Just today, Les Guignols did a sketch of Rumsfeld's town-hall-style meeting in Kuwait (merci, V8), in which the Canal + puppeteers introduced us to their typically refined and sophisticated humor, in this case of two American soldiers (both portrayed by Sylvester Stallone puppets) complaining that 1) they don't have tape-players in their vehicles so they don't have to hear Iraqi children screaming as they (the GIs) massacre the country's entire population and 2) that their weaponry is not strong enough to raze the entire country so that they can all go home.
In case you don't spend too much time with the comments section (either on this blog or in general), be sure to check out AF's hyperlinks which point out the similarity between today's anti-Americanism and yesterday's anti-Semitism (something I already pointed out while analyzing Canal +'s Guignols, justement), in which supposedly rational, sophisticated, level-headed, progressive, forward-looking, and secular individuals equate foreign bodies with all that is negative and revolting, even with evil and deviltry (e.g., snakes). While you're at it, follow AF's link to the type of stomach-churning photos from Iraq that French humorists (at Canal + or elsewhere), for some reason, do not spend much time dwelling about…
Oh, and do you remember
one visitor's ironic comments about Washington infamously playing host to Pakistan's strongman? (Reply here) Turns out that immediately after visiting Washington, Pervez Musharraf headed for… Paris. But given that it is only Uncle Sam that must be castigated, criticized, caricatured, and mocked at all times, you should not expect Paprika and his ilk to leave their usual type of nasty comments on webs like this one (or anywhere else for that matter)…
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