CNN Is Surprised The South Is Welcoming Foreign World Cup Touristshttps://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2026/06/12/cnn-surprised-south-welcoming-foreign-world-cup-touristsOver the past couple of days, social media has been filled with foreign tourists marveling over aspects of American culture and hospitality ahead of the World Cup. For CNN sports analyst Christine Brennan, this was a surprising development, especially for tourists visiting the South. On Friday’s edition of The Situation Room, Brennan told hosts Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown that “we would never have anticipated” such hospitality given the country’s reputation as being “inhospitable.” Brennan never clarified who she meant by “we.”
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Brennan conceded, “That is so fun. That's the flip side of the conversation we were just having, is that these tourists are still coming. The ones who can, certainly Europeans, people who love soccer way more than the United States. It's been a part of their lives for, you know, ever where for us, as Coy was saying, it's a newer game on the women's and men's side.”
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It is not just Europeans. Another viral sensation has been Algerians experiencing Kansas hospitality.
However, things kept going downhill when Brennan continued, “And so, that—I've looked at those tweets from him just, he's having a delight, and Americans are loving that too. And I saw some conversation, Wolf and Pamela, about how the rest of the world is looking at the United States and feeling that we are—it's a foreboding image and that we are inhospitable.”
Returning to Freddy, Brennan concluded, “And here is a German tourist, and others as well, now on social media saying, 'No, no, the Americans are great.' So, what a shame that that's the image that the world has. Many have of us. But how wonderful again, that sports can bring people here and show people that the United States and, you know, the South is welcoming a German tourist in a way we would never have anticipated.”
If Brennan is surprised that the country, but especially the South, is welcoming foreign tourists and teams, then that says more about her, the media, and propagators of anti-American stereotypes than anybody else. ...
My emphasis. BTW, the negative stereotypes of the US and the US South are not only the product of US MSM. It's a set of lies propagated by worldwide US-hating MSM. Underlying CNN's faux-surprise is the
Oh-Bleep realization that those stereotypes will be getting cracks from people who saw reality and spoke with their friends and coworkers.
