According to CNN reporter Zain Verjee, the ENTIRE WORLD loathes the United States (which, of course, is categorically false). She had the respect and professionalism to tell Condoleezza Rice how much the world hates us repeatedly in this video, but apparently, she forgot that Condoleezza Rice is not a sniveling, spineless wimp who is just begging for CNN to love her:

Ed’s got some good perspective on this:

Maybe a better indicator of “loathing” measure would be the reaction of the other journalists at the press conference. Did they attack the dais after the shoes started to fly? No — they attacked the journalist who shied his slippers at Bush. Most of them, even if they don’t like Bush, castigated their colleague for his unprofessionalism.

Here’s one last question for Verjee to answer. Since she uses the reaction of a few thousand Arabs in the streets as credible proof that the world “loathes” the United States, what conclusions does she draw from the millions that screamed for blood after the publication of the Mohammad cartoons in Denmark — that all Danes should get killed? That all journalists should be fair game for attack?

It’s just funny because, you know, the world actually doesn’t hate us. If this is such a terrible country, then why is it the number one country for foreigners to immigrate to? I don’t think you’d move to a place you absolutely despised, do you? And this study may surprise Ms. Verjee, which found that Europeans saw Americans as polite, well-behaved, interested in local culture, exceedingly generous, and in general the second-best tourists in the world behind only the Japanese.

But hey, they all secretly hate us. That’s what we need to know.