Get the Facts Straight Billy

By CLS

As a Canadian by birth who has spent all of their adult life in the United States, I am accustomed to egregious stereotypes, insipid jokes, and unbridled ignorance from Americans towards the land of my birth. After much exposure to all of these, nothing really surprises me anymore when it comes to the misguided nationalist zeal of many jingoistic Americans on the right (and left might I add).

However, in light of the recent debate on health-care reform in the US, Canada has once again been brought into the fray by proponents of the current privatized order as an example of everything wrong with a socialized system of medicine. Despite the fact that most of their claims are complete falsehoods, if not out and out fabrications, take it upon partisan hack, and professional liar/demagogue Bill O’ Reilly to take statistical dishonesty to a new plateau of horseshit.