Educating Jay: Have We Failed?
Jay Leno’s monologue, Friday October 13 – The Army has changed their slogan to “Army Strong”. It cost $200 million. That’s $100 million per word. Other countries are following with…
Et tu Craig…?
First it was an improvised joke last week about a French policeman guarding the Mona Lisa in Paris muttering, “Just in case, I surrender”. Then tonight it was a sketch…
Freedom Fries™?
No, this is not an HTML typo. Believe it or not, there are multiple active Freedom Fries™ trademarks recorded with the American Registry. Who you may ask?
Carson Daly & French-Bashing
While discussing the movie Flyboys, Carson Daly thought it would be amusing to bash the French with a few throw away lines about the French Army and the First World…
Open Letter to Glenn Beck
Dear Glenn, Our readers alerted us about the content of your program of September 19, 2006, because of alleged French-Bashing. Needless to say, the “alleged” melted away as soon as…
Glenn Beck and His Hatred of the French
Headline Prime News, A Time Warner Company – formally known as CNN Headline News before February 21st 2005 – is a righteous version of CNN, likely designed to appeal to…
Plus ça change …
Congratulations to Floyd Landis, young man from Pennsylvania, for winning the Tour de France. This is the eighth time in a row an American has gone through France and into…
Open Letter to Jay Leno about “Educating Jay”
“We believe you have quite an impact on the popular perception of French, even more so than Fox News, the New York Post, the Washington Times to name a few.…
French Bashing & Soccer
Eight years ago, when the French won the World Cup, a brief but vicious flurry of Anti-French jokes were made by late night comedians. This was a prelude to the…
CBS’s The Unit & the French
To the delight of columnists like Adam Buckman, the CBS series The Unit indulges in Anti-French slurs. First off, Adam Buckman of the New York Post writes “You have to…