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  3. No, that is beyond silly. France chooses to disagree with us, that is there right. It is downright petty to change the menu items.
    Gar!

  4. The French Embassy in Washington had no immediate comment, except to say that french fries actually come from Belgium. Go France!

  6. Hey i’m not american, and i hate to think my money was going to anything as pointless as that. But then again it probably is.
    Kordith

  7. “This action today is a small but symbolic effort to show the complete disregard of many on Capitol Hill for the intelligence of our so-called constituents,” said Ney, chairman of the House Administration Committee.
    Oh, wait, that was a paraphrase … means about the same thing, right?

  9. Any bets on whether Republicans will stop swilling Champagne at taxpayer expense? Or do you think they’re too stupid to notice it’s French too?

  13. Feh. I’m about to go into one of these fine establishments, order some “french” fries and if they won’t take my order – I’ll leave.
    How stupid can you get. Wait. Don’t answer that.

  15. yep…
    just read about it on Pravda…ooops… i mean CNN.com…(same difference these days…)
    freedom fries eh?
    good lord…
    this irrational anger and hatred of France, and french people in general is ridiculous…
    personally, i find it heartening to see countries standing up against the current regime in the US…
    i just find it sad to see that some folks mistake the worlds anger at the white house administration and your current leader as ‘anti-US’ or that we (as the rest of the world) don’t like the United States..
    total rubbish…
    of course we like the US.
    we like it plenty…
    hell, the folks i’ve met while traveling through america were amongst the nicest i’ve ever come across..
    and there’s you, of course, wil
    and folks like Kevin Smith…
    i mean really, how can you hate a country that has actor/writers like you and kevin?
    we like america, and americans just fine…
    not so keen on that bush guy tho…
    or the rest of the hawks that are whispering in his ear…
    anyhow…take care wil….
    and as always..if you’re looking for PROPER journalism and views on the upcoming masacre in the desert…
    http://www.zmag.org
    (gotta plug them…my bro-in-law helps run the site, and it’s always got the latest from Chomsky, Zinn and Fisk..how can you go wrong)
    😉

  16. Haha! That’s too much! I can’t believe it..I’m proud to be an American and all, but good Lord…….

  17. Yeah, the roomie and I were talking about this just this morning.
    We think better names would have been Dictaters/Dictater-tots and Texas Toast
    God Bless America…Please!

  19. I don’t think it is stupid. What I think is stupid is the French not supporting us. The French will only want somehting done when Iraqi troops are marching down the Paris streets, or when Paris looks like Beruit. I intend to use the “Freedom” moniker myself.
    PLEASE NOTE: I am not attacking Wil. I am simply disagreeing with him. Thanks!

  25. Actually, it makes these people look downright ignorant. Makes ’em feel good at the expense of intelligence and makes ’em figure that they’ll look good to their constituents. I’d like to think that folks are smarter than the congresscritters who swill at the public trough and don’t have the balls to stand up to a president who expects the rest of us to sacrifice our loved ones in a war that isn’t yet justified.
    Oh. Wait. I forgot. He’s justifying it by calling everybody evil. And curtailing civil rights. And stomping his foot while getting mad at France and others who may just possibly be seeing this with clearer vision (i.e. no blood-lust besotting their thoughts) than our leaders are at this point.
    Argh!!!!

  26. You think this is stupid?
    We had the millenium dome.
    *shudders*
    It’s nice you exercise your freedom of speech in the US without reprisal because apparently we in the rest of the world aren’t allowed to.
    Y’all think about that now.
    If you want to that is.
    No pressure.
    *leers*
    (Any responses please see me in the forums so we dont clog up the comments)

  30. My sentiments exactly. I covered this story a little differently on my web page: burka.blogspot.com (or tomburka.com). BTW, I invite rich Republicans to “throw out” French champagne, wine, etc. by sending the bottles to me. Or even Wil.

  31. Damn right that is stupid. It sounds very junior high and yet very appropriate for the Bush administration’s “you’re either with us or your against us” approach.

  34. This is just plane sad, pathetic, and stupid. French toast and french fries has always been a favorite of mine. It’s no wonder I have little faith in this world sometimes.

  36. Ha, yeah, I just read about that, like 5 minutes before coming here.
    Freedom fries…. ah… national security…

  37. It’s actually pretty frightening. It’s just the kind of xenophobic behaviour that can lead to long-term conflict. Just watch the predjudice arise in your own communities. Any French citizens in the US (UK, or even here where I am in Australia) will now be targeted by rednecks. Oh joy.

  40. What’s worse is that neither “French fries” nor “French toast” is French in origin!
    Though if they are looking to remove French wines from their menus, I think that I could take some off of their hands. All in the name of freedom, of course! 😉
    These are sad, sad times.

  41. in repsonse to “freedom”‘s comment, I must remind him/her (more likely the former;) that the French OPENLY supported the UNANIMOUS UN military action in Afghanistan. They agreed with the direct link the U.S. PROVED to ALL UN SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBERS between the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and 9-11 attackers. Oh, they also provided 10% of the bill for Desert Storm, openly supported our military strikes against Libya in the 80s. But yeah, I guess we need to ignore their cultural contributions (even though most did not come from them in the first place). Yet no one has boycotted chicken nuggets, a DISTINCTLY French invention, as anyone who bothered to go there would know. They just don’t care until they’ve been invaded. That whole thing in the Ivory Coast is because their are Iverian soldiers marching down the Champs Elysee, not because they are stopping a civil war and genocide.

  43. “The French Embassy in Washington had no immediate comment, except to say that french fries actually come from Belgium.”
    that is awesome. hahaha

  46. Okay, now I’m the only practicing Republican I know under the age of thirty, and even I think this is dumb. But really, are we entering an age of widespread and entrenched francophobia? No. Nobody will remember this in a year’s time. It’s a blip. We’re not going to invade France and drive the inhabitants into the Mediterranean in a bloody rout. Though god knows, it’s not an entirely bad idea…
    These folks are idiots, though.

  47. Hmm seems we made a mistake electing bush….my lil sister could been a better president…i mean he wont even accept to take a iq test in public how sad is that

  49. So after all of the times that France has stood (and fought) by our side, we’ve decided that they are no longer worthy enough to have their own opinion. Never mind that Russia and Germany agree with them – are we going to go back to calling German Shephards “Alsaysians” like we did in WWII?

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