French bashing alive and well in parts of America

Daily Times ^ | October 09, 2005

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Euroweenie

[metesky]

[Chode]

naaaaaaww...

[LonePalm]

Ok but you might give me credit at the end of the tagline.

I don't insist but it would be nice to get credit.

About a month ago I got through to Mark Levin when he was doing "Maurice the Liberal." After a "Bon jour Maurice, come va tu?" I told him I had a French phrase for him that I would translate for his non-French speaking listerners. I then gave him this tag line. I got a huge laugh and a take care my friend.

Il n'y a pas d'honte être français. Il y a seulement l'honte dans rester de français.
(There is no shame in being French. There is only shame in staying French.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[DeFault User]

A photo of a chicken dressed like Napoleon accompanied the advertisement.

Seems to me that the French expatriates overreacted here. Although they associate chickens with cowards and being French, I don't think anyone would describe Napoleon as a coward (he was a lot of things, but not a coward).

More a case of the guilty dogs yelping the loudest.

[funkywbr]

I don't even mind snobs too much but what I really hate are COWARDS!

[Junior]

Pauvre petite bébé

[Serb5150]

Aha, that's your signature block... Sorry, I thought that might have been lifted from someplace in the original article.

Done.

[southernnorthcarolina]

“I am not very optimistic,” Chazelle said. “I think French bashing is here to stay.”

I, on the other hand, am optimistic, for the same reason.

[aculeus]

Une explanation ...

French buy into 9/11 conspiracy

PARIS, France (CNN) -- Throughout the spring, and into this summer, a leading bestseller in France has not been some great work of French literature but a $17-dollar paperback called the "Horrifying Fraud."

The book casts doubt on the official version of the events of September 11, substituting an elaborate conspiracy concocted by America's military-industrial complex in order to increase U.S. military budgets.

It has sold more than 200,000 copies here -- a huge success in French terms --attracting interest from readers like Eduard Chabanon and Naoufal Lahlou who are sceptical about much of what they are learn from the news.

Lahlou said: "There is always doubt. I haven't seen any proof that shows that man walked on the moon."

[Bernard Marx]

What's the big deal? The French have hated and discriminated against Americans for at least a generation and no one ever made that a big issue. My revenge? Spend my American dollars at home.

[JohnnyZ]

“Saying that the French are dirty or cowards is a little bit like saying the sky is blue. Nobody is going to contest it,”

Quote of the Day

[synbad600]

If you need another reason to hate France, read:

Vile France: Fear, Duplicity, Cowardice and Cheese
by Denis Boyles

Great book.

[Solamente]

[Wonder Warthog]

"Subway ran the ads in about 10 US states for nearly a month and pulled them in September following an outcry by members of the French expatriate community and other customers offended by the racist undertone."

And the French and their defenders thus prove themselves not only cowardly, but stupid, to boot. It "might" be offensive (to the French, if no one else), but it certainly isn't "racist".

[kevinm13]

Another good reason to support Subway.

France, chickens and surrender monkeys go together so well.

[ishabibble]

Thank you. Thank you. I posted about this last week, without providing links.

I haven't eaten at a Subway since that story broke, which means that I have to go over 6 miles, and pass two Subway stores, to get to the little pizza joint owned by the Greek guy who hasn't had a day off in 19 yrs., but has a Ph.D son and a West Point grad son. I'm proud to do it.

[Bar-Face]

"The Frogs are a race?"

I caught that little jewell also.
Screw the Frogs. My family has had no love for the "Mother Country since the mid 17th century when they left due to the Huguenot persecution. Howsome ever that persecution did get us here, so I guess maybe something good did come out of another little shameful episode in Frog history.