----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Toronto Star - November 23, 2002
>
> Chirac leaps to PM's aid on 'moron' flap
>
> LOUISE ELLIOTT
> CANADIAN PRESS
> PARIS (CP)
>
> A furious French President Jacques Chirac shielded Prime Minister Jean
> Chretien from questions about a scandal surrounding his communications
> director Saturday, saying the subject had no place at an international
> meeting on aid to Lebanon.
>
> "We are in France," Chirac said sharply to a reporter during a news
> conference at L'Elysee, his palatial home. "We are not here to discuss
> Canadian domestic issues."
>
> Chirac glared at the Canadian reporter, covered Chretien's microphone with
> his hand and quickly moved to another question from the floor.
>
> The scandal had already inflamed passions in the United States, with
> conservative pundits fuming after Chretien said he'd decided not to fire
> his aide, Francoise Ducros, for calling U.S. President George W. Bush "a
> moron."
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That moron remark By RICHARD BINGHAM Saturday, November 23, 2002 - Page A24
Toronto -- Françoise Ducros's ill-considered comment is a grave and unforgivable insult to morons everywhere.
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