The French Should Shut Up And Show Respect To America

[Real American]

The French Should Shut Up!
By Andy Rooney
CBS News | February 25, 2003


You can't beat the French when it comes to food, fashion, wine or perfume, but they lost their license to have an opinion on world affairs years ago. They may even be selling stuff to Iraq and don't want to hurt business.

The French are simply not reliable partners in a world where the good people in it ought to be working together. Americans may come off as international jerks sometimes but we're usually trying to do the right thing.

The French lost WWII to the Germans in about 20 minutes. Along with the British, we got into the war and had about 150,000 guys killed getting their country back for them. We fought all across France, and the Germans finally surrendered in a French schoolhouse.

You'd think that school building in Reims would be a great tourist attraction but it isn't. The French seem embarrassed by it. They don't want to call attention to the fact that we freed them from German occupation.

I heard Steven Spielberg say the French wouldn't even let him film the D-Day scenes in "Saving Private Ryan" on the Normandy beaches. They want people to forget the price we paid getting their country back for them.

Americans have a right to protest going to war with Iraq. The French do not. They owe us the independence they flaunt in our face at the U.N.

I went into Paris with American troops the day we liberated it, Aug. 25, 1944. It was one of the great days in the history of the world.

French women showered American soldiers with kisses, at the very least. The next day, the pompous Charles de Gaulle marched down the mile long Champs Elysee to the Place de la Concorde as if he had liberated France himself. I was there, squeezed in among a hundred tanks we'd given the Free French Army that we brought in with us.

Suddenly there were sniper shots from the top of a building. Thousands of Frenchmen who had come to see de Gaulle scrambled to get under something. I got under an Army truck myself. The tank gunners opened fire on the building where the shots had come from, firing mindlessly at nothing. It was a wild scene that lasted, maybe, 10 minutes.

When we go to Paris every couple of years now, I rent a car. I drive around the Place de la Concorde and when some French driver blows his horn for me to get out of his way, I just smile and say to myself, "Go ahead, Pierre. Be my guest. I know something about this very place you'll never know."

The French have not earned their right to oppose President Bush's plans to attack Iraq.

On the other hand, I have.
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Andy Rooney is a long-standing commentator for CBS's "60 Minutes."

[verbalassaulta]

great words by andy rooney...and lol to the cowardly french who lost in 20 minutes

[Woodrow]

LOL,

Andy Rooney is by far, one of the funniest journalists out there.

I love to watch him every sunday on 60 mins.

[Woodrow]

Lets see if we can turn this thread into a flame war...

Q: Why do the French Smell?
A: So blind people can hate them too!

Q: Why are Parisian streets lined with trees?
A: Nazis like to march in the shade.

Q: What is the difference between a French woman and a hockey player?
A: At least the hockey player showers after every third period.

Lets not forget Shakespear:
"...Base muleteers of France!
Like peasant footboys do they keep the walls
And dare not take up arms like gentlemen."
--William Shakespeare, Henry VI - Part I, 1592

[Maestro Minded]

Lets see if we can turn this thread into a flame war...

Q: Why do the French Smell?
A: So blind people can hate them too!

Q: Why are Parisian streets lined with trees?
A: Nazis like to march in the shade.

Q: What is the difference between a French woman and a hockey player?
A: At least the hockey player showers after every third period.

Lets not forget Shakespear:
"...Base muleteers of France!
Like peasant footboys do they keep the walls
And dare not take up arms like gentlemen."
--William Shakespeare, Henry VI - Part I, 1592

Q. Whats americas lowest building??
A. Twin Towers

Q. Why are americans so stupid?
A. They got that from bush

[Woodrow]

Did you make those up?

They really weren't that funny.  

It's funny to me that even Shakespear bagged on the french.

[Woodrow]

Q. Why are americans so stupid?
A. They got that from bush

But you Don't hate Americans....  

[Maestro Minded]

Did you make those up?

They really weren't that funny.  

It's funny to me that even Shakespear bagged on the french.

maby cuz he's brittish and its a known fact that french and brittish have hated eachovers through centuries.... but i guess you gotta know some european history to understand that

[Maestro Minded]

Q. Why are americans so stupid?
A. They got that from bush

But you Don't hate Americans....  

i wouldnt be in this forums if i hated americans....

[Woodrow]

Did you make those up?

They really weren't that funny.  

It's funny to me that even Shakespear bagged on the french.

maby cuz he's brittish and its a known fact that french and brittish have hated eachovers through centuries.... but i guess you gotta know some european history to understand that

No, I read somewhere that Shakespear actually American. I know you will say that America hadn't been "discovered" then, but it's gotta be true, cause I read it somewhere.

Here are some GOOD American Jokes:

REASONS FOR BEING AMERICAN
- You can have a woman president without electing her.
- You can call Budwieser beer.
- You can be a crook and still be president.
- If you can breathe, you can get a gun.
- You can invent a new public holiday every year.
- You can play golf in the most hideous clothes ever made and nobody seems to care.
- You get to call everyone you've never met "buddy."
- With very little effort you can annoy the French!


See, those were slightly funny!

[HBKid_Jr]

Q. Whats americas lowest building??
A. Twin Towers

whats the difference between i-bo an a bucket of shit???

the bucket

[Maestro Minded]

Q. Whats americas lowest building??
A. Twin Towers

whats the difference between i-bo an a bucket of shit???

the bucket

uhm.... ok?

Q. Whats the diffrence between tom's mom and a whore on drugs??
A. not much

[HBKid_Jr]

Q. Whats americas lowest building??
A. Twin Towers

whats the difference between i-bo an a bucket of shit???

the bucket

uhm.... ok?

Q. Whats the diffrence between tom's mom and a whore on drugs??
A. not much

cept the joke i said was tru about u fuckin nigger an if i get banned for callin u a nigger so be it u stuck up pompous nigger.  fuckin nigger should be out in the cotton field pickin cotton.  god what i would to beat u to death with fuckin hammer

[infinite59]

cept the joke i said was tru about u fuckin nigger an if i get banned for callin u a nigger so be it u stuck up pompous nigger.  fuckin nigger should be out in the cotton field pickin cotton.  god what i would to beat u to death with fuckin hammer

I-Bo is a good brother and I'd appreciate it if you didn't speak about him with prejudice.  You are diplaying a great lack of education, lack of moral character, lack of understanding, and an inability to accept another human being.

[Maestro Minded]

Q. Whats americas lowest building??
A. Twin Towers

whats the difference between i-bo an a bucket of shit???

the bucket

uhm.... ok?

Q. Whats the diffrence between tom's mom and a whore on drugs??
A. not much

cept the joke i said was tru about u fuckin nigger an if i get banned for callin u a nigger so be it u stuck up pompous nigger.  fuckin nigger should be out in the cotton field pickin cotton.  god what i would to beat u to death with fuckin hammer

first off... im not american, which means that non of my relatives have ever worked as slaves, which means non of my relatives have ever been pickin cotton.... that diss couldnt be thorn against bkack americans..... learn your history you racist fuck