I believe he also pointed out in that speech that the scurrilous language being hurled now at the French is exactly the same brand that has been flung at liberals in this country by the far right. My Fr. friend Laetizia, in Paris, says the French don't really understand half the insults anyway...like scum-sucking cheese eaters....they are amused, disdainful, and rightly contemptuous of the childishness of it all. It *would* be funny if it weren't so serious...