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To: American Spirit who wrote (381592)	3/29/2003 4:06:19 PM
From: jim-thompson	Respond to of 769670

American Hag, you can ask your frog friends to read this dispatch..... hehehehe>> 1. French Government Officially Boycotting NewsMax It's official - the government of France is boycotting NewsMax.com. This week, NewsMax Pundit Charles Smith called the French embassy in Washington and spoke with Deputy Press Counsel Agnes Vondermuhal. Ms. Vondermuhal bluntly stated that the embassy had passed details of NewsMax's "Boycott France" campaign, including our recent ad in the New York Times, on to officials in Paris. Apparently, the Chirac government was angered, and expressed their concern about the NewsMax boycott with a simple statement: "We are boycotting NewsMax." Ms. Vondermuhal said the embassy had taken strong exception to a recent NewsMax advertisement in the New York Times and stated that the information presented by NewsMax was incorrect. She noted that the French had voted for U.N. resolution 1441 on Iraq and that France was supporting the U.S. war against Saddam. Ms. Vondermuhal also asserted that the NewsMax campaign against France bordered on racism, saying that her mother was Jewish and faced similar insults during the Vichy years in France. Racism? (Too bad the French government has done little about anti-Semitic violence carried out by appeasement activists in Paris this past week, a report NewsMax carried.) NewsMax has pointed out that France as a sovereign nation has acted to oppose the effort of the U.S., Britain and dozens of others nations who sought to disarm Iraq peacefully. We also pointed out that France has moved from understandable dissent with America to aggressive collaboration with Iraq - including leading a worldwide coalition to oppose the United States. France, for example, has threatened other European nations it would block European Union membership if they supported the U.S. There is also growing evidence that France assisted Iraq in recent years with military and technology transfers in violation of existing UN resolutions. What is also clear is that the government of France is very threatened by NewsMax's effort. NewsMax has taken the lead in the Boycott France campaign, having placed newspapers ads in the Washington Times and New York Times, as well as having flooded the Internet with more than 20 million messages encouraging the boycott and providing a list of French owned companies to boycott. Many American media have been fearful of pushing the envelope with a French boycott, as NewsMax has. Why? French owned companies buy huge amounts of advertising on American media channels. NewsMax, however, will not sell out. We stand for America and American values, and that's why we oppose the French for their vile efforts to undermine America and back Iraq. Editor's Note: Join our Boycott France campaign and help us reach millions more - click here now: newsmax.com