'Anti-American' satirical newspaper bespeaks testy times btwn U.S., France

[Rose Siding]

PARIS (AP) -- Forget about all that trans-Atlantic talk of kiss-and-make-up following the "Freedom Fries''-era disagreements between France and the United States. There's a new tabloid on Paris newsstands offering an alternate take: "L'Anti-Americain.''

The cheeky newspaper's editor-in-chief says Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice can have a free issue of the satirical monthly when she's in Paris next week.

She'll need to have packed her sense of humor. This month's issue features an entry in a bogus George W. Bush diary that reads: "Ask the CIA: Where's China?''

Rice and her French counterparts hope to rebuild ties bruised by disagreements over the U.S.-led war in Iraq. In Paris, a stop on her swing through Europe and the Middle East, she'll give a major speech in which she's expected to lay out her vision for American diplomacy....

http://wvgazette.com/section/APNews/News/ap0443n

[Voltaire99]

1. LOL!

Must see a copy of this. :-)

[pinerow]

2. Ahhh...those pesky French...how dare they have a sense of humor!!

nt

[Flagg]

3. No worse than The Sun or the NY Post

And probably more clever.

[cliss]

4. I've got news for Conda-liar.

Anti-American sentiment is going to GROW, grow, grow. In spite of her half-baked attempts at "diplomacy". First of all, that word cannot be used in the same sentence as the BeelzeBush administration. It simply doesn't exist. A better word would be "coercion", or "thuggishness", or "brute force".

And it will have the same results as the above-named nouns: resistance, hedging, squirming, backing out etc etc.

BeetleBrain probably thought it would be better to send a woman to push his message. "She'll soften it," he thinks.

Not a chance. The rest of the world is able to think, unlike Mr. Cro-Magnon. And they remember. That's their job, as leaders of their countries.

Conda-Loser will find this out, to her dismay. They'll blow her off, and they'll have photos of protesters laying on the coffee table, as they meet.

[Joe Chi Minh]

5. Doesn't

she mean, "...(her vision for American diplomacy) by other means"?