French Bashing is Back

1. Réponse à M Bourguilleau :  “Chercher les racines du French Bashing dans l’histoire post-coloniale américaine peut sembler logique à un Français, mais c’est une erreur grossière.

   En fait, comme nous l’avons souvent remarqué sur http://www.Miquelon.org – la grande majorité des Américains connaissent assez mal l’histoire de leur propre pays. Si quelques chroniqueurs de droite la connaissent (ceux du NRO par exemple), la majorité des intervenants vivent dans un monde qui puise ses sources dans la culture radio-télévisuelle du pays. Vous avez bien fait de citer les Simpsons, mais ce ne sont de fait qu’un facteur mineur. C’est auprès des Jay Leno (Le Ruquier américain, et c’est méchant pour Ruquier) – les Howard Stern et tout un pan des écrivains de films, de télé-séries qu’il faut se retourner. Ces derniers qui se complaisent à écrire des blagues a tour de bras ne savent puiser que dans le facile, le récent. La guerre d’Irak leur a permis de ressasser la mémoire de la défaite de 1940. Français = pouilleux, capitulard, défaitiste, vichyste en son sein.

   L’autre moteur du French Bashing est bien évidemment le parti Républicain qui déteste le modèle social et politique français avec une véhémence sans égal. Si l’hyper-majorité des anti-Français politiques se trouvent dans leurs rangs, ce n’est pas une erreur ni un hasard. La droite, les Républicains, détestent l’idée d’un système de sécurité sociale à la Française. Donc, pour désarmer leurs rivaux politiques, les Démocrates progressistes, les Républicains ont détruit leur idole: la France. “

2. On a side note, Arnaud sent us an email during the height of the horrors in Japan. An American blogger, based in Japan wrote a piece suggesting French cowardice was at play when the Quai d’Orsay issued an advisory note asking French citizens to leave the Tokyo region as soon as possible.

3. It has not always been that way. Even after World War II, there were positive portrayals of Frenchmen in american pop culture, like Emile de Becque in South Pacific, Lebeau in Hogan’s Heroes, or Inspector Henri Barthélémy in French Connection II. It seems to have changed in the seventies, probably because Americans needed a scapegoat after their defeat in VietNam in 1975. Of course, it’s only a theory, but something tells me that if they did a remake of Hogan’s Heroes, Lebeau would become a Vichy spy trying to pin something wrong on Hogan.

4. “”Réponse à M Bourguilleau””

   Bonne réponse miquelon.
   Tu as entièrement raison. Mais quand je vois que la plupart des commentaires sur ce site donnent raisons aux French-bashers, c’est désespérant.
   Ignorance is bliss…

5. A quick scan through most news sites and various blogs and forum regarding the Libyian crisis will show a sharp increase in French-bashing.  It’s quite remarkable, given leading role France has taken in this affair.   What we have always suspected is really now true, anti-French sentiment in large segments of the American population has not only taken hold, but have become popular and part of the national conscience.  Historical revisionism plays a large part in this.  The anti-French hatred has no bounds. 

   If tomorrow, an Al-Qaida terrorist destroys Paris with a nuclear device, I predict the Conservatives/GOP members would immediately become card-carrying members of the official OBL glee/fan club.

6. La France sous les projecteurs – French Morning : Entre son leadership dans l’intervention libyenne et la déconfiture des élections cantonales, les journalistes américains ne ratent pas une occasion de décortiquer les hauts et les bas de la popularité de Nicolas Sarkozy. La sortie américaine de “Potiche” et le portrait de Claude Angeli du Canard Enchaîné dans le NY Times placent aussi la France sous les feux de la rampe.

7. France is the armpit of europe, hence why you have not been invaded in years. Noone wants to. A tourist bus from Luxembourg once tried to enter and a guy had a pair of toenail clippers and half your army surrendered.

8. Funny how you surrendered, and have not replied unless with a fake account. Must be in your genes, to give up. Why not post my comments you were responding to, typical french coward! for the whole conversation not just Pepe’ LeStinks comment follow me @ ElvisKnievil

9. I am so glad you allowed our banter to be posted. Why live in America if you are hated? Cause we are still better than France. Not true, then move back. You are the only people who could turn a great thing like Disneyland, a place everyone in the world wants to go, into an atrocity noone wants to visit. Do you salt snails to watch them die or taste better?

10. By the way I have been to your country a few times while in your former occupiers country. I would have let the allies take it back to. hy is your fighter named the mirage, cause during wars it isnt there. The only french to invade are the salemen. Chirac the hero in legal trouble? Sell nukes and weapons to Iraq, and we’re the bad guys. Your most famous general was Corsican? He built the Arc de Triumph, how’d that campaign end again? 

11. Miquelon incorrectly talked about Texas gaining independence from Mexico by surrenduring to the US. The difference between the battle of the Alamo, a small inrrelevant church and the entire country of France, is that the Texasn were outnumbered 20 to 1 and chose to fight on, not like the entire French population of which 1.5 million soldiers who went into captivity rather than fight. Americans fight, while the French talk. We do both better.

