You’ve all read the Euroweenie report from Agence France Press, which portrays American patriotism as a disease:

It’s a true epidemic: the red, white and blue, stars-and-stripes banners are everywhere in the United States – on house facades, front lawns, cars and clothes.

Hitting an high point on the July 4 US Independence Day holiday, it is a genuine phenomenon of American national pride that, inevitably, gets a good but also sometimes unwanted boost from commercial exploitation.

“It’s a little strange, this obsession of the flag,” French author Bernard-Henri Levy wrote after traveling across the country.

Pride in one’s country. So strange! So sick! Mon dieu!

Hot Air affiliate Bryan from Sanctuary Photoshops one of my kids’ favorite books in response:

As if the French don’t ever get inflicted with flagmania themselves…

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