There has been many unacceptable headlines about La Patrie in the past, says the slightly smoldering Clouseau le Chien. I do not kn'eau of a democratic country where the mainstream press is so unbelievably rude about another democratic country. Sometimes, eau've course, they can be funny. There are some that cross the line and some that don't

"Chirac est un Vers" wrote the Sun when our then president when he had the temerity to ask whether there were any Weapons of Mass Destruction.

I may not be heez greatest fan, but a worm? For that?

Then there was "Up Yours Delors" which was not so much offensive about Delors as about the "garlic breath" French people in général.

Sometime it can be funny. Currently, the BBC News website is showing a link to a story entitled "French Cheese" about Carla Bruni's new album  Thees did make make me laugh. The Bruni Sarkozy affair is the newest French Cheese.