12. Hey look, it’s the ignorant racist  moron from tweeter.
    How you doing, brother ?

13. Michael Allen is one moronic douche.

14. I am surprised you know the word douche since it is a hygeine product and you French stay away from those. Have you been Americanized? Again people French is not a race so I am not a racist. French is a culture, based on Nationality that noone likes, so I’ma nationalist.

15. Look I know it may be hard for you to understand, it certainly is disturbing that while the US was at war with Japan and Germany and you were our backseat allies during WW II, we for someone dislike you more. Maybe its not us, its you. Take a long look in the mirror.

16. It’s obvious that Elvis doesn’t know anything about France or French culture.  He must be in junior high school.

17. I have been there a few times, and couldn’t wait to leave. There is a reason the French invented perfume, and it wasn’t because they smell like roses naturally. What the difference between bigfoot and a french woman, bigfoot is better groomed and doesn’t need as much perfume. 

18. Do you realize just  how predictable and boring you are …
    Is that really the best you can do?

    I’m disappoint.

19. il est complétement allumé cet Elvis, je suis hilare rien qu’a imaginer la fébrilité de ce guignol, lorsqu’il poste ses blagounettes a deux balles , vraiment un bel exemple du célèbre  bourin de base. Quelqu’un pourrait il me dire dans quelle animalerie je peux en acheter un?  Je voudrais le même dans mon salon, posé au dessus de la télé.

20. So boring that Pepe leStink blocked my @tweets. Guess he’s sad and dare I say it he “surrendered”? Oh, and for the record you guys were not the first to do anything about Libya. Remeber in 1986 when we wanted to bomb the same guy for being a terorist, and you said no? We bombed them like they Luftwaffe did you. Bombing people is what we do, running away is what your heroes like Degaulle do. Who was the Vichy government by the way history buff?

21. The difference between a bucket of shit and a frencmen is the bucket.

22. Vichy, hygiene, surrender. Yawn…

    We’re kind of  French-bashing experts here. We’ve seen it all.
    You’re been very average so far.

    On the other hand you just reinforce just about every negative stereotype people have about your country so you’re pretty useful in a way.

    But seriously can you try and be a little more original ? It’s no fun otherwise.

23. Elvis is just a boy with failing grades.  Un vrai con.

24. I guess this lack of vim and vigor, yawm is what you do. Hence the stereotype of a french soldier smoking a cigarette as Panzer storm his capital and his country is taken over. Yawn, have my women, I like boys better anyway? We are now MostWestern Germany, yawn, but I can still have champagne. French pride is a yawn.

25. Let me play the devil’s advocate Elvis and weigh in on this arguement. I live a stone’s throw from your country, which I have visited a couple of hundred times in my life and I have also visited France on a couple of occasions; my conclusion, I’ll take France any day of the week and twice on Sundays. I doubt that a bigoted redneck like yourself has ever left the U.S or even ventured too far from your trailer park. Don’t make assumptions about Frech hygiene because I can tell you that’s it’s way better than anything I’ve witnessed in the States. And by the way, I don’t appreciate you using the Elvis monicker because he had way too much class to have his name associated with you.

26. Ramjet is your name or what  you like to do to farm animals. If that stones throw perhaps the frozen tundra of wetsern france? I have ventured far from my trailer park ehhh. I have visited almost all 50 states, all over Europe which is beautiful except for the frog country, the middle east, balkans, and have very close friends from south america and australia. Yet everyone except the french or their incestuous cousins canadiens, hate the french. Google it, cause that like everything else awesome is American you snail eating stinky uptight person descended from anyone french. Let’s pretend it is 1940 and quit this shallow weakly planned defense. The Beligians might share some traits but at least they tried to defend themselves, I have also visited Bastogne to by the way. Next time a tour bus from Austria come to your border guard on a childrens field trip the scissors are child proof, tell your border guards not to run.

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30. Well, at first I was likeat : “No, not that sh**t again !” Then I read some comments which make me think that the guys from f==kfrance escaped from their mental hospital…  I don’t where those “caricatures” come from, but I guess it’s from friends of the GOP.

31. Long time no see, Miquelon.

    Wow, a blast from the past, with borderline retarded French-bashers and all! Had some fun over at the Yahoo news boards a couple days ago, baiting the bashers. They must be feeling pretty confused, now — in Iraq we were CESMs because we didn’t want to go to war, now we’re CESMs because we… want to go to war?

    Anyhow, keep up the good fight, Marc.

32. C’est le « syndrome de la Tourette » !!

33. What you don’t seem to have grasped, elvipoo, is that your predictable and hysterical anti-French rants  that we’ve heard a million times before reflect badly on you not on us.

    We could bash Americans just as easily but that would mean we’d have to lower down to your level, that of a slimy creepy coward throwing racial epithets and insults behind the safety of his computer screen.
    That’s not what not this site is about. This is what you and your ilk of ignorant xenophobes are and have always been about.

    But I gotta give you credit for one thing, though. It’s rare to see someone so proud to flaunt their ignorance and sheer stupidity to the world…
    Texas, huh ?

    Dance fatty, dance. Entertain us.

