Post #284,468
5/11/07 8:39:22 PM
5/11/07 8:40:27 PM
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Same as the rest of the media and the American public.
Taking things that aren't important and trying to make them so.
As Bill Mahr mentions [link|http://www.hbo.com/billmahr/newrules/20070504.html|here] when speaking about French elections:
"The electorate doesn't vote for the guy they want to have a croissant with; nor do they care about private lives. In the current race, S\ufffdgol\ufffdne Royal has four kids, but she never got married. And she's a Socialist. In America, if a Democrat even thinks you're calling him "liberal," he grabs an orange vest and a rifle and heads into the woods to kill something!
Madame Royal's opponent is married, but they live apart and lead separate lives. And the people are okay with that for the same reason they're okay with nude beaches; because they're not a nation of six-year-olds who scream and giggle if they see pee-pee parts!
They have weird ideas about privacy. They think it should be private. In France, even the mistresses have mistresses. To not have a lady on the side says to the voters, "I'm no good at multi-tasking.""
Edited by n3jja
May 11, 2007, 08:40:27 PM EDT
Same as the rest of the media and the American public.
Taking things that aren't important and trying to make them so.
As Bill Mahr mentions [link|http://www.hbo.com/billmahr/newrules/20070504.html|here] when speaking about French elections:
The electorate doesn't vote for the guy they want to have a croissant with; nor do they care about private lives. In the current race, Ségolène Royal has four kids, but she never got married. And she's a Socialist. In America, if a Democrat even thinks you're calling him "liberal," he grabs an orange vest and a rifle and heads into the woods to kill something!
Madame Royal's opponent is married, but they live apart and lead separate lives. And the people are okay with that for the same reason they're okay with nude beaches; because they're not a nation of six-year-olds who scream and giggle if they see pee-pee parts!
They have weird ideas about privacy. They think it should be private. In France, even the mistresses have mistresses. To not have a lady on the side says to the voters, "I'm no good at multi-tasking."
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Post #284,534
5/13/07 5:14:21 AM
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Just caught that episode tonight -
(friend gets sent a tape, so it's always a week late)
He's getting better IMO (more concise/better editing) in limning key elements of the solipsistic silliness which fuels our National conceits. (But it's especially hard to employ humor to nail the Murican addiction to sanctimony.. too pathetic/icky to be made-out remotely funny, I guess.)
Yeah.. those Stupid French! - they just couldn't match the vision-thing of that Terribly Wise International Terrorism group (twit.org - er, subscription is $200B/yr, though.)
Missed their chance to join in on the festivities -- just look at all they've lost by their cheese-eating Discrimination, the pricks!
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Post #284,544
5/13/07 10:13:27 AM
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Re: those Stupid French!
Yep, their election turnout was piddling! Oh, wait a minute... The French paid attention to this election. [link|http://www.wctrib.com/articles/index.cfm?id=20064§ion=opinion|Turnout was 85 percent], a number that ought to shame the United States, which is lucky to get near 50 percent in its presidential contests. Alex
When fascism comes to America, it'll be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. -- Sinclair Lewis
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Post #284,546
5/13/07 11:15:14 AM
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In true noo-meeja style...
...I'm subscribed to the podcast.
Peter
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Post #284,581
5/13/07 8:29:26 PM
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Heard an interesting comparison of French politics.
[link|http://www.abc.net.au/correspondents/|Correspondent's Report] on [link|http://www.abc.net.au/rn/|ABC Radio National] asked their European Correspondant to [link|http://www.abc.net.au/correspondents/content/2007/s1921259.htm|interview himself about the current changes in France and the UK]. You have to love a city where the simple act of buying a ham and cheese sandwich and a double espresso can be so nourishing - the smell, the workmen chatting at the bar, the guy behind the bar producing it all with a flourish.
And then the harsh, impatient Anglo-Saxon reality of my job clashes with that delightful, yet laid-back, French attitude. I need to pay and quickly run a couple of hundred metres and get back to the camera position looking over the Eiffel Tower.
But the guy behind the bar, the one with the flourish, is in the middle of a relaxed but animated chat with a suave looking couple. I'm waving around my money, but he hasn't noticed, and he's in no rush.
As the minutes click down, and in my mind's eye I hear Lateline's theme tune going to air in Australia, it suddenly hits me - this is what the left in France fears will be destroyed by Nicolas Sarkozy, their way of life, their passionate resistance to what they see as an Anglo-Saxon led rat-race fuelled by turbo-charged globalisation.
But I made it back in time, all the while thinking French politics is so far to the left of politics in the UK and Australia that Kevin Rudd's industrial relations policy would be seen as more right-wing than that of the supposedly divisive and newly elected French President. It may not make much sense to anyone not up on Australian politics, but it was an illuminating look. And even if that quote doesn't make sense, Epstein goes on to talk about Tony Blair's farewell speech and how England in that context compares to France. Wade.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Post #284,585
5/14/07 2:46:17 AM
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OT: what is it with tiny text?
I'm going to stab, in the face, over the Internet, the next Web 2.0 haiku-writing motherfucker who puts body text in 7 or 8 point [link|http://pigeonsnest.co.uk/stuff/crapstuff/verdana.html|Verdana]. Bonus face stabbings for making said text medium grey.
Fuckheads. Don't you want us to read it?
Peter
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