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FRENCH FRIED FODDER- Uncontained Riot Recharges Talk Radio's Dead Batteries
The Radio Equalizer- Brian Maloney ^ | November 7th, 2005 | Brian Maloney

Posted on 11/07/2005 12:04:25 AM PST by chuckpez

If there's one cure for a Supreme talk radio overdose of nomination boredom, it's an uncontrollable riot.

But one in France? Can internal European issues engage American audiences?

While there may have been some doubt last week, there's simply no question it's now become impossible to ignore. And it's a great way to recharge talk radio's long-drained topical batteries.

Aren't the angles clear?

--- Why does the American media insist on avoiding the words "muslim" or "Islam" in coverage?

--- How can Europeans, quick to lambaste America over "slow" Katrina response times, explain France's inability to get a handle on the situation? ......

(Excerpt) Read more at radioequalizer.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: america; appeasement; bush; chicago; chirac; france; frenchriots; il; insurgency; islam; marksteyn; muslim; muslims; paris; parisriots; radio; religionofpeace; riots; suntimes; talkradio; wimps

1 posted on 11/07/2005 12:04:27 AM PST by chuckpez
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To: chuckpez
...it's a great way to recharge talk radio's long-drained topical batteries.

Is this guy on crack?

2 posted on 11/07/2005 12:27:49 AM PST by papertyger
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To: chuckpez

President Bush should send special envoy John F. Kerry to France to straighten out that mess. If anybody understands the French, he's their man. I believe that they polled the French, and he won the election for President of the United States by a decisive margin. He will show Chirac how to talk nicely to those rioters. Obviously they are not doing enough to appease them.


3 posted on 11/07/2005 12:36:08 AM PST by MikeHu
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To: chuckpez
His reprint of Mark Steyn's Chicago Sun-Times piece is the most potent of part of the entry:
''French youths fired at police and burned over 300 cars last night as towns around Paris experienced their worst night of violence in a week of urban unrest.''

''French youths,'' huh? You mean Pierre and Jacques and Marcel and Alphonse?

Granted that most of the "youths" are technically citizens of the French Republic, it doesn't take much time in les banlieus of Paris to discover that the rioters do not think of their primary identity as ''French'': They're young men from North Africa growing ever more estranged from the broader community with each passing year and wedded ever more intensely to an assertive Muslim identity more implacable than anything you're likely to find in the Middle East.

After four somnolent years, it turns out finally that there really is an explosive ''Arab street,'' but it's in Clichy-sous-Bois. The notion that Texas neocon arrogance was responsible for frosting up trans-Atlantic relations was always preposterous, even for someone as complacent and blinkered as John Kerry.

If you had millions of seething unassimilated Muslim youths in lawless suburbs ringing every major city, would you be so eager to send your troops into an Arab country fighting alongside the Americans?



4 posted on 11/07/2005 12:48:19 AM PST by counterpunch (~ Let O'Connor Go Home! ~)
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To: chuckpez

I've never been a big fan of Ryan Baloney


5 posted on 11/07/2005 12:54:01 AM PST by Rippin
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To: chuckpez
Great questions from Brian Maloney. . .

(I do not use a battery-operated radio however; so my reception has been great).

Think the challenge for a real news; as per Brian's challenges above - is one that must be redirected back to the MSM. . .they are reporting this story for sure at too low a level.

6 posted on 11/07/2005 3:15:27 AM PST by cricket (No Freedom - No Peace)
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To: chuckpez; All
Is Paris Burning? ( Religion of Peace® Alert )
Click the picture:

Islam, The Alleged Religion of Peace® ( TARP™ )? Click this picture:

No, I am not exaggerating. Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you are not informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.


Kindly note tagline...


7 posted on 11/07/2005 3:38:42 AM PST by backhoe (Anyone recall "A Clockwork Orange?")
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To: papertyger
...it's a great way to recharge talk radio's long-drained topical batteries.

Is this guy on crack?

Yes he is.

Talk radio, doing the job the Enemedia will not do.

8 posted on 11/07/2005 6:25:51 AM PST by A message
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