About William Maher
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Update : following the Friday April 3rd monologue by William Maher where jokes were made about the supposed non-cleanliness of the French, we have no choice but to put an immediate end to this endeavour. We sincerely apologize to our community.
While some may not agree with Bill Maher’s libertarian politics, his support for PETA or his anti-religious stance, nobody stood up for France and the French during the era of French Bashing with more force and conviction. Bill Maher took the Republican Party head on and voiced serious and structured criticism of their Anti-French rhetoric.
The “initiative citoyenne” legislation for the Legion of Honor was not designed for foreign citizens, however we believe that using a similar process should be initiated and forwarded to the Ambassador of France in Washington.
To petition the French government, you must be a French citizen. We will need your name, date and place of birth, your postal address and phone number, your consular registration number if applicable. This information will not be shared with anyone except the French government and their consular agents.
More information on the Legion of Honor – L’initiative citoyenne
More information on Bill Maher – Wikipedia [fr] – Wikipedia [en] – BillMaher.com
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April 5th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Mark Shields is, flat out, a very nice guy. He is also one of the most honest commentators I’ve seen.
April 6th, 2009 at 3:12 am
Just a minute! You mean that it wasn’t an April’s Fool?
April 6th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Miquelon is a great webbsite with easy fonts to reference information. It needs to be used more and word of mouth is not enough. Maybe an ad in the NYT or LAT or on CNN or MSNBC. All these and, of course, the Canadian Networks.
Anyway, Miquelon should receive recognition for being a pioneer with a lot of courage and common sense.
April 6th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Oh thanks ! I changed the front page of the site to the documented French bashing I often need to access.
Advertising is very expensive, I’ve done the research for tourisme and – egads ! Expensive !
Thanks for your kind words.
April 7th, 2009 at 8:24 am
Marc,
Does this mean the petition to award Legion of Honour to Bill Maher is now withdrawn?
Thanks.
April 8th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Off subject, you need to add to your list of French-bashing resturants the following:
Brownies
Tulsa, OK
Owner detests France and all things French. Still uses “freedom fries” on his menu. For years he played bashing statements on the resturant’s window.
You could place the Rogers County (OK) chief judge who stiil wants to “Nuke” Paris on your nut list.
September 11th, 2009 at 2:12 am
[...] reason enough to get HBO and his show is still well worth considering despite the terrible opening monologues that make Jay Leno sound like Richard [...]
May 31st, 2010 at 1:38 am
Bill Maher must get his reward,he is one ” Hell” of a guy, tell it like it is,he has character, too bad only can be seen on HBO, no one else has the guts
to give him his own show, what are they afraid of ???? THE TRUTH.
I will help, what can I do to get it done.