34. Don’t concern yourselves too much with Elvis and John Wayne my fellow bloggers, they don’t much like Canucks either.

35. Here’s something to hang your hat on Elvis, American culture, or lack of; the NRA, the Mafia, Man vs Food(gluttony), Kill Teams(Iraq & afghanistan), celebrity worship, theme parks, trailer parks,rednecks, GWB, NASCAR, hillbillies, obesity, racism, I could go on all day but you get the picture. Before you start bashing another country take a good look in your own back yard.

36. Yeah all thos sterotypes, yet we are the world’s only superpower. Too bad nobody wants to live here, oh wait don’t you all live here? Yeah America is such a pit that no immigranst ever try and get in, wait for it you all did. That is why you have this tasty little piece on the web because you hate being hated. Here’s what you should do. Don’t tell people you are french. I still have no idea why we hate you people more than the people we were at war with during world war II, maybe it is beause at least they would fight for something. While you’re listing our stereotypes, list our accomplishments. There isn’t enough room on this blog. List yours, there is enough room on a single tweet. Go sip from your bidet and please get your women electrolysis.

37. ” still have no idea why we hate you people more than the people we were at war with during world war II.”

    So French hater number 378951222# is also a nazi admirer. Nice.
    Finally you’re confirming what many of us have been saying for years about your ilk. Thank you.

    You’re aware you don’t speak for all Americans, right, you little creep ?

38. @elvisknievil By calling the French monkeys, do you mean you believe we are subhuman? You may have more in common with Hitler than I tought

    looks like Miquelon was right on the money.
    Michael Allen, the little Nazi sympathizer from Texas.

    Dance, fatty, Dance.

39. I am thrilled that you all say that you do not care, or call be a nazi sympathizer. If you do not care so much about what others especially a bunch of your words here, fat, racist, uneducated, incestuous, redneck, hillbillies think then why have a little place on the web to complain about us hating you. Why take time to post articles about what we think if you do not care about what we think. Maybe you should try and change the stereotype instead of bitching about it. Take a shower, start and finish a war on your own, and get your women to shave (pits, mustaches, legs, and backs included ), and quit drinking out of the bidets. I would say touche’ but much like the entire male population of your country, that would be both french and gay.

40. ^^
    We, we , we
    Who is we ?

    You’re some ignorant xenophobe on some bizarre anti French crusade and you’re also an avowed nazi sympathizer.
    You don’t speak for a majority of Americans.
    Because it would be tragic if you did. More so for Americans than it would be for us.
    You’re not that deluded, are you ?

    We’re well aware of what people like you have been trying to do and we take offense to it not because we care what jokes like you think of us but because most of  us love the US and France.

41. ” what others especially a bunch of your words here, fat, racist, uneducated, incestuous,redneck, hillbillie “

    To be fair I have no proof that you’re fat.
    Considering  your diarrhea-like contribution to this site so far , inbreeding is pretty likely and I’ll stand by it. Which would make redneck and hillbilly a bit redundant, I agree.

42. Elvira, it’s not a frenchman insulting you, it’s a Canadian.I’ve lived my whole life just 5 minutes from the U.S border town of Buffalo. We’ve had to endure loud, obnoxious assholes like you every Friday and Saturday nite as they bar hopped all over Niagara and southern Ontario trying to be, like you would say, manly. It’s unfortunate that for every decent American I’ve met over the years I meet losers still meet losers like you. By the way, 1812 was a great year for this country.

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44. So basically you’re better than everyone on the planet because you won the birth lottery and were born in America;
    Cool story, bro.
    I bet you have great accomplishments to your name. Obviously. lol

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    Hmmm here’s what **** says cut and pasted
    Basque (bsk)
    n.
    1. A member of a people of unknown origin inhabiting the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay in France and Spain.
    ============================
    Guess they only bomb Spain cause they don’t want france, nobody does. [Blog Comment Rules – Through your use of this site, you agree that you will not use this bulletin board to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, abusive, malign, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person’s privacy, or otherwise in violation of any law. Remember the 8th grade rule: if you wouldn’t post it in your daughter or son’s grade 8 class, why post it at all? http://www.miquelon.org/about/blog-comment-rules/%5D  Why give shit about us? You know exactly why Barney; because we are the big kid on the block. Like the small child you are you; need us to like you. We don’t so you cry to your mommy. Run along little boy, there is only one super power. Don’t tell me how you will laugh when we fall or whatnot because that is hypothetical and much like your country, it doesn’t matter.

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48. You don’t like us ? Thanks for the scoop.  Oh my God I don’t know if I can live with myself now.

    Being hated so much by the ignorant, intolerant ultra conservative retards you represent, people who are at least as despised as the French the world over,  is a great badge of honor for us.
    Just so you know.

    What now, elvipoo ?
    Another rant that nobody ‘s gonna read before dinner (some crap you must be eating too) ? You can do it.

    Dance, fatty. Dance.

49. I hate to remind or educate you that the websites namesake is made up of people who are so sick of the of being french they have been bombing Spain for the last 50 years.

    Your ability to completely fail at understanding what you just read on wikipedia is pretty mind boggling.

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