Posted on 11/13/2005 8:35:36 AM PST by indcons
Remember the French ridicule and French commentary on "American racism" after Katrina?
Put some iced mousse on it.
> By the end of last week, there was a collective sense
> of relief as the nightly toll ... rapidly diminished.
Is this even true?
This is the official French spin, after all.
LOL...so the French are content to have just a few hundred cars torched per night and fewer schools, nurseries and businesses burned to the ground.
With the imposition of an unprecedented state of emergency authorising local authorities to slap curfews on unruly young people, hopes grew that the untamed youth of the suburbs would quietly return to their housing estates.
Classic burying one's head in the sand there France! Just hope the problem goes away...do ya think it'll stay away?
Many commentators on French television and the major newspapers whined about the gross exaggerations of the riots in the foreign media.
What gross exaggerations...the French have been providing torched car counts, there are muslim youths rioting in numerous French cities...where's the false part of the picture?
"This is not Chechnya," one angry resident of Clichy-sous-Bois, the isolated Paris immigrant suburb where the rioting began two weeks ago, angrily told The Australian at a memorial rally for the town's gym, burned down the evening before by a gleeful mob of pyromaniacs.
Of course it's not Chechnya...err...there are Russians in Chechnya and French in Clichy-sous-Bois...otherwise there is little difference.
Well, it's difficult to imagine a more deserving country. OTOH, if it would serve to deflate their "frenchity" so that they become less full of it - why, then it would be highly beneficial.
bump
(They are a proud people who are more accustomed to being being admired for their country's world-class cuisine, intellectual heritage and enviable lifestyle.)
Does anyone here admire the French for their intellectual heritage (socialism, the guillotine, the terror of the French Revolution) or envy their lifestyle (laziness, 50% are government jobs, frequent strikes, 10K neglected elderly cooked during one hot summer)?
Perhaps they should not be so anxious to criticize others, then.
What goes around comes around.
Or ice a few mousse.
I LOVE your tagline!
Via Belmont Club:
French Journalist: "Politics in France is heading to the right and I don’t want rightwing politicians back in second, or even first place because we showed burning cars on television," Jean-Claude Dassier, the director general of the rolling news service TCI, says. ... Hence Dassier’s channel, which is owned by the private broadcaster TF1, has decided not to show footage of burning cars. Dassier also criticised the “excessive” coverage of the riots by international (read: Anglo-Saxon) news networks. ... Early this week the public television station France 3 had already stopped broadcasting the daily number of torched cars, while other TV stations followed suit. "Do we send teams of journalists because cars are burning, or are the cars burning because we sent teams of journalists?"
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I'll have whatever the French are smoking.
Ooh la la!!!
They WISH to be the object of such envy.
...Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy
WOW......the reaction from Mon. Jean-Claude Dassier is unbelievable. More appeasement from the socialist French public TV.
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