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March 23, 2006

PLANET MORONIA: When Good Tadpoles Go Bad

 

 

A day in the life of John Kerry’s paradise: students riot and French “thinkers” perorate in complete, utter detachment from reality:

 

 

 

“These riots were overestimated by the American press.”

 

 

“It was not the end of the world.”

 

 

“The government managed the crisis in a rather clever way.”

 

 

“No dead, no tragedy, much better, by the way, than the way America handled [the Los Angeles] riots.”

 

 

“Will it happen again? I think so. It is the beginning, I fear.”

 

 

 

- One of France's "brilliant minds", Bernard-Henri Lévy in an interview with Foreign Policy Magazine (March/April 2006) discussing the previous wave of unrest across France.

 

Maybe comparisons with the LA riots were a little pre-mature then, n’est ce pas?

 

 

RELATED: Blogbat looks at how journalists have really covered various forms of unrest in France and elsewhere

 

 

Posted by Martin at March 23, 2006 09:31 PM

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