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Politics

Roll Over D'Souza and Tell Capt. America the News: America Still Exceptional in All Sorts of Ways

Nick Gillespie | 7.7.2014 9:04 AM

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The folks over Fox's Animation Domination Hi-Def shop came up with a nifty 4th of July vid.

It turns out that America is still really awesome, though not always in ways you fully want to admit.

Click above to watch.

Hat tip: Twitter feed of DrewFromTV.

For readers of a certain age, here's the mid-'60s cartoon opening the above vid parodies.

And here's the Spider-man cartoon opening that launched a thousand punk bands and accidents involving hairspray, silly string, and Cheez Whiz (come on, it can't just have been my pals and me):

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   12 years ago

    What country is first in all those good things and last in all those bad things listed?

    1. Head Stomp   12 years ago

      DPRK

  2. Rich   12 years ago

    Anybody else have difficulty seeing "D'Souza" without thinking "John Philip"?

  3. Notorious G.K.C.   12 years ago

    So where is the review of D'Souza's movie?

    1. Notorious G.K.C.   12 years ago

      John Fund has a review:

      http://www.nationalreview.com/.....-john-fund

  4. Almanian!   12 years ago

    No, Nick - it was just you. And your...."pals".

  5. Almanian!   12 years ago

    As to the list and 'murca's (or any other country's) "place" on any of its components, one word springs to mind:

    so?

  6. Spencer   12 years ago

    Isn't it really easy to pick metrics, arbitrarily claim they are goals worthy of achieving, and then pointing out how far we are from achieving them?

    "WHY is it a good thing to be X, vs the cost of attaining X? "

    "Because, leading men agree that X is something we should all strive for."

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