Glenn Beck’s French Problem
Miquelon.org readers are familiar with Glenn Beck’s profound Anti-French bias. We wrote to Glenn back in September when he aired a ridiculous montage in a segment where he professed his…
Brown Journalism
University of Chicago Student and Chicago “Maroon” contributor James Conway wrote an piece on the French Elections replete with the worst kind of Anti-French stereotypes that are all derived from…
The Category is French Bashing
The Answer Is : “The French don’t always think that highly of us anyway” The question? What did Alex Trebek say on Jeopardy, Thursday April 12th 2007 during an aside…
The French : Arrogant, Supercilious, Self-Righteous and Dirty?
Ted Reinstein’s column “Hold the Fries”, despite some good intentions, is replete with Anti-French stereotypes of the worst kind. The column dwells on historical caricatures, a backhanded dismissal of the…
Should Schools serve “Freedom Fries”?
Self-appointed Culture Warrior Bill O’Reilly may indeed be correct about one thing: America’s schools are a battleground for political agendas. But while O’Reilly sees the hand of “secular progressives” in…
Mitt Romney, French-Hating Republican?
Former Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and candidate to the Republican presidential nomination of 2008, had the unfortunate luck of having his strategy leaked to the Boston Globe this…
A Few Items of Interest from Borat to Google Bombs
The Heyday of Snobbery – One of our astute readers noted that David Brooks wrote an article, back in November, centred around the movie Borat, where he stigmatized those whose…
Miquelon.org Quoted in the Financial Times
(…) But even before the launch of France 24, Chirac could count on volunteers to fight for the Gallic world view abroad thanks to an informal media monitoring network called…