Republican Style Political Correctness

Posted on March 13, 2003 in Strange

Every morning, I wake up in these United States and think to myself, “No, it can’t possibly get more absurd than it already is.” Then I flit on over to another blog, in this case Irish Girl, and see that the United States House of Representatives has voted to rename the French Fries and the French Toast served in their cafeteria to Freedom Fries and Freedom Toast.

Back in the 1960s, when the Vietnam War was underway, an Air Force colonel stormed at a gaggle of reporters (they used to actually research their stories back then and write about things as they actually were) because they had called a recent aerial attack using explosive devices “bombing”. “It’s not bombing,” he fumed. “It’s air support, dammit! Air support!”

If I see any restaurants changing the name of the product to “Freedom Fries” I will sue them for false advertising. France is the land of the free, the one with the guts to say “NO” to U.S. policy in the Gulf.