colonies revolted or were dumped. Let us review their history in Africa and SE Asia to add to the legacy of "Vichy France".

TR

HAHAHA!!! All your bases are become us!!

Source: Coors, Molson in Merger Talks
Monday, July 19, 2004

NEW YORK — Adolph Coors Co. (RKY), the No. 3 U.S. brewer, is engaged in talks to merge with Canadian brewing company Molson Inc. (search), hoping to create a more powerful rival to market leaders SABMiller and Anheuser-Busch (BUD), sources close to the situation said Monday.

The talks remain tenuous and could break down at any time, the sources said. Still, if successful, the deal would solve expansion issues for both companies, which have watched larger rivals snatch up competitors around the globe the past few years.

Denver-based Coors, in particular, has struggled of late to overcome a health-conscious shift away from beer to wine and distilled spirits. Unlike other brands, Coors has yet to introduce a successful low-carbohydrate beer and the company's Coors Light brand is losing share to SABMiller's Miller Lite and Anheuser-Busch's Bud Light.

Molson, Canada's oldest brewer, has been searching for ways to gain a leg up on rival Labatt, owned by Interbrew. The company bought Brazil's Kaiser brewery in 2002 in an effort to expand its reach into South America, but the venture has proved to be a drain on its profits.

Both Coors and Molson did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

Coors and Molson already have joint ventures to distribute each other's products in the United States and Canada so it is hard to see how a combination would benefit them, said Benj Steinman, editor of industry trade newsletter Beer Marketer's Insights.


"It makes them bigger on the global scene," Steinman said. "But no major synergies are immediately apparent."

Others agreed that while the combination would provide added heft, the deal seemed to provide little growth momentum.

"There would be some short-term cost synergies but long term strategic benefit I don't see a lot of change from the status quo," said Michael Van Aelst, analyst with CIBC World Markets. "They both already have significant relationships with each other in North America, I don't see strategic benefit to this type of a merger."

Several obstacles remain that could prevent the merger from happening, the sources said. The most important perhaps is who would run the combined company.

Coors' founding family controls about one-third of the company's voting stock. But after four generations of being family run, the chain was disrupted recently by Chairman Peter Coors' (search) declaration that he would run for a U.S. Senate seat.

Molson's leadership status is equally in flux. The 218-year old company saw deputy chairman Ian Molson quit in June after a dispute with the company's chairman and his cousin, Eric Molson, splitting the Molson family in two.

Coors shares climbed $3.67, or 5 percent, to $76.69 in morning trading on the New York Stock Exchange on word of the talks, first reported in the Wall Street Journal. Molson shares climbed 90 cents to C$33.50 on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

I love that deal! Molson knows how to brew good beer, and Coors does not. Just my opinion.

I think you are reversing the likely outcome.

Remember Lowenbrau?

TR

I remember the beer. What ever happened to it?

Used to be German, bought out by Miller to be their premium, manufacture moved to the U.S., taste changed to Miller, brand killed (at least here in the U.S.). Brew probably knows more about it than I do.

What do you think Coors will do with Molsen?

TR

Ugh. That would be just awful. :(