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2004-03-12 Europe

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Posted by sludj 2004-03-12 1:16:23 PM|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 More like, "Fuck France".

Posted by Raj 2004-3-12 1:45:52 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2004-3-12 1:45:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 "Iâve met foreign leaders, who canât go out and say this publicly," he told a Hollywood, Fla., fundraiser, "but boy they look at you and say, âYou gotta win this one, you gotta beat this guy.â "

I didn't know Kerry visited Iran, North Korea, and Osama's spiderhole........

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-3-12 2:13:36 PM|| 2004-3-12 2:13:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 This is good stuff. But why is it that every time I read Krauthammer, I get this mental picture of a guy in a Wehrmacht uniform swinging a giant mallet?

Posted by Tibor 2004-3-12 2:32:49 PM|| 2004-3-12 2:32:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 What do you do when you find you're in a hole?
Stop digging!

There must be something present (or lacking) in the water in some rather specific areas of the planet. This condition is evidenced by a demonstrably lower IQ and the obviously oblivious utterances which issue forth regularly. You see this anomalous behavior consistently embraced in Paris, Teheran, Pyongyang, ZimBob, Boston, and other intelligence backwaters. Amazing. Perhaps it's time to alert the AMA and the CDC to investigate and determine the root causes and duration of the effects.

Posted by .com 2004-3-12 2:37:12 PM|| 2004-3-12 2:37:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 #3,

Tibor, it's your mental picture. Why don't you tell us?

Posted by Daniel King 2004-3-12 2:38:47 PM|| 2004-3-12 2:38:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 You know, Jean-Marie Colombani can kiss my big fat AMERICAN ass Who the fuck does she thinkk she is, moraliing at us, you French fuck bitch.

Of ALL the blessings I count every day, first is that I was born in the good ol' USA, and will die a proud Amercian.

Shell never actually hear it (at least not from my individual little diatribe, anyway), but it feels good saying it, that she can take her holier-than-thou puking, French-superiority-complex blathering, and loser-on-the-world-stage failing, and fuck herself with it.

Oh yes. It did feel good saying it:)

Posted by Hyper 2004-3-12 2:46:03 PM|| 2004-3-12 2:46:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 .com - I drink bottled water, thanks.

And beer. Lots of beer...

Posted by Raj 2004-3-12 3:10:27 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2004-3-12 3:10:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, actually Jean Marie Colombani is a man. A man in a very special position. His paper "Le Monde" is the most influential in France, in fact politician careers have been made and unmade by Le Monde. This paper was created at Liberation and accumulated an enormous credibility capital for his independence and relative impartiality during two first directors Beuve-Mery and Fauvet. But then it fell into the hands of Colombani. Colombani has a past of trotskism and he has been using Le Monde's credibility capital to further his ends both political and commercial.

Le Monde is the reference paper like the NYT and like the NYT is no longer deserves to be. But TV news are made by people who have Le Monde on their knees while writing what will be reported in the evening news. Politicians fear it and Le Monde has managed to have a grip on the litterary world through a network of critics and intellectuals.

Le Monde is key in the anti-american brainwashing the French people are daily subject since as I said it is the reference paper, the one gfollowed by other media and the one who unmades careers.

Posted by JFM 2004-3-12 5:02:16 PM|| 2004-3-12 5:02:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 If Jean Marie is a man, why does he write like a girl?

Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-3-12 5:06:40 PM|| 2004-3-12 5:06:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Daniel King -- Uh, it was a joke. Kraut/Wehrmacht guy + Hammer/mallet.

Mr. D -- Very nice.

Posted by Tibor 2004-3-12 5:17:54 PM|| 2004-3-12 5:17:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 JFM - Thx! - perspective is the greatest gift! You rock, brother! :-)

Posted by .com 2004-3-12 5:21:26 PM|| 2004-3-12 5:21:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 JFM, I have made similar observations about Amnesty Internation as yours on Le Monde. There is a discerneable pattern here. Find an organization or institution with a stock of political capital or goodwill, then take it over and then use it (the capital) up to further some partisan objective generally contrary to the objectives of those who built up the organization.

Posted by Phil B 2004-3-12 7:23:14 PM|| 2004-3-12 7:23:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Phil,

You have just described Gigolo Kerry marrying into the Heinz fortune.

Posted by ed 2004-3-13 7:40:19 AM|| 2004-3-13 7:40:19 AM|| Front Page Top

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