Owens' Jokes Get Gonged: Remarks at Mich. event offend Francophiles, embassy officials

The Denver Post ^ | May 25, 2004 | Susan Greene

[inflation]

I was mistaken. But, I bet and 'i'm sorry if I offended anyone' will be comming out in the next 1-2 days.

I hope I am wrong.

[CR]

OLD they are. Oldies but Goodies.

Got any new ones you would like to share?

[Paul Atreides]

Does ANYONE in the GOP have a backbone??

John McCain does. He will screw over the Republican Party multiple times and not back down once.

[highlander_UW]

"You know why they planted those big trees along the boulevard in Paris? So the invading armies could march in the shade."

A bit harsh, but the Nazis enjoyed the shade. And the Americans who freed France enjoyed that shade as well.

[Tacis]

Geez, I hope the Gov. didn't mention the new French aircraft carrier. They can't get the coal fired engines to work properly.

[TheBigB]

I think this is very definitely worth a RPR ping. P.J. himself called the French a "smallish, monkey-looking bunch." Enjoy!

PING to the newly-created REPUBLICAN PARTY REPTILE ping list, named after our spiritual founder, P.J. O'Rourke. What is the Republican Party Reptile? It is a creature of the eighties. It’s neoconservatism with its pants down around its ankles, the Rehnquist Supreme Court on drugs, a disco Hobbes living without shame or federally mandated safety regulations. The Republican Party Reptile supports a strong defense policy, but sees no reason to conduct it while sober. The RPR believes in minimum government interference in private affairs—unless the government brings over extra girls and some ice. In short, the RPR is the new label that our political spectrum has been crying out for—the conservative with a sense of humor and a healthy dose of depravity.

[WOSG]

Let them first clean their own house...

and stop the virulently Anti-American attitude of their own media, leaders, etc.

Dissident Frogman has the goods - great site:

http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Owens for president !

[Corporate Law]

Lighten up, France.

Bill Owen in 2008.

[dcar99]

Paris - April 8, 2004 - French Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Lafontaine announced today that, due to the recent terrorist bombings in Spain, France's Terror Alert Level has been raised from "Run" to "Hide." Mr. Lafontaine further added that if the bombings continue, the Terror Alert Level would be increased to "Surrender and collaborate."

[BykrBayb]

"As an entrepreneur myself, your governor certainly wouldn't make me want to locate a company in Colorado," said Michael LaVean, a Michigan resident who has lived in France and took offense at Owens' humor.

Looks like it worked! But you know we'll have all those save-the-frog people coming out of the woodwork to keep them here.

[dcar99]

The French have agreed to send help to Iraq. Not with the actual fighting but to help with the establishment of the new government. The French would like to send in document shredding teams.

[E Rocc]

I think this is very definitely worth a RPR ping. P.J. himself called the French a "smallish, monkey-looking bunch."

That was the polite part:

French:

Sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. They take filthy pictures of each other with cheap cameras, wash nothing but their ****s, fight with their feet, and perform sex acts with their faces. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.

(Warning: naughty language on the link)

-Eric

[mountaineer]

She admonished Colorado's two-term governor for "uselessly practicing French bashing for the purpose of playing politics."

Oh pshaw, French bashing is never useless, and practice makes perfect!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

You can't tell the truth without offending someone!

Sensitivity training alert!
Harassment training alert!

[Tamzee]

The French can give Michael Moore an award for the most rabidly poisonous anti-Bush film and absurdly false "documentary"... and yet they get their truffles in a twist because a Republican cracked a joke about their less than stellar battle history.

[Reagan Man]

I don't think Bill Owens will be apologizing for his remarks about Frenchie.

[inflation]

I was wrong, just read down some more and you can see me eat crow ;->

[<1/1,000,000th%]

LOL!

[musical_airman]

Wow, funny funny stuff.......and just wrong in so many ways...I love it! It's nice to see that therre are places where PC hasn't killed comedy.