Friday, April 09, 2010

On O'Reilly, British-American Varney calls Europeans "a pack of pagan losers".



List of country's according to the Human Development Index.

  1. Norway 0.971 ( 1)
  2. Australia 0.970 ( 2)
  3. Iceland 0.969 ( 2)
  4. Canada 0.966 ( 1)
  5. Ireland 0.965 ()
  6. Netherlands 0.964 ()
  7. Sweden 0.963 ()
  8. France 0.961 ( 3)
  9. Switzerland 0.960 ()
  10. Japan 0.960 ()
  11. Luxembourg 0.960 ( 3)
  12. Finland 0.959 ( 1)
  13. United States 0.956 ( 1)
Those Norwegian pagans aren't doing too badly. One can argue forever over the meaning of different measurements, but it really is crass for Varney to dismiss an entire continent in this way, especially as some Europeans enjoy a higher quality of life than many others on the planet, including many Americans.

But what do Fox care about trifling matters such as facts?

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