(Hat tip tomP)
Update: And here's how German and French leaders displayed their affection in the past (Kohl-Mitterand; Adenauer-de Gaulle).
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The Debate
- "In much of Europe's public debate, the true meaning of human rights has degenerated into a tool that gives anti-Americanism an aura of legitimacy. The real, horrendous human-rights violations in the Middle East, North Korea, China, Cuba, etc., are largely ignored or relegated to news blurs on the back pages. For front-page coverage, you need an American angle." ---The Wall Street Journal
- "I discovered that European social democracy, too, was a kind of fundamentalism, rigid and doctrinaire, yielding what Swedish writer Johan Norberg calls "one-idea states"—nations where an echo chamber of insular elites calls the shots, where monochrome media daily reiterate statist mantras and shut out contrarian views, and where teachers and professors systematically misrepresent the U.S. (millions of Europeans believe that free public schools, unemployment insurance, and pensions are unknown in America). The more I saw of the European elites' chronic distrust of the public, and the public's habitual deference to those elites, the fonder I grew of the nasty, ridiculous rough-and-tumble of American democracy..." ---Bruce Bawer
- "In the European media as well as on the public stage, prizes and publicity go overwhelmingly to Americans who serve as witnesses against their own government and nation. (...) The defense mechanism is simple enough: "After all, they are saying this, too, so how can we be accused of anti-Americanism?" A similar phenomenon attaches itself to Israel, where "post-" or anti-Zionist spokesmen are given top billing in the European media." ---Josef Joffe
- "The point is to be aware that for many of the foreigners issuing what they claim to be "simply constructive criticism", the evidence shows that criticizing America is all they do, criticizing America is all they ever have done, and criticizing America is all they ever will do." ---Erik Svane, Americans Anonymous
- "To get an impression, take a look at David's Medienkritik, a Web log in English dedicated, among other things, to exposing biased reporting on the United States in the German media. Be it stories about the war in Iraq, the conduct of U.S. soldiers abroad, American reservations regarding the Kyoto Protocol and the International Criminal Court or even the Katrina disaster, more often than not the German public is presented with a distorted picture. There are laudable exceptions. But generally the blows are low, and the public is left to form its opinion base on half-truths and false analyses." ---Julian Knapp
- "Negative sentiments and views have been driven not only - or even primarily - by what the United States does, but rather by an animus against what Europeans have believed that America is. While the politics, style, and discourse of the Bush terms - and of President Bush as a person - have undoubtedly exacerbated anti-American sentiment among Europeans and fostered a heretofore unmatched degree of unity between elite and mass opinion in Europe, they are not anti-Americanism's cause. Indeed, a change to a center-left administration in Washington, led by a Democratic president, would not bring about its abatement, let alone its disappearance." ---Andrei Markovits
- "Anti-Americanism is hypocrisy at its finest. You can spend your evening catching the latest episode of "24" and then complain about Guantanamo the next morning. You can claim that the Americans have themselves to blame for terrorism, while at the same time calling for tougher restrictions on Muslim immigration to Germany. You can call the American president a mass murderer and book a flight to New York the next day. You can lament the average American's supposed lack of culture and savvy and meanwhile send off for the documents for the Green Card lottery. Not a day passes in Germany when someone isn't making the wildest claims, hurling the vilest insults or spreading the most outlandish conspiracy theories about the United States. But there's no risk involved and it all serves mainly to boost the German feeling of self-righteousness." ---C.C. Malzahn
- "The protests against nuclear weapons, for instance, concentrated on American weapons. The anti-war rallies were against American-led wars. The anti death penalty campaign focused on Texas. A pattern was emerging and has never seriously been altered. A pattern of willingness to condemn America for the tiniest indiscretion - or to magnify those indiscretions - while leaving the murderers, dictators, and thieves who run other nations oddly untouched." ---Justin Webb
- The fundamental role of anti-Americanism in Europe in general, and particularly among those on the Left, is to absolve themselves of their own moral failings and intellectual errors by heaping them onto the monster scapegoat, the United States of America. For stupidity and bloodshed to vanish from Europe, the U.S. must be identified as the singular threat to democracy (contrary to every lesson of actual history)." ---Jean-François Revel
- "In five years there will be a different President and Iraq will likely be pacified. That would naturally have impacts on the strength of the resentments that have fixed themselves onto certain individuals in the present situation. But beneath the surface smolder the long-burning embers of latent anti-Americanism. It has a long tradition and will remain, also when President Bush is no longer in office and Palestine is peaceful." ---Lutz Erbring
- "A writer for the German weekly Der Spiegel told me during the Iraq debate not to take offense at the crude anti-American covers of the magazine such as the ugly, bearded, drooling Rambo figure it used to show the typical GI in Iraq. 'We're just trying to please our million readers,' he explained." ---Jeff Gedmin
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- "To David-- An army of you! Keep that slingshot ready!" Glenn Reynolds
- "The best blog on German politics" Andrew Sullivan
- "For daily commentary on the hostile German press, we direct you to Davids Medienkritik which we recommend reading on a regular basis." Geopolitical Review
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- "David's Medienkritik is an essential read for a perspective on the European media."
