Wednesday, April 16, 2003
French Finally Admit Boycott Hurts
At least the French have stopped lying about one thing: They finally admit that the American boycott is hitting them where it counts.
"The nation's principal business federation took the unusual step of publicly acknowledging the problem, conceding today that sales, recruitment and business contacts have been hurt," the Washington Post reported today.
Previously the Frogs kept claiming that the boycott led by NewsMax.com and other organizations was not affecting them. Now they're so worried that their Federation of Wine Exporters has called a meeting Thursday to fret over what to do.
Importers of French products say the boycott has had a "significant" effect, the Post revealed. Patricia Carreras, president of IC&A Inc., a home-decor business in New York that imports only French products, said sales had fallen a whopping 40 to 50 percent since February.
"It's a very, very deep reaction. We would never have expected something so lasting. I think it has been accelerating even in the last four weeks," complained Carreras, who is French.
"Certain French enterprises are suffering today from the differences that have arisen among states over the Iraqi question," said Movement of French Enterprises. "It is necessary to say to those who are unhappy with the positions of French diplomacy that they are free to criticize, but they must keep products and services of our enterprises outside their quarrel."
Oh, we must? Sorry, we don't take orders from the yellow French. They're free to keep trying to foist their stinky cheeses and ripoff water and third-rate death-trap cars on the public, and we're free to refuse to buy those products and advise others to do likewise.
Guillaume Touton, a French wine importer in New York, says that Americans' disgust with the Frogs cost him $500,000 in sales last month. "We want to send the message to the French side to please do something. Or, if you don't want to do anything, then please shut up," he said.
Now that's something we call all agree on.
France's Biggest Lie of the Month
More Frog news: France is in such a dither over its disastrous support for genocidal maniac Saddam Hussein that Chirac's ruling party today issued one of its biggest whoppers ever: that Paris is Washington's "best ally" in the fight against terrorism!
"We continue to think, as paradoxical as it might sound, that we are the best allies of the Americans, because we are preoccupied by the same reality: terrorism," claimed Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, spokesman for Chirac's Union for a Popular Movement.
Considering how France has failed to curb the rise of radical Islam among its huge Arab population and has done little to stop rampant acts of violence against its Jewish population, that's a hot one.
French Finally Admit Boycott Hurts
At least the French have stopped lying about one thing: They finally admit that the American boycott is hitting them where it counts.
"The nation's principal business federation took the unusual step of publicly acknowledging the problem, conceding today that sales, recruitment and business contacts have been hurt," the Washington Post reported today.
Previously the Frogs kept claiming that the boycott led by NewsMax.com and other organizations was not affecting them. Now they're so worried that their Federation of Wine Exporters has called a meeting Thursday to fret over what to do.
Importers of French products say the boycott has had a "significant" effect, the Post revealed. Patricia Carreras, president of IC&A Inc., a home-decor business in New York that imports only French products, said sales had fallen a whopping 40 to 50 percent since February.
"It's a very, very deep reaction. We would never have expected something so lasting. I think it has been accelerating even in the last four weeks," complained Carreras, who is French.
"Certain French enterprises are suffering today from the differences that have arisen among states over the Iraqi question," said Movement of French Enterprises. "It is necessary to say to those who are unhappy with the positions of French diplomacy that they are free to criticize, but they must keep products and services of our enterprises outside their quarrel."
Oh, we must? Sorry, we don't take orders from the yellow French. They're free to keep trying to foist their stinky cheeses and ripoff water and third-rate death-trap cars on the public, and we're free to refuse to buy those products and advise others to do likewise.
Guillaume Touton, a French wine importer in New York, says that Americans' disgust with the Frogs cost him $500,000 in sales last month. "We want to send the message to the French side to please do something. Or, if you don't want to do anything, then please shut up," he said.
Now that's something we call all agree on.
France's Biggest Lie of the Month
More Frog news: France is in such a dither over its disastrous support for genocidal maniac Saddam Hussein that Chirac's ruling party today issued one of its biggest whoppers ever: that Paris is Washington's "best ally" in the fight against terrorism!
"We continue to think, as paradoxical as it might sound, that we are the best allies of the Americans, because we are preoccupied by the same reality: terrorism," claimed Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, spokesman for Chirac's Union for a Popular Movement.
Considering how France has failed to curb the rise of radical Islam among its huge Arab population and has done little to stop rampant acts of violence against its Jewish population, that's a hot one.
