Miquelon.org – The Fighting French

Update for Miquelon.org readers: we’re looking into ways to broadcast the event tomorrow night via a private page. I’ll update you in the next 24 hours.

**SNEAK PREVIEW** Educating Jay
Special Invite Closed Screening
Co-written and directed by Shannonn Kelly.
Music by Paul Stirling Taylor

Marc Cormier, the “Michael Moore” of French expatriates in North America would like to invite you to a sneak preview of “Educating Jay”. One French-bashing late night TV talk show host vs. One French columnist dedicated to exposing French-Bashing and Anti-French activity in  America. To paraphrase Howard Beale, he’s as mad as hell, and he’s not  going to take this anymore! Marc Cormier, media  watchdog ‘rottweiler at large’ travels on a 44 day road trip in one of  the hottest summers on record to confront Tonight Show host, Jay Leno  about his incessant French Bashing on late-night TV.  One  province, 13 states and 27 cities later he arrives on the doorstep of  NBC Studios to teach Jay Leno a history lesson. Will Jay get an “A” or  totally flunk out…?

• When : 9:15 PM – TUESDAY June 21
• Where : Theater 222, Innis College 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, U of T campus.
• Why : Because French People are Awesome!
• ReelHeART 2.011: www.reelheart.org

Miquelon.org is a watchdog group dedicated to documenting French-Bashing and Anti-French activity and monitoring the news and entertainment media. Miquelon.org has been featured or mentioned in many media outlets : Financial Times, AFP (Agence France Presse), Libération, TF1, KTTM Radio, Fox News Radio with Alan Colmes, Der Spiegel, and the Utne Web Watch.

Marc Albert Cormier

We at Miquelon.org have dealt with both comedians and their forays into the world of French Bashing.

Conan O’Brien had been invited to Toronto in early 2004 and aired one of the most vile anti-Quebec and anti-French sketches ever. This comedian’s associate, Robert Smigel and his hand puppet Triumph, caused such a stir the issue was raised in Canada’s parliament.

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Educating Jay – EmotionFilmsLtd © 2009.

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Update (14 July 2011): Welcome to one of our most-tweeted articles. It seems everytime the French are mentioned anywhere in the media, legions of lemmings reach for their tweeting apparatus to make rather lame and pathetic “French Surrender” jokes. Be it Strauss-Kahn, Libya, Tennis, Bastille Day, Women’s Soccer.

Our original article from 2009: Pretty much everybody online fancies themselves a comedian; unfortunately most of us are and will remain wannabes. Now that “Eternal September” has hit twitter, legions of newbies clamoring for attention are using the micro-blogging platform to repeat, rehash and retweet their skewed and simplistic view of history and the world.

On average, about a dozen or so anti-French jabs are written on twitter per week, most of them being some form of “French Surrender” joke. While some are deliberately trying to be offensive, others are living proof there is a “long tail” to America’s recent spate of French Bashing.

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You called my people cowards on a nightly basis for years based on your skewed perception of events in World War II and your willingness to please the Bush administration before and during the Iraq war. [Read Jay's Anti-French material]

While it is a fact our leadership betrayed us and surrendered us to the enemy in 1940, over 100 000 men in uniform died trying to slow the German advance. Had the French been the cowards you so often joked about, there would have been no battle of Lille and no evacuation of 340 000 British troops from Dunkirk. But historical facts were never your forte.

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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.

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