Branislav Peric

L’éditorialiste Bill Maher de l’hebdomadaire Newsweek a pondu récemment un virulent article sur ce que l’Amérique peut apprendre de la France.
Ca remplit le coeur de fierté de vivre dans le beau pays qu’il décrit.
Et ca doit aussi permettre de relativiser et se dire qu’on a des choses à apprendre de ces “idiots” d’américains.

Morceaux choisis :

The country that is ranked No. 1 in health care, for example, is France. The World Health Organization ranks America at 37 in the world—not two, or five—37, in between Costa Rica and Slovenia, which are both years away from discovering dentistry. Yet an American politician could not survive if he or she uttered the simple, true statement, “France has a better health-care system than us, and we should steal it.” Because here, simply dismissing an idea as French passes for an argument.
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John Kerry? Can’t vote for him—he looks French. Yeah, as opposed to the other guy, who just looked stupid.
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Hate to sink your toy boat, Fox News, but the Founding Fathers, the ones you say you revere, were children of the French Enlightenment, and fans of it, and they turned it into a musical called the Constitution of the United States.
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Noted military genius Donald Rumsfeld famously dismissed France as part of Old Europe, but the French are … what’s the word I’m looking for? Oh yeah, “mature.” We think they’re rude and snobby, but maybe that’s because they’re talking to us. For example, France just had an election, and people over there approach an election differently. They vote. Eighty-five percent turned out. The only thing 85 percent of Americans ever voted on was Sanjaya.
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As for the French conservative candidate, he’s married but he and his wife live apart and lead separate lives. They aren’t asked about it in the media, and the people are OK with it, for the same reason the people are OK with nude beaches: because they’re not a nation of 6-year-olds who scream and giggle if they see pee-pee parts. They have weird ideas about privacy. They think it should be private. In France, everyone has a mistress. Even mistresses have mistresses. To not have a lady on the side says to the voters, “I’m no good at multitasking.”
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France has its faults—the country has high unemployment, a nasty immigrant problem and all that ridiculous accordion music. But its health care is the best, it’s not dependent on Mideast oil, it has the lowest poverty rate and the lowest income-inequality rate among industrialized nations, and it’s the greenest, with the lowest carbon dumping and the lowest electricity bill. France has 20,000 miles of railroads that work. We have the trolley at the mall that takes you from Pottery Barn to the Gap. It has bullet trains. We have bullets. France has public intellectuals. We have Dr. Phil. And France invented sex during the day, the ménage à trois, lingerie and the tongue. And the French are not fat. Can’t we just admit we could learn something from them?

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