I'll never forget listening to Rutherford on sept 11 or shortly thereafter... Some girl called in and basically said that the USA deserved it and so on. Rutherford entertained her for a couple of minutes and drew out that she was 16 years old, and basically hated the US because her dad and brother told her to.
She was from Lebanon, IIRC, and had absolutely no basis for her arguemant (at least nothing she could articulate on the spot, on the air). Just a bunch of "they deserved it" "they do all kinds of things to other countries" "they hate muslims so we hate them". Not one actual 'reason'. Just a 16 year old kid that hates an entire nation because her daddy does.
Yeah, sure there are people with pretty damn legitimate reasons to be ****ed off with the USA (and I guess, Canada?), but to poison your child's mind or your young wife's mind with blind hatred is despicable.
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