McCain Campaign Uses Same Cheesy Frenchman Photo As Wonkette!

by Sara K. Smith

Zee Fronsh love Jean MacquaineLast night the McCain folks were handing out press credentials with a ridiculous bereted Frenchman on them, we are not sure why, but that dude looks suspiciously like the mustachioed sophisticate who appeared in our own “The Foreigns” column, which ran back when there was still international news and our columnist was not a Jeopardy! celebrity.

Commenter “Underclassed” asks, “Are the McCain people Josh Fruhlinger fans? Or do they just know how to run a Google Image Search for ‘French Guy?’” The point is, both the McCain campaign and Wonkette find the same random photo of a Frenchman funny, the end. [Photo via Marc Ambinder]

Hola wonkerados.

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{ 38 comments }

ManchuCandidate July 23, 2008 at 12:25 pm

The original text for the poster:

“Bonjorrrrr you Cheeese eat’n Surrrrender Monkeys!”

EnBuenOra July 23, 2008 at 12:31 pm

Clearly the McCain campaign is still bitter about the French inability to repel those nasty Huns. He knows that once he starts lecturing Americans on how you can’t trust those darn French snail-eaters, victory is assured.

shortsshortsshorts July 23, 2008 at 12:34 pm

Yes. I Googled French Guy, and it was the fourth result. LAZY SLAVES. Now you know why you people are underpaid. Barry’s campaign would probably start with genetic engineering, bring in the world’s best scientists, build a French Guy from scratch and take a picture of said French Guy.

Monsieur Grumpe July 23, 2008 at 12:37 pm

The photo is not complete without stink lines around his arm pits, a white flag in the background and baguette stuffed halfway down his pants. Get the stereotypes right damn it.

WadISay July 23, 2008 at 12:38 pm

McCain’s press passes should be in the shape of an albatross.

Lascauxcaveman July 23, 2008 at 12:38 pm

[re=42128]EnBuenOra[/re]: Clearly the McCain campaign is still bitter about the French inability to repel those nasty Huns.

I think what you meant to say is “Clearly the McCain campaign is totally awsome!

[fixed]

TGY July 23, 2008 at 12:38 pm

Maybe it’s a subtle message that he *does* read Wonkette and some people will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes *nudge-nudge*.

weirdiowasculpture July 23, 2008 at 12:39 pm

Why does McCain hate America?

shortsshortsshorts July 23, 2008 at 12:43 pm

[re=42139]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: I think he’s pointing himself out with your description:
http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/article/13298887/2008/07/21/12270606.jpg

RooseveltFranklin July 23, 2008 at 12:44 pm

[re=42132]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: I Googled “french gay” by mistake and that shit is really disturbing.

Underclassed July 23, 2008 at 12:45 pm

But then who isn’t a GIS-capable Josh Fruhlinger fan?

PeteJayhawk v2.0 July 23, 2008 at 12:47 pm

I think it’s obvious that the McCain folks are just big Apartment 3-G and Mary Worth fans.

PeteJayhawk v2.0 July 23, 2008 at 12:47 pm

Also fans of Pluggers.

weirdiowasculpture July 23, 2008 at 12:51 pm

McCain shouldn’t make fun of the French. They invented the blow job.

Monsieur Grumpe July 23, 2008 at 12:51 pm

[re=42156]PeteJayhawk v2.0[/re]:
Don’t forget Family Circus.

shortsshortsshorts July 23, 2008 at 12:53 pm

[re=42151]RooseveltFranklin[/re]: I’m surprised they didn’t use your search. He may be a maverick, but he’s still a Republican.

RuperttheBear July 23, 2008 at 1:09 pm

[re=42141]WadISay[/re]: They’re going to use up the millstone-shaped ones first.

Josh Fruhlinger July 23, 2008 at 1:15 pm

[re=42132]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: He’s actually the #1 hit for “french guy beret”, which I’m pretty sure was how I found him in the first place.

Baconcat July 23, 2008 at 1:16 pm

[re=42159]weirdiowasculpture[/re]: and l’affaire! They made it possible, nay, okay to leave your crippled wife for a younger richer girl!

Naked Bunny with a Whip July 23, 2008 at 1:29 pm

I just wish you guys would stop using that picture and any other stills from Brent Spiner’s sex video.

Baconcat July 23, 2008 at 1:39 pm

[re=42215]Naked Bunny with a Whip[/re]: win

Baconcat July 23, 2008 at 1:42 pm

can we come up with a godwin’s law for using french as a talking point? Like any argument over forign policy, the odds of a Neocon using the French as a mockable example over time approaches 1?

I mean, seriously, every stinking time. Barack Obama went to Afghanistan! How French of him. It Doesn’t even make sense.

shortsshortsshorts July 23, 2008 at 1:43 pm

[re=42183]Josh Fruhlinger[/re]: As I searched through many of the other results, I can see why that would be number one. The other one’s are a bit lame.

botlrokit July 23, 2008 at 1:44 pm

The Frunchman looks just like Robert Newman, doing his Salvador Dali impression.

ReelectTilden July 23, 2008 at 1:51 pm

[re=42151]RooseveltFranklin[/re]: O là là!

bernadette July 23, 2008 at 1:57 pm

“les Américains stupides”

MARCdMan July 23, 2008 at 2:19 pm

Wait, does this mean Senator Walnuts has found “the google?”

HedonismBot July 23, 2008 at 2:22 pm

I think McCain’s people have given up on actually winning, and they are just playing this out for laughs. Seriously, his people all have permanent short-timer’s syndrome, and they are past the point of giving a shit.

AxmxZ July 23, 2008 at 2:30 pm

Props for funny, even though it’s sort of too little too late.

slavojzizek July 23, 2008 at 3:06 pm

This almost makes me want to vote for McCain. Next up–an appeal to working class voters using your ‘dear shit for brains…’ cartoon.

S. Cullen Bonz July 23, 2008 at 3:18 pm

I think that’s a picture of Mitt Romney when he was a missionary in France in the 1960s.

Tawmn July 23, 2008 at 3:45 pm

It’s gotta be 4:00 somewhere… I’m having a nice Bordeaux tout de suite!

Casse-toi pauvre con July 23, 2008 at 3:57 pm

Finally, it’s Casse-toi pauvre con’s time to shine!

gurukalehuru July 23, 2008 at 4:18 pm

This is the first time I have ever thought of cyberspace as a small world.

Chuckie Jesus July 23, 2008 at 4:29 pm

Savoir faire… EES EVERYWHERE!

S. Cullen Bonz July 23, 2008 at 7:08 pm

He’s stolen my cheesie!

wander_lust July 23, 2008 at 11:30 pm

I don’t…. understand this. Why does McCain need French press credentials anyway? I thought he was on an oil rig in Bobby Jindal’s pants…

NavinJohnson July 17, 2009 at 5:12 pm

The French translates as “Left in the background to write a report in America.” Ze Babelfeesh, he did not make ze translation so good, non?

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