Cowboys and Europeans

Opinion Journal ^ | 05/24/2002 | The editors

[Pokey78]

An anti-Bush slur shows that America is on the right track.

You know America is on the right path when European cartoonists start drawing our president in a 10-gallon hat.

That's what's been happening to George W. Bush this week on his visit to the Continent. The German paper Die Zeit featured a cartoon of a cigar-chomping President Bush coming through the Brandenburg Gate as though he were walking into a saloon. In Moscow, street vendors are hawking wooden dolls with the president's face under a Stetson. In Berlin, the anti-Bush posters depict the president as a smiling cowboy with eyes painted a deadly red.

[Pokey78]

Ping!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Who cares what Europeans think? Bunch of idiots.

[Howlin]

I like Pokey's term: Eurosnots.

[Pokey78]

That's a Steyn original.

[goodnesswins]

It's sad that the some of the Eurostupids are appearing like Nazi's.... more and more....and we are going to have to probably save the majority of Europe's A**es....again. Don't they know that they are closer, physically, the problem countries than we are.....??? Oh, I forgot, they're stupid. Sheesh.

[blackbart.223]

"Alas, the Europeans haven't grasped that in America only college professors and actors consider "cowboy" an insult."

I'd rather be called a cowboy than a European.

[Lunatic Fringe]

The German paper Die Zeit featured a cartoon of a cigar-chomping President Bush coming through the Brandenburg Gate as though he were walking into a saloon.

Well, the joke's on them- he doesn't drink or smoke... but he does look good in a cowboy hat!

[rimmont]

Garry Wills, author of a critical Wayne biography, has said that the secret of John Wayne's endurance is that his films tap into "the primary American myths--the myth of Manifest Destiny, the myth of the frontier, the myth of American exceptionalism." As the late Joseph Campbell taught, myth is very powerful and very important. These corrosive leftists would replace our positive myths with negative ones. Revisionist history is no less mythical than traditional history and is often less accurate.

[mrustow]

"I'm an old cowhand,
From the Rio Grande ..."

"My heroes have always been cowboys."

[Southack]

Any European cartoonist worth spitting at would be poking fun at all of the anti-nuclear Left-wing activists protesting Bush as he's on his way to make the largest cut in global nuclear arsenals in world history...

[lowbridge]

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

Original essay by Luis Gonzalez

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Works for me, that's exactly what they are.

[Pokey78]

I'll add 1 more:

[Pokey78]

Of course Hoppy wears a black hat. hehe

[uglybiker]

Let's not forget
Ranger Doug!
Idol of American youth

[JohnHuang2]

Many thanks for the pings, Pokey.

[MeekOneGOP]

Cowboys and Europeans

Excerpt:

Alas, the Europeans haven't grasped that in America only college professors and actors consider "cowboy" an insult. Thus Susan Sarandon achieved honorary European status for remarks earlier this month, when she summed up terrorism and the U.S. response as follows: "When you have a guy who thinks the best act is to blow himself up, along with others, you have to ask, 'What leads to that?' And is the response more violence? A cowboy shoot-'em-up?"

Note to Ms. Sarandon: Rent "High Noon" and get back to us after you see how Grace Kelly resolves that particular issue......

The last American president our European cousins liked to call a cowboy was Ronald Reagan--when he deployed the Euromissiles, when he bombed Libya, when he called the Soviet Union an "Evil Empire." So it shouldn't bother a man from Texas to find the Euro-set calling him a cowboy: He's wearing the white hat.

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I'm rather fond of this one myself..........

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my ping list!. . .don't be shy.

[MeekOneGOP]

Well, the joke's on them- he doesn't drink or smoke... but he does look good in a cowboy hat!

I agree!