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<br><BR>Here's the video: <br><BR><font style="font-size: 10pt;" face="Tahoma " size="2"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YI7Oq8y-jXA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YI7Oq8y-jXA</a></font><BR><br><BR>Jeff Daniels plays the ranting news anchor in this ten-episode HBO series. In a panel discussion a <br><BR>college sophomore asks him to say "why America is the greatest country in the world," he snaps:<br><BR><br><BR><br><BR><br><BR>There is absolutely no evidence to support the
statement that we're the greatest country in the world. <br><BR>We're seventh in
literacy, twenty-seventh in math, twenty-second in science, forty-ninth
in life expectancy,<BR> 178th in infant mortality, third in median
household income, number four in labor force, and number four in<BR>
exports. We lead the world in only three categories: number of
incarcerated citizens per capita, number of <br><BR>adults who believe angels
are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next
twenty-six <br><BR>countries combined, twenty-five of whom are allies. None of
this is the fault of a 20-year-old college student, <br><BR>but you,
nonetheless, are without a doubt, a member of the
WORST-period-GENERATION-period-EVER-period, <br><BR>so when you ask what makes
us the greatest country in the world, <i>I don't know what the fuck you're talking <br></i><BR><i>about?! Yosemite?!!!</i><BR></blockquote><br><blockquote>
We sure used to be. We stood up for what was right! We fought for moral
reasons, we passed and struck <br><BR>down laws for moral reasons. We waged wars
on poverty, not poor people. We sacrificed, we cared about <br><BR>our
neighbors, we put our money where our mouths were, and we never beat our
chest. We built great big <br><BR>things, made ungodly technological advances,
explored the universe, cured diseases, and cultivated the world's <br><BR>greatest artists and the world's greatest economy. We reached for the
stars, and we acted like men. We <br><BR>aspired to intelligence; we didn't
belittle it; it didn't make us feel inferior. We didn't identify
ourselves by who<BR> we voted for in the last election, and we didn't scare
so easy. And we were able to be all these things and <br><BR>do all these things
because we were informed. By great men, men who were revered. The first
step in solving <br><BR>any problem is recognizing there is one—America is not
the greatest country in the world anymore.<BR></blockquote><br> </div></body>
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