Posted on 01/08/2005 9:00:31 PM PST by quidnunc
On December 22, in an evening sleet storm at Villacoublay air base west of Paris, two French journalists, Georges Malbrunot of Le Figaro and Christian Chesnot of Radio France Internationale, were finally reunited with their families after spending 124 days as kidnapped hostages of an Iraqi jihadist group. Chesnot seemed especially shaken by the experience, during which at least three other people held hostage with him were beheaded. Chesnot said very little to the army of attending reporters, and he's had very little to say in public ever since.
Georges Malbrunot, on the other hand, has proved himself quite the chatterbox.
On the Villacoublay tarmac, for example, Malbrunot explained how the two men had sustained themselves through four straight months of mortal fear by remaining "humble." And "Cartesian." And ostentatiously French. During their very first interrogation, Malbrunot remembered, he and Chesnot "immediately played the 'French journalist card,' while insisting on the fact that France is against the war." Then, "we told them that we'd understood them to be a 'resistance' from the moment there was an illegal occupation" of Iraq. Or, put another way, "we gave them pledges to demonstrate that we weren't pro-American." It was only privately, "to myself," that Malbrunot found himself fondly daydreaming about the United States Marines: "If only an American patrol would come through, take out this lovely bunch, and set us free."
Not French enough for you? Okay, then have a look at the following passage from an exclusive interview Malbrunot has now granted Nidra Poller in the January 3 edition of the New York Sun:
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I'd play the French Journalist card too.
Bahahahaha! I like this weekly Standard.
That's stupendous. That means you can skip the whole liberal@20, conservative@40 brain-dead, heart-dead hyperbole.
You rock and welcome aboard, prov.!
It is very simple, first you colaborate with the Germans and pray the Americans will come. You can support both sides that way. It rubs off.
Oh, and 'prov' = 'provacateur', just so ya know :)~!
I might play the card, too, if I thought it would keep me from getting killed, but I wouldn't come back after being released and still spout such crap.
Provocateur?
Texans can speak French?
We can spell 'jambalaya', to a one!
I think the French and Germans forget that their heads come off just as easily as American heads. I never thought I'd hear or read about a Frenchman daydreaming about a U.S. Marine coming to rescue him. Imagine that, a Frenchman hoping the U.S. Military would save his ass. Kinda reminds of World Wars I and II.
We don't call them cheese eating surrender monkey for nothing. While he privately wishes for American help, what a puke.
To be honest, most Texans skip right over the article (when French) and move right on to socializing.
LOL!
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