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From Armed Prophet via Instapundit, via Merde in France, the dissident frogman, oscillating between amusement and stupefaction, learned that Mr. Chirac received a phone call last week from "France's most loved American funnyman", namely Jerry Lewis, where he discussed freely serious issues such as Saddam Hussein and the war in Iraq.Problem is, it wasn't Jerry Lewis on the phone, but Ralph Garman from the ''Kevin and Bean Show''.
So what? Any smooth-tongued smartass (no offense intended to Ralph Garmancan - on the contrary, three cheers for his talent) can give a phone call to the President of the French Republic, claim he's Jerry Lewis, de Gaulle's ghost, bin Laden's mummy or Saddam Hussein's carrion and start discussing world affairs with the man who has the power to authorize the use of France's nuclear arsenal?
Yes, maybe. As far as the aforementioned President is Jacques Chirac.
While we're at it, let's see what some people wrote or said about Slapstick Wormsey:
Marie-France Garaud, Wormsey's eminence grise for years:And my personal favorite, for the quote and its author:
"I thought Chirac was made of the same marble of which statues are carved in, I perceive he's of the same faience bidets are made of."
Simone Veil, in 1995:
"Chirac in power, it's much worse than Socialism. It's the Elysée transferred rue de Lille at the RPR's main office (tDf note: Chirac's former party). It's the illiterate buddies in the ministries. It's the country overcharged, fleeced."
Charles Pasqua, in 1995 too:
"Chirac has no personal ideas. He only has ideas people whisper to him, and those of the last one who talked, actually."
Valery Giscard d'Estaing in 2002:
Chirac ? "a perpetual inconstant"
" Raymond Aron:Yes, that's the man the whole political spectrum, from the worst leftists to the most nauseating lepenists, including the inapt and inept Socialists and of course, Mr. Chirac's Party Unique, as well as - so we are told - 86% of the French public, support and admire for his "firm" and "courageous" "stance" in front of the "evil America".
"Chirac has an encyclopedic ignorance."
After all, one has the models and heroes one deserves and Mr. Chirac is the perfect match for this fin-de-siecle France.Oddly enough, this
It reminds us, as well, that even though we don't like war by itself, its path has to be taken sometimes when looking for peace.
And that's precisely what brave men and women under the US, British and Australian flag (and those of roughly 42 other nations) are doing for us right now.
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