Rick Mercer doesn’t do these “interviews” anymore. Too easy and too predictable. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel to get the “average” American to make a complete fool of him/herself on TV.

But I don’t blame that “average” American for his/her ignorance. The introspective and introverted American education system is focussed almost entirely on “the greatest country in the world.” If it doesn’t exist or happen in the 50 states, IT JUST DOESN’T MATTER!

Americans who choose to get their higher educations elsewhere… Canada, England, Europe, for example, have a much more balanced and enlightened view of things… too bad there weren’t more of them!

Mercer did this stuff back in the late 90s-early 00s. In 2000 he got then-governor George W. Bush to thank Canadian prime minister “Jean Poutine” for his support. (Jean Chretien was the prime minister; poutine is a french fry-cheese curd-beef gravy side dish.) VP Al Gore agreed that, if elected, he would visit the Canadian capital of Toronto (it’s actually Ottawa).

Truthdig? I don’t know where you did this one out, but judging by Huckabee’s fatness (governor of AR), its several years old.