[StatesEnemy]

...it was hateful and, yes, racist.

Since when are the French a "race"?

[bvw]

Well, since this was humor by one species against another, that's not racist, that's speciesist.

[Reactionary]

The little knee-jerk liberals don't really have a tidy mental box for this one, so they've adopted the most convenient idiocy they can imagine.

It's racist for a puppet to call an effete liberal idiot names.

[katana]

The English Canadians I know are sick and tired of having had to kowtow to the Quebecois for going on forty years (ever since the Pierre Trudeau days) and in private they tell pretty good jokes about the French, so I'm not at all surprised that O'Brian's Toronto audience went crazy with laughter. It's a release from the PC straightjacket.

That being said, compared with the jokes they tell about Newfies (Newfoundlanders) any that I've heard them tell about the frog princes are pretty mild. It's amazing people with such thin skins could stand living in such a cold climate.

[hgro]

Since when are the French a "race"?

They lost the race!!

[Cronos]

By Dictionary Definitions, the French, Germans, English etc. constitute different races.