Deliberate misinformation and miseducation takes place on both sides of the Pond, I'm afraid - I was always taught in school what a great and good friend France was to the US throughout our short 200+ year existance. It wasn't until I was out of school and allowed to learn and observe for myself what was the reality - that France has been "on our side" when it was profitable or necessary, but certainly never out of any feelings of sympathy, empathy, fraternity, or whathaveyou. The difference is, when the lie shows a positive side to a negative, you tend to believe it unless it is proven otherwise (As it was with me when I went one year to Paris, and no one would speak to me because they "couldn't" speak English - - - until I switched to German, which I speak fluently...then they offered to speak English because they weren't as well versed in German. My lesson in reality.) Hopefully, if the lie is a negative view of a positive, the listener will tend not to believe it unless proven to be so...
I really enjoy your blog. Please continue to fight the good fight!
Gina