"Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys" on Fox

[Fly320s]

Fox News just used the phrase "Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys" while discussing our French friends.

Apparantly, Chirac was upset about the negative attitude he has been receiving from the U.S. He used that phrase as an example.

So, which one of you have been emailing Fox News and Chirac? C'mon, I know it was a THRer.

Good job, who ever you are.

 

[gryphon]

I love that phrase. I have been using it more and more in my daily life. Althoughg I'd like to take the credit for sending something like that to Fox, it wasn't me.

 

[hops]

Watching FOX News Sunday this am, my guess it was Brit Hume himself. He was really hard on France and their Foreign minister. Made various unflattering comments about the Foreign Minister alone.

John 'the manchurian candidate' Mc Cain was on and seemed coherent. Guess he is taking is anti-manchurian candidate medicine as perscribed. He also went to great lengths to differentiate France from Germany in their seemingly unsuportive stance, pointing out several times where Germany is supportive of U.S. efforts in that region.

But Brit Hume was unrelenting on the French today. WOW. I laughed a lot.

 

[DeltaElite]

The French look just like this.

 

[gun-fucious]

Well, Heck,
Willie the Janitor popularized it when he was a substitute French Teacher on the Simpsons

so it is a Fox thing


who wants a shirt?

 

[Gewehr98]

The phrase is popular.

Saw it here:

 

[BamBam-31]

My buddy did a google search for "French military victories."

It's response: "No matches found. Did you mean 'French military defeats?'"

No lie. Try it. Just thought I'd get that in there before the axe falls....

 

[Mike Irwin]

Well, not quite, BamBam.

But you do get something VERY interesting...

There's obviously been a LOT of traffic on the subject the last couple of weeks...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q="french+military+victories"

 

[scottgun]

I was going to paste that google screen shot here, but was unsuccessful, d'oh, should have tried it in the testing section first.

The French make it very easy to be the butt of a lot of jokes.

 

[capt_happypants]

The phrase was first used in a "Simpson's" episode about five years ago. For a long time, "cheese-eating surrender monkey" was a long-running joke with National Review Online's Jonah Goldberg, who would celebrate Bastille Day with a CESM-bashing column.

CESM has been used in many gun forums: Glocktalk, TFL, ar15.com, assaultweb.com, but has only been picked up by the mainstream media within the last month or so.

I, for one, take great pride in spreading the CESM meme around. I was bashing the French before it was the in-thing to do.

 

[Cactus]

Originally posted by BamBam-31:

My buddy did a google search for "French military victories."

It's response: "No matches found. Did you mean 'French military defeats?'"

Well they did win the French Revolution. I guess BOTH sides just couldn't get that white flag up at the same time!

 

[gun-fucious]

http://www.cafeshops.com/fdafrench

 

[charlie d]

How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris?
Nobody knows, they have never tried it.

The French have just ordered a new national flag.
It's a white cross on a white background.

Why did the French plant trees on the Champs Elysées?
So the Germans could march in the shade.

Where can you find 60 million French jokes?
In France.

What's the difference between a Wonderbra and the
French World Cup squad?
A Wonderbra has decent support - and a cup.

Going to war without the French
is like going fishing without an accordion.

Define confusion. Father's Day in Paris.

What is the first thing you are taught when joining the
French army?
To say "I surrender" in German.

Why was Jesus not born in France?
Because they couldn't find three wise men or a virgin.

Why do the French eat snails?
It gives them speedier reactions.

A British, American and French soldier were offered a
wish each by a genie
after rubbing a lamp they found while training in the
desert. The British
soldier said: "I want to be in the Bahamas with a 'Page
3' girl." The
American said: "I want to be in Hawaii with a hula
dancer and a crate of
beer." After they were whisked off, the French soldier
thought for a moment
and said: "I wish the Brit and American were here to
help me decide."

Jacques Chirac walked into a bar with a parrot on his
head and the landlord
said: "How did that happen?" The parrot said: "It all
started as a little
pimple on my bottom."

When East and West Germany got back together there were
talks to relocate
the capital city back to Paris.

What's the difference between a Frenchwoman and
werewolf? The Frenchwoman
is not quite as hairy but the werewolf smells better.

In a rare show of bravery, a French soldier answered an
order from his commanding officer and ran out on to the field of
battle - in the line of fire - to retrieve a despatch case from a dead soldier
and dashed back to his HQ. The officer said: "I'm recommending you for a
medal for risking your life to save the details of the locations of our secret
warehouses." "Warehouses?" said the soldier. "Sacré bleu! I thought
you said whorehouses."

Why don't the French like the fireworks at Disneyland
Paris?
Because every time they go off, people start trying to
surrender.