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French rail at foreign 'beat-up' (The French are unhappy about intl. ridicule)
The Australian ^
| November 14, 2005
| Emma-Kate Symons
Posted on 11/13/2005 8:35:36 AM PST by indcons
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To: indcons
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.
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posted on
11/13/2005 9:00:33 AM PST
by
righttackle44
(The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan
The muslims want Sarkozy to be dismissed from his job.
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posted on
11/13/2005 9:01:25 AM PST
by
indcons
("Not all muslims are terrorists; however, all terrorists today are muslims." - George Fernandez)
To: indcons
I guess they can tolerate a few hundred cars burned up.
Now...how about that tourist money, eh ?
To: indcons
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posted on
11/13/2005 9:02:55 AM PST
by
jimbo123
To: indcons
Le French are humiliated by their own ineptness and inactivity in the face of civil unrest!?
Merde!!
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posted on
11/13/2005 9:03:15 AM PST
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: jimbo123
Excellent cartoons, especially the second one....LOL
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posted on
11/13/2005 9:13:32 AM PST
by
indcons
("Not all muslims are terrorists; however, all terrorists today are muslims." - George Fernandez)
To: Fenris6
"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.
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posted on
11/13/2005 9:14:38 AM PST
by
paudio
(Four More Years..... Let's Use Them Wisely...)
To: highlander_UW
the French are content to have just a few hundred cars torched per night Peugeot and Renault are deeply saddened...
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posted on
11/13/2005 9:19:54 AM PST
by
CommandoFrank
(Peer into the depths of hell and there you will find the face of Islam...)
To: indcons
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.
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posted on
11/13/2005 9:20:38 AM PST
by
kingu
(Draft Fmr Senator Fred Thompson for '08.)
To: indcons
They had a memorial rally for the town's gym.
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posted on
11/13/2005 9:34:25 AM PST
by
andyk
(Fear my strategery of misunderestimation.)
To: Fenris6
French Journalist: "Politics in France is heading to the right and I dont want rightwing politicians back in second, or even first place because we showed burning cars on television,"
...right winger
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posted on
11/13/2005 9:35:08 AM PST
by
Donald Rumsfeld Fan
("Memos on Bush Are Fake but Accurate". NYTimes)
To: Semper Paratus
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posted on
11/13/2005 9:39:16 AM PST
by
Wil H
To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan
Also a Corsican - not French.
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posted on
11/13/2005 9:40:06 AM PST
by
Fenris6
(3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
To: Fenris6
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!!
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posted on
11/13/2005 9:42:12 AM PST
by
indcons
("Not all muslims are terrorists; however, all terrorists today are muslims." - George Fernandez)
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To: indcons
I like this Sarkozy guy - based on what little I know about him.
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posted on
11/13/2005 9:57:59 AM PST
by
PatriotGirl827
(There are no short cuts to any place worth going.)
To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan
The Italian who brought France its only period of glory in its entire history.
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posted on
11/13/2005 10:02:06 AM PST
by
jveritas
(The Axis of Defeatism: Left wing liberals, Buchananites, and third party voters.)
Comment #38 Removed by Moderator
To: PatriotGirl827; Tintin chez les soviets
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).
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posted on
11/13/2005 10:06:24 AM PST
by
indcons
("Not all muslims are terrorists; however, all terrorists today are muslims." - George Fernandez)
To: indcons
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
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posted on
11/13/2005 10:12:21 AM PST
by
kcvl
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