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Feel the love ...
Posted by: Schulz | June 08, 2004 at 11:54 PM
That's the first time I've seen Schroeder's face ever display any sort of emotion. Historic moment.
Posted by: SleepyInSeattle | June 08, 2004 at 11:58 PM
So the question arises: Are Chirac and Schroeder two hyper-sweety Gayboys? ;-)
The news give me right!
Germany to allow same-sex marriages
Ben Aris in Berlin
Tuesday June 8, 2004
The Guardian
Germany's justice minister has vowed to introduce legislation to permit same-sex marriages before the end of the summer, overriding the objections of the country's powerful conservative lobby.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,2763,1233596,00.html
Gay couple to marry in France
A mayor in south-western France will perform the country's first gay wedding amid a media frenzy and despite government threats that he would be punished legally.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/05/1086377186761.html
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All right? Oh, no, i don't a Anti-Gay, but i find this story very very delightful ;D
Posted by: Downer | June 09, 2004 at 01:19 AM
Ummmm...Jaques, what is that sticking into my thigh?
Posted by: Oktober | June 09, 2004 at 01:28 AM
Is that a brutwurst in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
Posted by: Stacy | June 09, 2004 at 02:11 AM
Wow, Orlando Bloom (Paris) and Brad Pitt (Achilles).
Okay: Gerhard BEAN http://www.remalia.com/mrbean/images/mr-bean-mr-bean-4001130.jpg
Posted by: Alexander Schmidt | June 09, 2004 at 03:08 AM
Schröder sagt laut einigen Nachrichtenagenturen, Bush habe Verständnis dafür, daß Deutschland keine Soldaten in den Irak entsenden werde. "Aber wir sind bereit, uns am Wiederaufbau zu beteiligen... und wir tun das bereits."
Der Witz ist, daß die USA NIE Truppen von Deutschland wollten, nie nach militärischer Hilfe gefragt haben, nie die Deutschen fürs Militärische brauchten, daß es nur um EINHEITLICHES Handeln ging. Da braucht niemand zu triumphieren. Wenn das neue deutsche Weltpolitik ist, können wir uns bald nur noch verstecken - hinter Chiracs breiter Schulter. Diese Kuschelumarmung, diese Umklammerung von Schröder war peinlich. Es wäre angemessen gewesen, mit Demut dazustehen. Diese Historie können wir nur mit Demut bewältigen, um ein NIE WIEDER sagen zu können. Ein Schlußstrich ohne Demut ist fatal für die nächste Generation.
Posted by: Gabi | June 09, 2004 at 07:28 AM
Chirac's right hand has got Schröder by the balls: literally and figuratively!
Posted by: James | June 09, 2004 at 09:56 AM
Thank you for the picture of Mitterand and Kohl! I still find it moving how they were holding their hands. A great moment in history!
Posted by: Gabi | June 09, 2004 at 11:34 AM
Deutsche Journalisten machen sich ja gerne über Bushs Versprecher lustig, aber auch bei Schröder kann man fündig werden. Ich lese gerade in der Financial Times dieses:
"Die USA und Deutschland stimmten inzwischen völlig darin überein, dass man andere "nicht bevormunden und ihnen die eigenen Werte aufoktroyieren darf", sagte der Kanzler."
