THIS WILL MAKE YOUR DAY

Now, French obstructionism wasn't all that cool. American backlash (well, childish right-wing revisionist backlash led by FoxNews and its Puffy-Lipped Botoxed Alpha-gurl Interchangeable Aryan Princess Anchorettes*) was really not cool. So those who hate FoxNews, or hated the "America Cool, France Cheese-eating-Surrender-Monkeys" pre-war rhetoric will be ever so pleased to know that FoxNews talked the talk, but couldn't walk the walk.

'Le Facteur' O'Reilly


• For the past several weeks, Fox News Channel star Bill O'Reilly has been bashing France and its government, urging viewers to boycott French products because they "lied" to and "double-crossed" the United States in the war against Saddam Hussein.

Even after the Iraqi dictator was tossed out of power, O'Reilly announced last month: "Until President [Jacques] Chirac apologizes to all Americans for putting us in danger, the boycott stays."

But yesterday, in what might be further evidence of a spring thaw in Franco-American relations, O'Reilly had lunch at La Colline, one of Washington's better-known French restaurants. "He had a soup and salad," part-owner Paul Zucconi, obviously an Italian Frenchman, told us, adding that his restaurant is popular with Fox News types because it's in the building that houses their Washington bureau. "He was eating light. He dined alone. He tipped 22 percent and was very nice."

Fox News spokesman Robert Zimmerman, meanwhile, said O'Reilly's boycott applies to products from France, not French cuisine being served in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.

Bold is my emphasis.

ASSHOLES, YER BUSTED!


Hat Tip: Maru!
*Interchangable Aryan Princess Anchorettes via The Mighty Reason Man. I found the statement so funny (I literally fell off my chair) I just had to co-opt it. Make it mainstream.

That's my over-the-top partisan moment for the day. I return you to normal programming.