WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. State Department Thursday dismissed as "just plain wrong" comments by a department research analyst that the relationship between Britain and the United States is "one-sided," favoring the Americans, and that the role played by Britain as a bridge between the United States and Europe is "disappearing before our eyes."

State Department research analyst Kendall Myers made the comments Tuesday while speaking at Johns Hopkins University, his alma mater where he has also taught for 30 years.

"It's one-sided," Myers said. "We typically ignore them and take no notice. ... It's a sad business."

Myers added that he was "a little ashamed" at the U.S. government's treatment of its ally, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, saying that Blair had never received any "payback" for his staunch support of the U.S. war in Iraq.