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Thursday, June 17, 2004

# Posted 7:07 AM by Patrick Belton  

ADVERTISING MISMATCH - PAGING THE CROOKED TIMBER IRONY-WATCHERS: I love the Weekly Standard. I also happen heartily to enjoy the French language, the French literary and intellectual tradition, all flesh-and-blood French people I have the pleasure to know, and most things, actually, about the French nation, apart from the various political institutions it seems to generate from time to time. But just out of curiosity, is the Standard necessarily the optimum place for Champs Élysée Audiotapes to urge readers to 'Become fluent in French!'? (That said, I heartily endorse, applaud, and support any advertisers who seek to provide monetary assistance to the Weekly Standard, New Republic, Slate, or any of my other daily reads...)

UPDATE: A reader emails in: 'Back here in the States, you might be interested to know that The Longest Day, broadcast on D-Day this year, was sponsored by Mercedes-Benz! (Maybe they thought that the Germans' staff cars were some kind of product placement...)'
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