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Originally posted by Reeka:
Groj:
I DID NOT deliberately misquote or get into hyperbole on the MacDonald's issue. The news report that I initially heard when I posted stated that it was "destroyed." And I stand by the fact the French have been the most outspokenly critical ofall of our allies. If you think the story was blown out of proportion, then your gripe is with the news media and not with me.
Or maybe we should have a rule in this forum and you should not post anything unless you have had it verified by three or more independent sources.
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Okies, sorry for addressing you directly then about this case; but if the media in your country really uses this way to bring the news, I'm not even surprised anymore why the problems between France and the US has dropped from a political to a personal ("freedom fries") level among some Americans.
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And for the record, I find the "where's my gun, ma, I'll teach those Frenchies statement," highly insulting and, I would think, beneath you, Groj.
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Like I said in my previous post, offending anyone with that remark wasn't my intention; if it's really that offensive, I'm truely sorry for making it in the first place. It wasn't meant as a personal attack of any kind directed at you or anyone else here at IW, more of a poor attempt at using witty sarcasm to criticise those Americans who'd actually dislike (sometimes even hate) France and all of its inhabitants because of the way some of the US media has portrayed them since the French Government's persistent disagreement with the US in the UN over the Iraqi matter - the fact that a political problem stooped to the level of a personal one ("freedom fries", incidents like
this one, many below the waist remarks in France's direction I've read on several message boards) is something which is
completely beyond me and is literally causing a lot of sadness and frustration within me. Sorry if I indirectly vented my dismay over all of this in that one remark (and I regret using a lightheartedly meant stereotype for that
), it was directed at no one around here at IW in particular; it wasn't even meant to be offensive in the first place, and once again my excuses if it was.
[ 03-23-2003, 05:30 PM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]