I'd like to send a sarcastic thank you to the Globe and Mail for running the article "Tories and Bloc poised for modest gains in snap election" with a comic strip of Stephen Harper dressed as Napoleon Bonaparte with the outstretched arm of the Nazi salute. Boy oh boy, that is fair and balanced news coverage. I suppose that's what happens when you appoint Jane Taber to "set the agenda". Sure, saying anything about the Ignatieff family's service to the regime of the Russian Czar is an attack on families, but depicting our Prime Minister as a French Nazi, that's fair game.
Uh, young man, a few minutes with Wikipedia history pages is prescribed. "French Nazis"?!? And then off to youtube for you to look at a real Nazi salute. Finally, to many - not all French citizens - comparing Napoleon to Hitler is beyond offensive.
ReplyDeleteFrench Nazis - Vichy government in France
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- 33. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS Charlemagne (französische Nr. 1)
It's a dopey cartoon, but you need to brush up on your history, my friend.
ReplyDeleteUh, he's POINTING...
ReplyDeleteSorry, Kursk. Any recent revisionist French history for your homework. Collaboration is not the same as comradeship, else the English language would have had not need for the word quisling, would it.
ReplyDeletePolitical cartoons are not "news coverage," they are commentary and reflect the views of the cartoonist. Always have, always will.
ReplyDeleteÍ'm not making any historical reference to "French Nazis". I'm not calling Napoleon a Nazi. They just had a cartoon attached to a political news article that dressed up our PM as Napoleon and gave him the outstretched arm. You mistakenly read more into what I wrote than what was intended.
ReplyDeleteIf you zoom in, maybe you can see that he's pointing, but in the small size that it appeared on the Globe's Politcs Page, you really couldn't tell the difference.
I'm not claiming anything about historical "French Nazis". I'm not trying to start a debate about WWII. The cartoonist dressed him up in a French uniform and made him look like a Nazi. That's all I'm saying.
Relax.
Ice - I don't think you're crazy. I see you as being sarcastic. And I smiled at the end of your post, simply because I can see where you're coming from. I too, am an eternal smart-ass... keep up the good work.
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