Why do they hate the French?

[Swede]

I really don't understand these people.

"For all that, he is well paid: about $750,000 a year. Money well-spent if you consider that last year, he and two colleagues “brought the state $8,303,982 in research grants. In addition, the total clinical revenue for the pediatric cardiothoracic faculty practice was $1,856,783. This is because instead of sending Colorado babies to San Francisco and Boston for open-heart surgery, now babies from across the country come here, where the mortality rate now is below the national average.”


That, apparently, does not please El Paso County Commissioner Douglas Bruce. Mr. Bruce, a Republican, is campaigning to defeat what is known as Referendum C, a question about state financing in next week’s local elections. Mr. Bruce contends that Colorado taxpayers should not have to pay any part of Colorado University’s salaries.

To make his case, Bruce recently produced a report showing that 1,844 CU professors make more than the governor’s $90,000-a-year salary. He called it a “shocking example of humongous government waste in the state of Colorado.”

But he did not go after all 1,844 professors. He went after the French one!

Bruce called people like Lacour-Gayet “pseudo professors” who are contributing to a “corrupt, greedy and bloated empire” at CU, and said that each of “his six names1 makes more than Governor Owens does. Francois should settle for the governor’s salary.”

Then he added:

“That would still keep him in snails and smelly cheese.”

Charming, this Mr. Douglas Bruce!

http://superfrenchie.com/?p=220

[jobycom]

1. The French eat better, drink better, and have no cholesterol problems

and are better with the women. Of course Repubs hate them.

[NWHarkness]

2. Right Wingers hate France because

France represents the reality that it is posible to have an open, democratic society that is not based on the American model. It puts lie to all their notions of American exceptionalism

[Tamyrlin79]

3. that and...

the French don't share their qualms about abortions and gay sex

[ArkDem]

4. It goes back to Camelot.....excerpt below......

GUARD: Allo! Who is eet?
ARTHUR: It is King Arthur, and these are my Knights of the Round Table. Who's castle is this?
FRENCH GUARD: This is the castle of my master, Guy de Loimbard.
ARTHUR: Go and tell your master that we have been charged by God with a sacred quest. If he will give us food and shelter for the night, he can join us
in our quest for the Holy Grail.
FRENCH GUARD: Well, I'll ask him, but I don't think he'll be very keen. Uh, he's already got one, you see.
ARTHUR: What?
GALAHAD: He says they've already got one!
ARTHUR: Are you sure he's got one?
FRENCH GUARD: Oh, yes. It's very nice-a. (I told him we already got one.)
FRENCH GUARDS:
ARTHUR: Well, u-- um, can we come up and have a look?
FRENCH GUARD: Of course not! You are English types-a!
ARTHUR: Well, what are you, then?
FRENCH GUARD: I'm French! Why do think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king-a?!
GALAHAD: What are you doing in England?
FRENCH GUARD: Mind your own business!
ARTHUR: If you will not show us the Grail, we shall take your castle by force!
FRENCH GUARD: You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottom, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called Arthur
King, you and all your silly English k-nnnnniggets. Thpppppt! Thppt! Thppt!
GALAHAD: What a strange person.
ARTHUR: Now look here, my good man--
FRENCH GUARD: I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a
hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
GALAHAD: Is there someone else up there we could talk to?
FRENCH GUARD: No. Now, go away, or I shall taunt you a second time-a!

[Metta]

5. Everyone needs a scapegoat. - Malcom X.

Keeps focus of of them, as I'm sure you know.

[Touchdown]

6. The French don't get circumcized.

So they're jealous.:evilgrin:

Yes...it's flamebait.:D

[burythehatchet]

7. because French philosophers and the Frenmch enlightenment

are the basis for liberal ideology.

[noonwitch]

8. They expect the French to be eternally grateful to the US over WWII

Of course, we should be eternally grateful to them for helping us reach independence from Britain, but I guess the statute of limitations on that one passed.

[stanwyck]

9. It's a lazy punchline

for people who have nothing else to say. Reminds me of a Daily Show this week where the kids were reading a Hannity/Holmes/Coulter exchange. The discussion was Catholicism and how that impacts beliefs on the death penalty and abortion. Coulter's contribution was to squawk "Ted Kennedy! Chappaquidick! That's it. Her contribution. No discussion of the topic. Just "Ted Kennedy killed a girl".
The rightwingers are lazy. Blaming the French has become the fallback.
When you don't read or travel or pay attention...you're at a loss. So. You bleat out what you've already heard. Numerous times before.
It's supposed to cover how stupid you are.