At Least they Didn’t Misspell Our Names

Actually, the Economist didn’t mention our names at all, but it was obvious whom they were talking about, at least in part. Writing about American reaction to the “No” vote on the EU Constitution in France, the Economist said:

Many conservatives broke their self-imposed embargo on French products to pop the champagne. The grand non didn’t just mean the humiliation of Mr Chirac, the grand fromage in the Axis of Weasel. It meant the humiliation of a political class that has been a thorn in the side of America since the second world war. Right-wing blogs crowed about the imminent collapse of Eurosocialism. One even produced a map of the

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