Celebrazione! Italy toasts Cup win with swastikas, racial cracks
posted at 6:03 pm on July 11, 2006 by Allahpundit
Old-world charm. And that doesn’t even include Italian player Marco Materazzi allegedly calling Algerian-born Zinedine Zidane a “son of a terrorist whore.”
I live in an Italian neighborhood and am part Italian myself, which naturally means I was rooting — hard — for France. As would you if you knew that an Azzurri win would mean being sideswiped for the next two day by morons with Italian flags taped to the hoods of their cars racing down the boulevard. Way to go on that red card, Zizou. Clutch.
Speaking of Zidane, I challenge you to make it through this essay by Bernard Henri-Levy with a straight face. Let me just toss some of the choicer words and phrases at you:
myth
providence
savior
Achilles
super-Achilles
Agamemnon
Myrmidons
Achaeans
Pantheon of stadium-gods
giant
Titans
Glory, then Exile, then Return and Redemption
redeemer
blue angel dressed in white
Olympus
apotheosis
cast him into hell
That’s from the first three paragraphs.
If this guy was any more jacked up he’d be sporting a rod. So much for French ennui.
Blowback
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Oh my God! And … they call US arrogant! Hahahaha!!!
SirGregor on July 11, 2006 at 6:32 PM
They use any excuse to express their anti-semitism in Muslim-dominated countries. Why would a formerly great country like Italy, now busy subjecting itself to dhimmitude, be any different?
thirteen28 on July 11, 2006 at 7:16 PM
I can’t take it. It’s like these people think that soccer is as important as football or something.
Savage on July 11, 2006 at 7:31 PM
Henri-Levy’s screed as printed this morning was a bad enough read on its own; a truly Europhiliac elegy to France’s fallen hero (if only we gave a red monkey’s ass about soccer, the Cup, or those who played in it). Hey, what other outcome would you expect when throwing 11 Frenchies on their own in a field in the middle of Berlin, sans Americanes or Anglais? But I digress. Pretentious French author-philosophers with glass fetishes shouldn’t throw stones. Euros. Feh!
Kid from Brooklyn on July 11, 2006 at 7:32 PM
What’s more distressing, the Journal chose to print this Euro soccer garbage along with the Miniter open-borders propaganda. I quit reading al-NYT precisely in order to avoid reading merde like this.
Kid from Brooklyn on July 11, 2006 at 7:38 PM
So much for French ennui.
Perfectionner
shooter on July 11, 2006 at 7:51 PM
New Red State Update! – World Cup!
http://www.travisandjonathan.com/RSUworldcup.html
venmax on July 11, 2006 at 7:59 PM
Arguably the worst writing I’ve ever encountered.
Seriously. Achilles agrees with me.
Professor Blather on July 12, 2006 at 8:02 AM
I am a living being not a fetish; a man of flesh and blood and passion, not this idiotic empty hologram, this guru, this universal psychoanalyst, natural child of Abbé Pierre and Sister Emanuelle, which soccer-mania was trying to turn me into.
wha the f***??
pullingmyhairout on July 12, 2006 at 9:51 AM
The New York Times wrote …
Surprised they didn’t make a comparison to BushCo. Must be off their game a bit.
BrunoMitchell on July 12, 2006 at 10:50 AM
All this fuss with a game decided by whether or not the goalie guesses right on the overtime kick. Seems a bit overdone, n’est ce pas?
honora on July 12, 2006 at 3:35 PM
And they said the Europeans had renounced religion.
entagor on July 12, 2006 at 10:43 PM