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It's an epidemic of caricature and vilification, and the slurs are, for the most part, neither subtle nor gentle. As one French critic noted recently, "Hollywood hasn't engaged in this kind of wholesale nationality-bashing since Pearl Harbor." What's going on? It's a debatable issue, but it doesn't take a sociology degree to see that it mostly stems from two factors: American anger over the lack of French support for the Iraq invasion, and the absence of politically correct movie villains since the end of the Cold War. Since 2003, a wave of anti-French sentiment in America has resulted in boycotts...

Krugman reaches for a silver lining among the shards of France’s failing economy. According to Paul Krugman's New York Times column Friday, "there's a lot to be said for the French choice" — the choice to live in a decaying welfare state with no growth, no jobs, and no future, but plenty of free time on your hands. It's not so bad in France, claims America's most dangerous liberal pundit. It's a "highly productive" nation, he says. Oh yeah? Its average real GDP growth since 1991 has been 1.8% per year, compared to 3.1% for the United States. Its GDP...

They're back! Just when you thought it was safe to start calling "freedom fries" French fries once more, the anti-Gallic thought police are back on the job, avidly pursuing those "cheese-eating surrender monkeys." The American right's recurrent infatuation with French bashing, quiescent for a time after the Iraq invasion, has returned with a vengeance. This time, it has an intellectual twist. In bookstores now are at least two accounts of our purportedly harmful interactions with France over the years, both serving to denigrate the historic French-American friendship. The titles tell it all. There is "The French Betrayal of America" by...

The republic's inglorious military history leaves it on the wrong side of debate about proper use of force, writes Gerard Henderson. Sunday marks the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings at Normandy in north-west France, which began the liberation of much of Western Europe from Nazi Germany rule. The US President, George Bush, and the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, will be present at the commemoration. The Prime Minister, John Howard, will have a minor role (about 3000 Australians were involved in the invasion of France, primarily as air crew). Naturally, France will be represented on June 6 by its...

FRENCH-BASHING TO BECOME AN OLYMPIC SPORT GENEVA -- At its annual meeting, the International Olympic Committee has decided to add French-Bashing to its roster of medal sports in both the Summer and Winter Games. "We thought it was about time," said Jesus de Manuel y Corazon, Chairman of the IOC and the 1968 European French-Bashing Champion. "Everbody hates those little lying, cowardly, collaborating, garlic-eating, never-bathing, nose-picking French bastards. It's time that French-Bashing was recognized for the truly international sport that it is -- one, I might add, that is much more popular than soccer." In Summer French-Bashing, the Basher runs...

<p>More than 100 Nashvillians turned out this afternoon to hit a French car with a sledgehammer in support of America's troops and to protest French anti-American sentiments.</p> <p>The ''Bash A Peugeot For Peace'' event at the Beaman Automotive Group on Broadway was sponsored by WWTN radio talk-show host Steve Gill. All proceeds are going to charities that send supplies to troops overseas and their families, who have remained at home.</p>

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A neo-Nazi fired a rifle at French president Jacques Chirac over the weekend. In what many observers called a surprising turn of events, the French politician did not respond to the gunfire by giving the young man the keys to the city and raising a neo-Nazi flag up the Eiffel Tower.This is just one sign of how times have changed. Oh, I don't mean that the cheese-eating surrender monkeys are, all of a sudden, the sort of hamburger-eating heroes who leap recklessly into the fray with no regard for their personal safety. For all I know, saying gesundheit —...