Bash France? Non monsieur! I'm bashing you!
James Taranto and crew over at Best of the Web Today note this rather entertaining AFP piece:
What's this about a "racist undertone"? Why, I too, am astonished at this intolerable insult to the magnificent race poulet!
Damn that landscape! I specifically instructed the gardener NOT to plant any pernicious landscaping. Why, just the other day I spotted my racist, franco-phobe neighbor viciously pruning my granache trelis, grown from cuttings de Languedoc-Roussillon region. The insensitive bastard!
That, sir, would be the very definition of the pot calling the kettle black. Monsieur Marc Saint-Aubin du Cormier? I tremble with shame and chastisement at the very thought of your un-named website "monitoring my sentiment."
Ahhh France... such an excitable yet strangely non-threatening culture, isn't it?
French-bashing alive and well in America
WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (AFP) - Two years after relations between the US and France soured over the Iraq war, French-bashing in America appears alive and well in light of a recent ad campaign by a fast-food chain linking France and cowardice.
The ad by the Subway chain touted a cordon bleu chicken sandwich with the words "France and chicken, somehow it just goes together". A photo of a chicken dressed like Napoleon accompanied the advertisement.
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.
What's this about a "racist undertone"? Why, I too, am astonished at this intolerable insult to the magnificent race poulet!
[...]"I think (French-bashing) is worse now than it was two years ago because, although it's not as relentless as it was, it has become a lot more accepted and part of the landscape," he added.
Damn that landscape! I specifically instructed the gardener NOT to plant any pernicious landscaping. Why, just the other day I spotted my racist, franco-phobe neighbor viciously pruning my granache trelis, grown from cuttings de Languedoc-Roussillon region. The insensitive bastard!
Marc Saint-Aubin du Cormier, another French native who created a website to monitor anti-French sentiment in the United States and Canada, agrees.
"There is a kind of anti-French streak in the background of the culture of America," he told AFP.
That, sir, would be the very definition of the pot calling the kettle black. Monsieur Marc Saint-Aubin du Cormier? I tremble with shame and chastisement at the very thought of your un-named website "monitoring my sentiment."
Ahhh France... such an excitable yet strangely non-threatening culture, isn't it?