Mark Steyn: The Eurosnots learn nothing

National Post (Canada) ^ | 04/26/2002 | Mark Steyn

[Pokey78]

Ping for the MSPL.

[dennisw]

Pinging for......for........ great justice and this full moon Friday

[xm177e2]

The best response to this line of thinking was by the shrewd Internet commentatrix Megan McArdle: "They're completely missing the point, which is that it's hilarious."

Megan McArdle's website <== go here

[Rightwing Canuck]

He would fit right in as a guest host on the CBC's CounterSpin.

LOL it's funny 'cause it's true.

Today, the sick man of Europe is the European -- the urbane Continental princelings like Chirac and Michel, gliding from capital to capital building their Eutopia, oblivious to the popular will except on those rare occasions, such as Sunday, when the people do something so impertinent they finally catch the eye of their haughty maître d'

This should be the quote of the week.

[arm958]

To the list of polities destined to slip down the Eurinal of history, we must add the European Union and France's Fifth Republic. The only question is how messy their disintegration will be.

I'm glad I read the whole article. The "Eurinal of History" had me laughing out loud. The sad thing is, the author is correct.

[Illbay]

M. Le Pen is an economic protectionist in favour of the minimum wage, lavish subsidies for France's incompetent industries and inefficient agriculture; he's anti-American and fiercely opposed to globalization.

Wow! Maybe in a few years when M. Le Pen is of an even more advanced age than his current advanced age, Pat Buchanan can go over there and continue what Le Pen started.

The above describes Pat Buchanan in every particular.

[FITZ]

Suddenly French politics has become interesting.

[IoCaster]

Priceless. This is one for the ages.

LMAO

Thanks.

[Huck]

The above describes Pat Buchanan in every particular

Yep. This event seems to be the equivalent of Pat Buchanan winning the '92 New Hampshire primary.

[Huck]

M. Le Pen is a nationalist and a socialist -- or, if you prefer, a nationalist socialist. Hmm. A bit long but, if you lost a syllable, you might be in business.

LOL

[Brian Allen]

the sick man of Europe ... [Is manifest in] the urbane Continental princelings like Chirac and Michel, gliding from capital to capital building their Eutopia, oblivious to the popular will except on those rare occasions, such as Sunday, when the people do something so impertinent they finally catch the eye of their haughty maître d'.....

To the list of polities destined to slip down the Eurinal of history, we must add the [USSRe -- United Soviet Socialist Republics of eurinal] -- and France's Fifth Republic.

[maica]

Pokey, please put me on your Ping! list for Steyn. His writings are graduate level tutorials in geo-politics. It is so frustrating that he states the obvious, but so few in the media are willing to say the same things.

[backhoe]

Still, despite the racism and bigotry, I resent the characterization of M. Le Pen as "extreme right." I'm an extreme right-wing madman myself, and it takes one to know one....

D@mn Right!

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[July 4th]

gliding from capital to capital building their Eutopia

That word is definitely going to work its way into my writings. Bump for Steyn!

[Lent]

Another "Extreme-Right" socialist. So many of them out there these hybrids.

[Pokey78]

Done.

[zeugma]

President Chirac, has declared himself the representative of "the soul of the Republic." In the sense that he's a shifty dissembler with a long history of financial scandal and no political principles, he may be on to something.

This is an absolute classic quote. I'd like to frame it.

[Colonel_Flagg]

A grand slam for Steyn .. this is a recording :)