Last week (September 21st) apparently CTV slipped up and aired the wrong version of a show called Grey’s Anatomy.
(I’m aware it’s a popular show, I’ve never watched it) Anyway, they put the second episode on instead of the season opener, and CTV apologized with good humour.
The shows fans were upset, fan react is a given.
This is MSNBC, a gentlemen named Tucker Carlson who has his own show talking to a producer about CTV’s slip up.
After Geist invited Carlson to “to take this isolated story and turn it into a larger point about the incompetence of Canada,” Carlson responded: “It’s too easy, Willie. … I feel like I’m beating up a retarded cousin almost.” Geist hurriedly added: “I’m going to move on quickly. Maybe nobody will notice you said it.”
This is not the first time Carlson has referred to Canada in this manner. As Media Matters for America has noted, following former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin’s 2005 remarks criticizing U.S. global environmental policies, a number of conservative media figures, including Carlson, attacked Canada, hurling baseless accusations and derogatory comments at the United States’ northern neighbor. On the December 15, 2005, edition of MSNBC’s The Situation with Tucker Carlson, Carlson dismissed the entire country as “essentially a stalker,” and described Canada as “your retarded cousin you see at Thanksgiving.”
What’s rather funny is the discussion thread under this turns into the usual liberal/conservative US-centric down slope. We’ll quickly move on and pretend we didn’t notice.
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I think the US commentator in question is named Tucker Carlson, not Carlson Tucker as you had it in your part of the piece. Tucker is his first name, even though it looks more like it should be the other way around.
Every country has its share of fubars and snafus; it’s sophomoric to make fun of minor mistakes elsewhere. However, sophomoric humor has its following, moreso than we’d all like.
Thanks Mark fixed.:^) A bit sophomoric of me to mix his name up.
We have our share of juvenile public humour, making fun of other countries is very much part of the genre like it’s an inside joke.
I didn’t find this broad shot offensive - I think at a point in time where the US has enough image problems world wide, not knowing your neighbours isn’t exactly being a shining light on the hill. And that means both sides of the border.