The Times’ Three-Part Slam at the French

Re “French Hall of Shame,” editorials, March 12: Sacre bleu. Was it a really slow day on the editorial page last Saturday, or did you have a guest editorial writer from the Swift Boat Veterans Against All Things French?

I wonder how to say “much ado about nothing” in French?

Did I miss something, or isn’t railing against a silly xenophobic court decision, a minor ministerial housing scandal and French policy in Iraq pretty small potatoes compared with such issues at home as the administration’s efforts in the courts to efface the separation of church and state, the influence peddling in the House majority leader’s own house and the ongoing failures of U.S. policy in Iraq?

Hall of Shame, indeed.

Robert Bookman

Los Angeles

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What is going on! Has there been a coup at The Times -- have the Francophobes taken over?

Or is it just that the French Consulate has cut back on the deliveries to your offices of quiche, brie and champagne? Perhaps your editorial staff have imbibed too much of the latter? I await further developments!

George Paulikas

Palos Verdes Estates