[lawgirl]

I agree with Dennis Miller, as told to Jay Leno--to the French: "you are dead to me!" LOL!

[Wild Thing]

NO,it is never enough bashing of the French!
I won't stop!

Wild Thing

[discostu]

I didn't wait for the Iraq war thing to start bashing France, I'm not gonna stop because it's basically over. France is an annoying country filled with annoying people and stinky cheese, whether or not we're invading Iraq doesn't change that.

[Lancey Howard]

I agree with this.
I will no longer bash the cheese-eating surrender monkeys.
I will simply continue to ignore them and avoid their imports.

[Lancey Howard]

By the way, if it is published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, then it has anti-America, anti-capitalist fingerprints all over it. The Inky has a stench that is impossible to miss.

I really wish that paper would hurry up and die.

[Lancey Howard]

[Drango]

~snif...a bunch of mean ol' FReepers pickin' on the frogs.

[Scenic Sounds]

A ping from someone who believes that the bitchin' and moanin' about the French should never end. ;-)

[timestax]

France sucks

[tet68]

No, it's not time.
Has America Bashing stopped?
The French, and others like them, haven't SEEN bashing as we know how to do it............yet.

[amused]

No...now IS the time to bash the French and is more likely justified at this point.

Chirac admits helping Serbian general avoid extradition for war crimes and suddenly Chirac does not like the ICC.

The ELF trial has finished up showing such craven corruption in Africa by French state owned oil that it makes CIA adventures abroad seem like tiddly winks.

[CoastWatcher]

This is exactly what the French claimed would happen: The self absorbed Americans will throw a tantrum for a few months or until something else distracts their ADD infected minds. Then everything will go back the way it was until the next time we French take their ball away. Well not this time. There is a new sheriff in town whose not afraid to call a toad a toad; and turn a blind eye to double dealing psuedo-friends. This is what scares them; everything will NOT go back to the way it was. They are slowly being forced to decide whether they are with us or against us; and the choice is going to cost them dearly.

[CoastWatcher]

This is exactly what the French claimed would happen: The self absorbed Americans will throw a tantrum for a few months or until something else distracts their ADD infected minds. Then everything will go back the way it was until the next time we French take their ball away. Well not this time. There is a new sheriff in town whose not afraid to call a toad a toad; and turn a blind eye to double dealing psuedo-friends. This is what scares them; everything will NOT go back to the way it was. They are slowly being forced to decide whether they are with us or against us; and the choice is going to cost them dearly.

[MrsEmmaPeel]

It's been fun, but isn't it time to stop bashing the French?

No.

[GmbyMan]

But George W. Bush drives her nuts. And it's probably his style more than his politics. A Dick Cheney who pushes an individualistic, every-man-for-himself philosophy in a frank manner may be disagreed with but not hated. The spectacle of Bush alternating between tax cuts for the rich and displays of religious piety, however, sends my friend over the deep end. Americans, for their part, have no obligation to admire French President Jacques Chirac (also a former exchange student in the United States). The cagey old pol has undoubtedly exploited anti-American feelings in France, also a latent force, to distract attention from his various scandals at home. For example, a now deceased member of his Gaullist Party describes on tape how he handed over $720,000 in cash to a Chirac aide as the boss, then mayor of Paris, looked on. Were it not for a court ruling that a sitting president cannot be dragged before a judge, Chirac might be behind bars today

Does anyone else have a hard time with this moral equilivancy? Just a note to Miss (Ms.??) Harrop, taking bribes in your office is illegal. Breaking the law is not the same thing as having a different tax policy or a faith in Jesus!!!!!

Further, I wanted to point out that while what Chirac did here was despicable, it isn't the reason why Americans don't like him. We don't like him because at a time when we NEEDED to act in our own self interest, France did everything they could to stop us... including giving aid and comfort to our enemies. I could care less about local French politics, it's the geo political stuff that bugs me!

[wjcsux]

I won't buy anything that comes from France. Had to stay away from BFG and Uniroyal tires. They are owned by Michelin.

[Cinnamon Girl]

SHAME ON YOU, FROMA. France is horribly anti-semitic and the attacks on Jews and Jewish buildings have been increasing. Aren't you paying attention?

[Jeff Gordon]

It is nice to see articles such as this pop up from time to time. They serve to remind us all that we are avoiding anything French and why.

[Steve0113]

The 14th commemorates the destruction in 1789 of the Bastille...

Ignorance on parade. The Bastille wasn't destroyed. A mob stormed it and freed a handful of prisoners. That's all.

[Jay D. Dyson]

Like a chronic ailment, Francophobia flares now and then

Typical Leftist tripe. When one is justifiably revulsed by the conduct of a given group, their angst is poo-poo'd as *-phobia.

They honestly should look at what phobia really means. It is derived from the Greek word phobos, meaning fear.

Anyone with a lick of sense knows nobody has any cause to fear the French (unless we're talking about hideously skanky body odor)...

Fear the French? Nope. Detest them with every fiber of my being for the scum they are? You betcha.

-Jay