[day10]

Just heard this on Rush so I looked up an article. Complete lunacy.

Forgive if duplicate, search came up with nothing

[Question_Assumptions]

Feminists should cheer. I can't imagine a more sexist society than one where there is only room for one woman whose defining feature (and name) is linked simply to being female.

[8mmMauser]

When I was in France, the locals used the term derisively as reference to UN troops. Blue beret and helmets earned the title, Smurf.

[Reaganesque]

Here's a report from a German news outfit that contains the video: Click here.

[Moose4]

Jeez, that's lame. An AIRSTRIKE? C'mon. Where's the ineffective peacekeepers standing there in their blue helmets while the enemy pillages the women and rapes the sheep?

}:-)4

[Nowhere Man]

Dang, there goes my Matchbox Car Air Force again! B-)

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

NewsMax.com: "UNICEF BOMBS SMURF VILLAGE" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, in an anti-war fit, recently scared children in Belgium. Many went to bed crying and screaming after the broadcast of an "animated TV special" that featured the bombing of Smurf Village, home to the kid-friendly blue cartoon characters popular in the 1980s.") (October 10, 2005)

WorldNetDaily.com: "U.N. 'EXPLODES' AMERICAN KIDS Broadcasters Not Showing Graphic Ad Depicting Soccer Children Blown Apart" (March 6, 2005) (Read More...)

[TheForceOfOne]

Smurf fans, meanwhile, took the attack in stride. On one Web site, a fan blamed the Smurf-hating sorcerer Gargamel for the airstrike and suggested sending in a mission to search for weapons of mass smurfstruction.

http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/29314.htm

[Freedom_Fighter_2001]

I am all for Smurf parodies, even those of an adult nature.

I am troubled, however, of the use of a children's cartoon in this manner by UNICEF. They are taking something nice and light, created for children's enjoyment, ostensibly innocent and are corrupting it.

Should I expect better from the UN, who brought you the blue-helmeted kiddie rapers of Africa?

[SlowBoat407]

Of course, the terrorists were hiding behind innocent Smurf women and children, with their Smurffire missles and SMIRV nuclear warheads, planning to carry out Smurfaggedon.