Who's on First?

Even Le Monde has to admit that Uncle Sam is the largest contributor of aid to victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami…

…although France's newspaper of reference did try to do that surreptitiously, by hiding that information inside Jean-Pierre Langellier's article devoted to the fact that Great Britain is the second-largest contributor of aid to tsunami victims (!)…

Two days later (only), Eric Leser does have a piece on the size of the American contribution but, needless to say, it is replete with criticism. And when Andrew Natsios tells Fox News that France, in turn, can hardly be called a major contributor of aid (as compared with Britain, Japan, the EU, Canada, and Australia), of course, the independent newspaper must devote the entire last paragraph to the French response to that charge, and to the French ambassador's putting Washington's motivations into question…

Meanwhile, Plantu's love-in with the United Nations — the paragon of virtue, the bastion of legality, and the epitome of efficiency — continues…
(Click here for a list of aid groups accepting donations for the victims…)