Poor Americans. Everyone makes fun of them. If you’re Canadian, you may know the segment of the TV Show “This Hour Has 22 Minutes” entitled “Talking to Americans”, in which the show’s hosts attempt to convince some hapless American that Canada has a National Igloo, that our Prime Minister is some famous and deceased hockey player, that we have no electricity, etc.
Of course, I’m pretty sure the producers get the dumbest people they can. Ignorance is not an American-only thing, and I’m sure that one could easily find just as many stupid Canadians or what not. But nonetheless, the American populace are subject to yet another brush here, in a segment called “On the Streets of America” from CNNN. CNNN is a kind of parodic news network owned by ABC.
Download clip: On the Streets of America.
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2 responses to “Poor, poor Americans.”
Seen that clip a few days ago all I can say is shame on them. Just the ones being interviewed here that is. There are a lot of Americans that are just brilliant.
They actually made a special from the “Talking to Americans” segments. They spoke to various governors of some States in the US, including some states on the Canadian / US border, and even they fell for the “National Igloo” and some of the other things said by the presenter.
George Bush, while running for office, even thought that the Canadian Prime Minister was named after a French Canadian food dish. (Granted, the name was pretty close Jean Chretien was the Prime Minister, the presenter called him Jean Poutine.)