French rail at foreign 'beat-up' (The French are unhappy about intl. ridicule)

The Australian ^ | November 14, 2005 | Emma-Kate Symons

[righttackle44]

Well let me add to their reason for railing.

The entire French national leadership acts [or doesn't act] like the local and state leadership of Louisiana before, during and after Katrina.

The whole country looks like a Pepe LePew cartoon.

[indcons]

The muslims want Sarkozy to be dismissed from his job.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I guess they can tolerate a few hundred cars burned up.
Now...how about that tourist money, eh ?

[jimbo123]

[DustyMoment]

Le French are humiliated by their own ineptness and inactivity in the face of civil unrest!?

Merde!!

[indcons]

Excellent cartoons, especially the second one....LOL

[paudio]

"Do we send teams of journalists because cars are burning, or are the cars burning because we sent teams of journalists?"

Keep asking the question... soon enough you'll find the cars of the journalists are burning.

[CommandoFrank]

the French are content to have just a few hundred cars torched per night

Peugeot and Renault are deeply saddened...

[kingu]

Pick a riot in the United States. Virtually every single one not only made the networks in France, but was the highlight for days to come, with detailed video every step of the way. Even days after the Rodney King Riots in Los Angeles, the French television stations were running the story of the riot with 'new details', implying that this was still going on.

Miami riots? To the top of the news broadcast.

The response in the United States to the French riots has been - there are riots? The coverage is so minimal that most people don't even know that it is not just in one city (if they know that much.)

Imagine the field day France would have had with riots across the United States. They'd show hours upon hours of video footage of that. But if the total exposure of the French riots on network news exceeds fifteen minutes in the last two weeks, I'd be shocked.

The questions that French journalists should be asking right now is not how to minimalize the coverage - it is already minimal. What they should be asking is 'Why doesn't anyone care?' Oh, sure, they care in Denmark who is having the same problem, but most of Europe is mum on it as well.

Riots in fifty towns affecting millions of people and it gets far less coverage than the Ditch (sounds like hitch.) If the French are supposedly the center of the world's culture, a cultural war in that country should be full coverage, everywhere. It isn't. And France should be deeply worried about that.

[andyk]

They had a memorial rally for the town's gym.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

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,"

...right winger

[Wil H]

Let them eat cake..

[Fenris6]

Also a Corsican - not French.

[indcons]

The greatest French warrior - a 16-year old girl
The greatest French here - a Corsican
The most important French holiday - the sacking of an empty prison by thousands of unruly cheese monkeys

Enough said!!

[PatriotGirl827]

I like this Sarkozy guy - based on what little I know about him.

[jveritas]

The Italian who brought France its only period of glory in its entire history.

[indcons]

I am not so sure now

FReeper Tintin chez les soviets who is from France doesn't think too highly of Sarkozy. Looks like the media was hyping this guy as usual (based on Tintin's clarification).

[kcvl]

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.

I'm just green with envy. /sarcasm