Es zeigt, daß der deutsche Bundeskanzler die deutsche Sprache mit ihren "schwierigen" Fremdwörtern nicht beherrscht. Offensichtlich hat er auf dem zweiten Bildungsweg nicht gelernt, daß es zwar Aufdrängen und Oktroyieren gibt, aber ein AUFoktroyieren ist eigentlich nicht korrekt. Basta.
Daß so viele deutsche Journalisten über Bushs angebliche Dummheit und schlichte Sprache die Nase rümpfen, wundert mich angesichts der ständigen sprachlichen Schnitzern bei den Rot/Grünen. Gerade in der SPD sind viele ohne qualifizierte Schulausbildung und sprechen ziemlich schlicht. Ich fände es daneben, wenn sich unsere Journalisten damit beschäftigen würden und wünsche mir, sie würden es auch bei Bush unterlassen und sich mehr auf seine Politik konzentrieren. Mit unseren Politikern haben wir absolut keinen Grund über sprachliche Fehler anderer Politiker aus anderen Ländern zu lachen. Ich finde das ziemlich armselig.
Posted by: Gabi | June 09, 2004 at 11:58 AM
"Japaner verklagt Regierung in Tokio. Er meint, diese für seine Geiselhaft verantwortlich, da sie mit der Entsendung von Truppen nach Irak die Entführer verärgert hätte" -
Scheint eine weltweite Erkrankung zu sein! :-)
Posted by: Gabi | June 09, 2004 at 01:53 PM
Who said that weasels don't mate in the daylight?
Posted by: N. Hale | June 09, 2004 at 06:57 PM
Someone appears to be trying to play "hide the Andouille"...
Posted by: Joe2 | June 09, 2004 at 07:24 PM
Well, if you love Schroeder and Chirac so much you will go crazy about this stuff: ;)
http://www.cafeshops.com/chiracschroeder
Posted by: jo | June 10, 2004 at 04:12 AM
The word is out that Chirac has snubbed the Reagan funeral in Washington even though he is already here in the U.S.
Personally, I think that Jacque and Gerry are secretly going to Boston to get married. If Jacque is stood up by Gerry at the alter, he can call Ben Aflack, who is in a Boston hospital with "bronchitis."
Posted by: George M | June 10, 2004 at 06:11 AM
Creepiest picture of the year. But I'm glad Quasimodo finally found a mate among the gargoyles.
Posted by: David Govett | June 10, 2004 at 08:15 AM
@gabi Offensichtlich hat er auf dem zweiten Bildungsweg nicht gelernt, daß es zwar Aufdrängen und Oktroyieren gibt, aber ein AUFoktroyieren ist eigentlich nicht korrekt. Basta.
selbstverständlich gibt es das wort 'aufoktroyieren' (synonym to 'oktroyieren', wahrig, deutsches wörterbuch, hier: ausgabe von 1991, von "eigentlich nicht korrekt" steht da nichts). wenn sie sich schon über jemanden lustig machen müssen, recherchieren sie doch wenigstens gründlich.
Posted by: no comment | June 10, 2004 at 09:40 AM
Spiegel-Online hat derweil auf ein neues Topic umgeswicht:
"Irak - die zersplitterte Nation":
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,k-4025,00.html
Damit hofft man anscheinend, mehr Besucher auf ihe Site zu locken...
Posted by: Downer | June 10, 2004 at 07:59 PM
@Downer
Davids Medienkritik hat derweil auf ein neues Topic umgeswicht:
"Weasel Reunion":
http://medienkritik.typepad.com/blog/2004/06/weasel_reunion.html
Damit hofft man anscheinend, noch mehr inhaltsleere Kommentare auf ihe Site zu locken...
Posted by: jo | June 10, 2004 at 10:44 PM
I know that the media has had lots of excuses for "journalistic"
coverage of pornography in recent years, but this is ridiculous...
Posted by: Foobarista | June 11, 2004 at 04:17 AM