We French are pathetic losers, says ad chief

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 7/31/05 | Kim Willsher

[martin_fierro]

We French are pathetic losers, says ad chief

We Americans quite agree, says Marty Fierro.

[CzarNicky]

It's time we opened our eyes wide, took an icy shower and looked reality in the face: we are in decline, going down a slippery slope.

Never happen

[PokeyJoe]

Yeah, that was rather non-Eurocentric of him to say.

[tet68]

"Is there a politician capable of overcoming their own ambitions in the cause of a certain idea of France?"

Osama Bin Laden?

[BulletBobCo]

[DB]

Wow, a French writer where it isn't America's fault...

[monkapotamus]

[johniegrad]

This guy is an idiot. Losing the Olympics is the least of their problems. He is as stupid as the rest of the government. The only reason the Olympics mattered to them is because of the high profile, international publicity aspect. The French problems run much deeper than anything that could be resurrected by some positive PR generated by the Olympics.

[HangThemHigh]

"We French are pathetic losers, says ad chief"

And it's not like they haven't had any practice.

[CWOJackson]

Damn, even the French don't like the French.

[Archon of the East]

There are a few Frenchmen that have understood what Liberty American style means and values it more than the false liberty of the French enlightenment.

[finnman69]

Maurice Lévy is my new hero.

France hit rock bpttom when in an attempt to boost French Tourism it hired pedophile Wood Allen to do promo spots 'Fall in love again"

[Chode]

tant piss...

[John Lenin]

The reason they lost the Olympics is because the IOC realizes there will be a lot of social unrest in France coming up in the next few years. Muslims are breeding like rabbits and the local French women can't abort babies fast enough. Abortion and socialism is a recipe for disaster.

[eddie willers]

Mr Lévy concluded that it would take a brave person to introduce the necessary changes, someone who would put his country first

Bush will be lookin for work in 2009. :o)

PS....Take THAT, Krugman!

[mewzilla]

[HawaiianGecko]

 

 

	[He said that unemployment, at more than 10 per cent, was a "cancer that gnawed at our society", complaining that companies had lost their competitiveness and that job creation had broken down. ] This is in direct contradiction to yesterday's editorial by Paul Krugman in the New York Times, where he says the 10% unemployment and wussie 35 hour work are by design and a good thing.  It's nice to see a real Frenchman (didn't know any still exist) slap Krugman across the face the very next day. For a reading of Krugman (If you can stand it) .... http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/29/opinion/29krugman.html?

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[He said that unemployment, at more than 10 per cent, was a "cancer that gnawed at our society", complaining that companies had lost their competitiveness and that job creation had broken down. ]

This is in direct contradiction to yesterday's editorial by Paul Krugman in the New York Times, where he says the 10% unemployment and wussie 35 hour work are by design and a good thing.  It's nice to see a real Frenchman (didn't know any still exist) slap Krugman across the face the very next day.

For a reading of Krugman (If you can stand it) .... http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/29/opinion/29krugman.html?
 

[RedRover]

Boy, Krugman has the gift of timing, doesn't he? With luck, the Times with get an Op-Ed from this froggy and then give Kruggie a much-deserved heave-ho.