Anti-Europeanism in the U.S.

In his Foreign Policy blog Simon Tisdall focused on a phenomenon - U.S. aniteuropeanism - that is a lot less studied than anti-Americanism. And he derides "en passant" the poor rationality of the "Europe bashers".
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/07/15/venus_envy?page=0,1