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To: Ilaine who wrote (68542)1/24/2003 6:10:25 PM
From: tekboy  Read Replies (6) | Respond to of 281500
 
yup. see this interesting new piece by Timothy Garton Ash in the New York Review of Books on "American Anti-Europeanism"...

nybooks.com

tb@source.com

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The Na-tional Review Online editor and self-proclaimed conservative "frog-basher" Jonah Goldberg, who also can be seen on television, has popularized the epithet quoted above, "cheese-eating sur- render monkeys," which first appeared in an episode of The Simpsons. Goldberg told me that when he started writing anti-French pieces for National Review in 1998 he found "there was a market for it." French-bashing became, he said, "a shtick."

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