Is there a specific word conservatives commonly use to insult the French?

[Onlooker]

Traitors? Snobs? something else?

Thanks.

[radwriter0555]

1. huh? what for? the french haven't done anything wrong.. why insult

an entire country?

France's government is easily one of the most successful and progressive on the planet.

LOVE the cheese.

[wicket]

2. "Frogs"

Though I've heard more than just conservatives use it.

[JayS]

10. Why are they called frogs? n/t

n/t

[wicket]

12. Frogs

I've never really understood it myself, but this site has got some info on it.

[Guy_Montag]

15. Traditionally Frog's legs a delicacy in France.

[junker]

3. It's surrender-monkeys....do I get the prize?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

5. Wasn't that from a Simpsons episode?

And from there on it grew.

[ComerPerro]

8. Yeah, from an episode of the Simpsons

Principal Skinner is talking about budget cuts and how times are tough, and then it cuts to Groundskeeper Willie teaching French.

"Bon- jjjjjouurrrr, ya cheese-eatin surrender monkeys!"


It was hilarious.

But, of course, FReepers have a knack for taking something that was just meant to be a joke and twisting into sick, hateful rhetoric.

[Warpy]

4. They use the word "French" to insult everybody n/t

[Nihil]

6. "English"?

:-)

[Sparkly]

7. Chocolate-makers and "old Europe" have been used

How embarassing conservatives are.

[outinforce]

9. I Can Think of Several

"Cowards"

"Ingrates"

"Hypocrites"

"Anti-Semites"

Although I have also heard these terms used by people other than conservatives to insult the French.

[Bridget Burke]

11. Not all conservatives insult the French.

Not those who can afford summer homes in the South of France. Not those who send their women to shop in Paris--or to buy French fashions in the USA.

Neil Bush sent his intended & her children to France while the scandals of their respective divorces died down in Houston. Then he proposed to her at a romantic dinner in a secluded chateau. (Reading the Houston Chronicle society columnist reveals more detail about these people than I really ought to know.)

They let members of the lower-classes embarrass themselves with "freedom fries".

[yellowcanine]

13. The real reason conservatives insult the French is that they view the

French as intellectuals. And there is nothing conservatives hate more than intellectuals.

[Killarney]

14. They call them "cheese eating surrender monkeys"

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