When pundits call Sen. John Kerry 'French Looking', they mean

[0rganism]

Poll question: When pundits call Sen. John Kerry 'French Looking', they mean

[Scimmio]

1. an obvious pawn of Indochine Imperialists...

During one of the FOX news shows, probably morning, they were discussing Sen. Kerry.
"Isn't it funny, the way he talks."
"He's not an average-Joe. He calls his wife 'Tah-ray-zah', while the rest of Americans would pronounce it 'Te-reese-a'."

Is that the best they have? Well, he went to War for this country when all of the chicken hawks on the right were ducking military service or hoping a tour in the Guard would keep them out of Vietnam. They can't beat him on the flight-suit, cod-piece foto ops, so let's bring it down to "He calls his wife 'Tah-ray-zah".

Sadly, I remember when the FOX morning crew juxtaposed pics of Hans Blix and Homer Simpson and asked how we could ever trust that we would be safe from Saddam's clutches. Never underestimate the power of the Lowest Common Denominator.

[semass]

6. Had the Fox idiots done their homework...

they would know that Kerry's wife was a Portuguese national born in Mozambique and would have been christened Tah-ray-zah!

[Scimmio]

7. hmmm...

A Foreign National, a strong woman who could buy and sell most everyone on the right, except for old Rupert himself. Maybe they have someone to finally break the Hillary-Watch news cycle.

I'm sure we'll be hearing more about her funny name and scary background as the campaign moves along. Anything, just so long as they avoid discussing the amazing ranges of her Charities and her husband's military service. I'd figure they'll leave her former husband out of it, since he was a republican at the time of his death.

[Lexingtonian]

2. it's more insidious than that

It's a code phrase for "there's Jew in him".

[REP]

5. Oy Vey

His paternal grandfather was a Jew, but Judaism is a matrilineal religion - you "get" it from your mother, and his grandmother converted to Catholicism. I think it puts Kerry in a position that many products of 'mixed' marriages find themselves in - not Jewish enough for (some) Jews; too Jewish for (some) Christians. Even though most people couldn't care less about the religion of one's grandparents, it is sad to see that some in the other party try to smear this man with the 'taint' of Jewishness. More than sad, in fact; it's a little frightening.

[0rganism]

14. Oy Gevalt! Judaism is like a crack addiction!

Or a venereal disease...

Does it seem fair that, having a Jewish father and a Goy mother, while I am Jewish enough for the Nazis, I will never be accepted at the local temple? This reason alone was enough to stop me from going through with a bar mitz'vah.

On the other hand, a former co-worker is a convert to Judaism, and being a six-foot-tall Scot, fits in perfectly.

[oasis]

3. Jean Paul Kerry has a nice ring to it. President Kerry sounds even better.

:-)

[FDRrocks]

4. None of the above.

They just want to slander him. Bush looks moreso like an ape than Kerry like a stereotype frenchmen.

[JI7]

8. they mean elitist

they mean he is a "northeastern liberal elitist" with a rich foreign(naturalized american citizen) wife who has an accent. and he speaks french and gets expensive haircuts at "cristophe". but they almost never mention his service in the military and his work in public office afterwards, especially in the senate.

[jumptheshadow]

9. They are implying he's wimpy

The NY Post has run cartoons implying that the French are effeminate.

[Judi Lynn]

10. I heard Rush Limbaugh refer to him as "French looking"

Childish and retarded in a man, wouldn't you say? How odd to try to force people to see John Kerry as resembling the hated nationality of the day for the rightwingnuts.

I believe he strongly resembles Paddy Maloney, of the wonderful Irish group, The Chieftans.

Which one is Kerry, which one is Paddy Maloney, and which one is Rush Limbaugh?




guy in front

[OneTwentyoNine]

11. Gee..I guess Pigboy hasn't heard...

Chimpboy would suck some FRENCH dick if they would throw some money and troops into our "little skirmish". I think a line from a Sugarloaf song rings a bell when it comes to Smirk NOW wanting all this help and not wanting to go it alone in Iraq....


"Now he calls and begs and crawls,this is telephone deja vu"



David

[NewYorkerfromMass]

12. It's clearly guilt by association (3rd from bottom- blue band)

But I am afraid I must admit to having to look up "calumny". :spank:

[Enraged American]

13. Faux News is disgusting

They call him "French-looking" because they want the wingnut masses to associate Kerry with France. Kerry-France Kerry-France Kerry-France. Sort of like they did with this one: Saddam-911 Saddam 9-11 Saddam-911. They love to do this.

Anyways my French mother said Kerry is "very French." I guess she means that he is both sophisticated and very liberal. I would personally take "French-looking" as a compliment.

[0rganism]

15. Who started this "Kerry meme"?

Is it rooted in something Mr. Kerry himself said?

What's the backstory?

[spooky3]

19. me too.

Not to stereotype, but to me, Kerry looks less like the French than any of the candidates, based on my trips to France. Many, if not most, Caucasian French people are relatively (to Kerry) short, thin, small-boned, with brown eyes and brown hair.

[CBHagman]

16. Because his attackers are moronic , autocratic, plutocratic bigots

But other than that, they are perfectly DELIGHTFUL people. :evilgrin:

On edit: Can you imagine how they'll treat Kerry and Clark's Jewish ancestry?

[burr]

17. Am I alone???

I have yet to hear any pundit, cable or otherwise, say that John Kerry looks French!!! Maybe I have not been watching enough television, I shall watch some today just to see if any pundits suggest this.

And by the way, I am not defending the corporate media!!

[Judi Lynn]

18. If you include Rush Limbaugh in your definition of pundits

you'll be able to hear him hurl this charge against him repeatedly.

I've heard this twice and I don't listen to Rush deliberately, and heard this for myself simply being around a radio when Rush's show was playing.

That would mean in the times I've heard Rush in the last few weeks, he was gibbering about it 100% of the time I heard him.

[0rganism]

20. Until yesterday, I was with you

I was completely out of the "French looking" loop. Then I saw an editorial excerpt quote in the local rag about "French looking" Kerry, someone from opinionjournal.com. Right next to it, an Annthrax Coulter quote about "French looking" Kerry. So I started poking around on the web, and it's goddam everywhere. It's one of the neo-con approved memes, I guess.

Rush Limbaugh apparently doesn't even use Kerry's name, just calls him "The French Looking".

Odd.

I can't figure out what they're getting at, so I posted a poll here. Maybe I should ask in freeperville, instead?