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Originally posted by JohnnyUtah
BustIt - Your full of shit "The French are Player Haters"
What the fuck are you talking about? Bush is the player in the sense of this sentence? Can I please have what your smoking?
Your full of shit
So is your government...
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Power envy. America is the main Player. Much of Europe's anti-Americanism is simply a neurotic attempt to compensate for its loss of status since WWII.
Here are links to the conspiracy theory spoken of:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Ar...386220,00.html
And here's a good quote from:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles...e.asp?ID=11759
Now with all this in mind, how can one expect French people not to be anti-American? Such brainwashing is ubiquitous, from the press to TV networks and books, presenting only one choice: to hate us. When another point of view, favorable to the US, comes along, it is not publicized at all. For example Alain Hertoghe, a journalist from the Christian daily newspaper, La Croix, wrote a book entitled An All-Out War: How the Press Misinformed Us on Iraq. He did not get any press coverage, any publicity. Why? Because his outstanding book shows extensively and statistically how the French press took sides during the war in Iraq. Studying the five major French newspapers, he found out that out of 164 titles about Iraq, 135 were actually against Bush (?the irresponsible, violent, imperialist, fundamentalist? American leader) and only 29 against Saddam Hussein. Furthermore, he proves how the French press lied in reporting the situation on the ground in Iraq just to justify their anti-Americanism. What do you think happened to Hertoghe after the publishing of this book? He was fired, a few weeks ago, by La Croix for obvious reasons: criticizing the French press does not go well; if only he could have done like everybody else and smeared America?
France has a long history of anti-Americanism, which has now turned into an obsession. Everything negative occurring in the planet, or for that matter even in France, is the fault of the USA. Blame it on America has turned into a national sport.
The main origin for that feeling is the media and the intellectual crowd. But, contrary to what is happening in the US, it is not only confined to the Left. Everyone from the Greens to the Center to the Right and the Far Right agree on only one statement: America is EVIL.