French ambassador mocks Jeb Bush's France-bashing as 'bombastic nonsense'. [View all]

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Jeb Bush accomplished at least one thing during his Wednesday debate performance. Now he's not just a laughingstock, but an international laughingstock.

Bush, attacking Rubio for missing a string of Senate votes, said his rival needed to show up to work -- which he said wasn't that hard, given the Senate's "French work week." But CNBC reported his comment didn't sit well with the French ambassador to the United States, Gérard Araud, who said that Jeb Bush was full of "bombastic nonsense."

Araud later tweeted:

A French work week of 3 days? No. But a pregnancy paid leave of 16 weeks, yes! And proud of it.

And so we find ourselves in an oddly familiar place: A member of the Bush family tossing petty insults towards America's European allies, and our European allies reacting with glee at being able to mock the hammy Bush and his apparent ignorance of what le flying hell he is talking about.

Several American media outlets said Bush's insult fell flat, and French reporters appeared to agree Thursday. The Local newspaper published an article about the debate with the headline "White House race stoops to French bashing, again." L'Express called Bush's tirade "a classic attack," and the Metro News denounced it as "Republican humor."

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I suppose the next thing he'll say is that the problem with the French - in the words of his ever-quotable brother - is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur.

Which would be ok, since I'm sure Dubya didn't think they had a word for imbecile either.