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French hotel chain drops flags
CNN ^ | 3-13-03 | Parija Bhatnagar

Posted on 03/13/2003 9:34:36 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic

Edited on 04/29/2004 2:02:14 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - French-owned Sofitel takes precautionary measures in U.S. due to anti-French.

French flags no longer are flying high and proud outside the Sofitel Hotel in midtown Manhattan. The French-owned hotel chain replaced them with the Stars and Stripes as a peace offering to its American guests.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: business; france; sofitel; un; war
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Even the hotels surrender easily!
1 posted on 03/13/2003 9:34:36 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic
That should say "anti-French sentiment" in the first line.
2 posted on 03/13/2003 9:35:17 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Ya beat me to it!!
3 posted on 03/13/2003 9:37:20 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I will defend to your death my right to say it.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
LOL!

Security concerns.....they better be focused on occupancy concerns.

I understand "Accord" hotels are also French. Is that true? (Red Roof, Motel 6, etc.)
4 posted on 03/13/2003 9:38:15 AM PST by xzins (Babylon, you have been weighed in the balance and been found wanting!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
French flags no longer are flying high and proud outside the Sofitel Hotel in midtown Manhattan. The French-owned hotel chain replaced them with the Stars and Stripes as a peace offering to its American guests solid white ones that they feel better represent the attitudes of the French.

fixed it for them...

5 posted on 03/13/2003 9:38:30 AM PST by danneskjold
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To: afraidfortherepublic
French flags no longer are flying high and proud outside the Sofitel Hotel in midtown Manhattan

And they immediately raised the White Flag.

6 posted on 03/13/2003 9:38:36 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I will defend to your death my right to say it.)
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To: xzins
Yes, that is true. I heard it from Bill O'Reilly on "The Factor." He named those two specifically.
7 posted on 03/13/2003 9:41:52 AM PST by jim35
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To: Puppage
http://www.metrospy.com/index.htm

The above URL has listing of many
french products and companies in
America.
8 posted on 03/13/2003 9:42:58 AM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (chIRAQ & sadDAM are bedfellows & clinton is a raping traitor!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
What do you call it when you lower your country's flag and raise the flag of your "enemy"?

What? Say it louder! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!
9 posted on 03/13/2003 9:44:41 AM PST by Illbay (Don't believe every tagline you read - including this one)
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To: xzins
Yep. Tom Bodette works for the Froggies. . .
10 posted on 03/13/2003 9:45:58 AM PST by Salgak (don't mind me: the orbital mind control lasers are making me write this. . .)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Americans aren't practicing terrorism at the moment, so I doubt that they have any real security concerns. But they do have to worry about room occupancy. I wouldn't even consider staying in a French hotel or motel now, or eat in a French restaurant, or fly Air France. And of course I wouldn't have bought a Pugeot on a bet, even before this happened.

I laid in four cases of French wine a month or two before this situation blew up, so I don't have to worry yet whether or not to give that up. I'm not it would be better to support Gray Davis by buying Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
11 posted on 03/13/2003 9:46:11 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Illbay
What? Say it louder! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!

Surrender!

12 posted on 03/13/2003 9:46:42 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Paul Charoy said the company last week decided to remove the French flags in front of all eight of its hotels in the U.S. as a "precautionary" measure ........................

I hope that is an attempt to soften FALLING BOOKINGS.
I know not patronizing French products is strictly an emotional reaction to the Frogs attitudes in the UN, BUT IT FEELS GOOD. As silly as it is, it is time to show the French how the unwelcome American feels about their VOTE and lobbying other nations against us. Love me you got to love my money.
13 posted on 03/13/2003 9:46:52 AM PST by YOMO
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To: Salgak
How come "BoDette" suddenly sounds so sissy prissy?

MotelFrogs.....we'll leave the white flags on.
14 posted on 03/13/2003 9:48:05 AM PST by xzins (Babylon, you have been weighed in the balance and been found wanting!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
What's the French for "Uncle"?
15 posted on 03/13/2003 9:48:09 AM PST by Illbay (Don't believe every tagline you read - including this one)
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To: Cicero
I'm not it would be better to support Gray Davis by buying Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon.

Washington State produces some fine wines -- and Texas has a budding wine industry too. When I could drink wine (I'm allergic to the sulphites in it now) I was partial to Romanian and Australian wines too.

16 posted on 03/13/2003 9:48:59 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic (3rd generation native Californian)
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To: Illbay
What's the French for "Uncle"?

M'oncle?

17 posted on 03/13/2003 9:50:12 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic (3rd generation native Californian)
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To: Illbay
What's the French for "Uncle"?

M'oncle?

18 posted on 03/13/2003 9:50:13 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic (3rd generation native Californian)
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To: danneskjold
fixed it for them...

LOL

19 posted on 03/13/2003 9:51:23 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

20 posted on 03/13/2003 9:53:40 AM PST by steve-b
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