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Home Front: Politix
The Insufferable Shep Smith pokes at POTUS feud with Trudeau: 'Maybe we need a northern wall'
2018-06-12
[The Hill] Fox News host Shepard Smith on Monday poked at President Trump's war of words with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, joking that the U.S. may need "a northern wall."

"The United States and Canada are in a fight, obviously," Smith deadpanned while introducing a segment on his show Monday afternoon.

"President Trump accusing the country's prime minister of making false statements, and the president's trade adviser saying there's 'a special place in hell' for the leader of Canada, our biggest trading partner in all of the world, our best friend from way back in World War II and every time in between. Canada," he continued. "Maybe we need a northern wall."

Trump and a pair of his top advisers slammed Trudeau over the weekend after the Canadian leader said that all members of the Group of Seven industrialized nations reached an agreement at the conclusion of their summit in Quebec on Saturday.
Posted by:Besoeker

#15  Since I was a girl Canadians have been taught in school to define themselves in comparison to those dreadful Americans, just as once upon a time Germans were taught to define themselves in comparison to those dreadful, cosmopolitan Jews. Except without the genocide, of course.

And given the longstanding tradition of coming south illegally from Canada, a northern wall is not a bad idea — we could build it together with the Canadians as a joint project. A older Jewish lady in my writing group once told how her grandparents had emigrated to Canada, then a few years later the entire family drove across to Chicago, where they settled at the turn of the last century. Yes, it was quite illegal, she said, but so what? They eventually became good American citizens, even producing a famous novelist whose name I can never remember. “So what?” was also her attitude to the current illegals coming north from south of the border.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-06-12 23:08  

#14  The Insufferable News Hour would be a great name for a TV news show.
Posted by: SteveS   2018-06-12 20:29  

#13  Let's build a Southern closet for Shep while we're at it.
Posted by: charger   2018-06-12 18:35  

#12  As a major in American History, I remember things a bit differently. I remember the second one as a tie.

Well, except for the Native Americans who were being used as a buffer against American westward expansion by the Brits in Canada. They lost.

Oh, and on the second. Never start a war if you don't have an army to fight it with.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-06-12 15:57  

#11  Dixie staged an attack or two from Canada in the Civil War.
Posted by: 3dc   2018-06-12 15:42  

#10  Remember, in America's Wars we are 0-2 against Canada.

As a major in American History, I remember things a bit differently. I remember the second one as a tie.

As far as a north wall goes, remember that one planeload of the 9/11 hijackers flew in from Canada. Several years earlier a terrorist tried to smuggle in a truck bomb from Canada. He was captured when an American border guard noticed he was sweating profusely.
Posted by: Frozen Al   2018-06-12 13:45  

#9  Canada's purchase of the still in work pipeline to feed Alberta oil to the west coast has all sort of Washington tree-humpers in fits....
lots of fun to watch.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2018-06-12 13:36  

#8  They aren’t going to build a 5000 mile wall. They just send representatives to states to tell illegals stay in the US.
Posted by: Clem Kadiddlehopper9000   2018-06-12 12:13  

#7  Canada is Not the 51st state of the USA, got that and wish they would get over it, too! Wonder how much of that is the Quebecois feeling pissy and it just bleeds over to the general level of discourse...?
Remember, in America's Wars we are 0-2 against Canada. We have good stat's everywhere else, but the Canucks have handed us our ass in all of our squabbles up there.
Posted by: magpie   2018-06-12 10:49  

#6  Canada keeps importing islamofascits we might have to build a northern wall.
Posted by: DarthVader   2018-06-12 10:19  

#5  Canada, Canada, Canada.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-06-12 10:12  

#4  It would be Canada's right to build such a wall if they wanted one. Defending borders is one of those things that define a soverign nation.

I think they might be sad when they notice few Americans care. We tend to go places legally, and even our millionaires that constantly harp about leaving never seem to go.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-06-12 10:06  

#3  So pleased that I don't pay for FoxNews and by extension I don't pay sheppie's salary...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-06-12 07:18  

#2  The Canadians are starting the think about their own 'southernwall' . BTW, have we heard from our old Canadian troll about our treatment of illegals? /rhet
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-06-12 06:59  

#1  Smith is known for poking.
Posted by: Woodrow   2018-06-12 04:34  

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