Paul Johnson, best known for engaging in sexual intercourse with a spongmonkey
Paul Johnson, last featured on this website here, writes:
Jacques Chirac reacted by appointing as prime minister Dominque [sic] de Villepin, a frivolous playboy who has never been elected to anything and is best known for his view that Napoleon should have won the Battle of Waterloo and continued to rule Europe.
When you’re busing writing uninformed polemic, you don’t even know what you’re shooting at anymore. de Villepin is known for a few other things as well:
After a stint as foreign minister at the Quai d’Orsay, Mr de Villepin was appointed interior minister in March 2004 and tackled radical Islam head-on.
His crackdown on militancy has included tighter security controls and making it a requirement for the country’s imams to take courses on the language, laws and customs of France.
“We need a strong policy to combat radical Islam,” he said in December 2004.
“It is used as a breeding-ground for terrorism. We cannot afford not to watch them very closely.”
Yeah, that sounds just like the kind of guy conservatives hate.
Johnson, secure in the knowledge that, unlike Senator Durbin, he won’t be called on preposterous comparisons, adds:
In fact, for an entire generation, the EU has gone in the opposite direction and created a totalitarian monster of its own, spewing out regulations literally by the million and invading every corner of economic and social life. […] Above all, r?glementation of national economies on a totalitarian scale. [Emphasis added, and can someone actually count the number of EU regulations?]
Conservatives somehow never seem to get their heads around the concept that for all its faults, the EU has walked the walk and talked the talk when it comes to creating a single market for goods, capital and labor. Let’s see when NAFTA gets half as far.
Johnson isn’t quite dead yet:
It is now stagnant. Growth rates of over 2% are rare, except in Britain, which was Thatcherized in the 1980s and has since followed the American model of free markets. Slow or nil growth, aggravated by the power of the unions, fits well with the Brussels system and imposes further restraints on economic dynamism[.]
Luckily, we’ve covered this one before and the answer, as always, is Sadly, No!:
Britain’s economy is expected to grow by 2.2% in 2005. Sweden’s by 3%, Finland’s by 2.7%, Denmark’s by 2.3%, Greece’s by 3.5%, Ireland’s by 3.3%, Luxembourg’s by 2.3%, and, well, you get the picture. (link)
By the way: we’re Sadly, No! and we don’t claim to be anything more than a profanity-filled website of gay anti-American communists — but does the WSJ really think that calling the French PM a “frivolous playboy” constitutes the kind of conservative commentary the world needs?
Johnson link thanks to Roger Ailes — and yes, Mr. Johnson may have another.
By the way: we’re Sadly, No! and we don’t claim to be anything more than a profanity-filled website of gay anti-American communists
And we’re still so, so much smarter than WSJ op-ed writers 😉
Unrelated, but Seb, I found your
missing dog. Is there some reward for this?
Golly- a president from the nation’s right-wing party appointing some worthless silver spoon with idiotic views and no experiance to an important government position?
I’ve never heard that one before.
I see Seb is back and writing about boring European stuff (sorry about the redundancy there) again, instead of writing about Mary Carey’s sexual fantasies as Brad R. does. More interesting than Seb’s post is the article Hemlock Echo links, the opening paragraphs of which are:
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A puppy with six legs and two penises was found sleeping outside a Chinese temple in a Malaysian town, and devotees are treating the freak find as a good omen, a news report said Sunday.
The furry puppy with brown patches was sleeping at the temple entrance on Thursday morning when it was spotted by a temple caretaker, said the Star newspaper, which published the animal’s picture clearly showing the extra two legs and the additional organ. Tragically, the L.A. Times doesn’t have any pictures of the two-sex-organed sexuped (to coin a term).In all serious, Seb, congratulations on the birth of your kid. You should really put some pictures up.
In all seriousness, that is.
Frederick: Your wish is my command. Apostropher has an image here.
Also, ditto on the congrats Seb. I got one of my own on the way any day now as well.
Well aside from his humiliation, and temporary withdrawel from inflamed commentary on the decline of moral behaviour in the west (when his dominatrix, finally being disgusted at his hypocriscy, revealed his fondness for being strapped down and whipped across his large, very pale butt by a lady definitely not his wife- although it’s never been clear if the lady in question got large tips for dressing in a Maggie Thatcher mask), Mr Johnson’s careful attention to detail shines forth when in his silly, toadying-to-the-American right history of America, he claimed that Thomas Edison invented the telephone.
Your average kid in grade six knows better than that.
Geoff- it was Ben Franklin, right?
S,N!- That was a really good 1, 2, 3 by the gang.
Apostropher has an image here.
Gah! It’s the End Times!
“His crackdown on militancy has included tighter security controls and making it a requirement for the country’s imams to take courses on the language, laws and customs of France.”
You’d think our right wing would be so all over that for US policy.
Saaaaaaaaay, maybe we should require our ‘radical Christian’ clergy to take courses on the language, laws and customs of places that are not the Mid-West or the Deep South.
you smell