NewsMax's Boycott Makes Headlines Worldwide

NewsMax's Boycott Makes Headlines Worldwide

April, 2003

France remains an adversary of the United States.

Even if its protracted effort to prevent a united U.N. effort to force Saddam Hussein to disarm, France has called the U.S. invasion "illegal" - though Saddam has been violating U.N. resolutions for more than a decade.

Now, the Chirac government is furious about American success - and says it will fight the U.S. for control of Iraq. Chirac wants the U.N., which failed so miserably, to administer Iraq.

Meanwhile the French people have acted without shame. British press reports indicate some French have now stooped to desecrating the cemeteries of Allied war heroes, and a whopping one-third of them want maniacal tyrant Saddam Hussein to defeat the coalition led by American and Britain.

This is why NewsMax's Boycott France campaign is so important. We need to demonstrate to our adversaries like France that they will pay a heavy price for working actively against America.

NewsMax.com continues to lead the way in pounding Saddam-loving France.

Our boycott campaign is earning us the kind of friends we love to have and the kind of enemies who make it all worthwhile.

Many of our readers have helped in this effort, and you can join our Boycott France campaign by clicking here.

Thanks to contributions from loyal readers, our "Boycott France" ads in the New York Times and Washington Times have boosted the cause by capturing worldwide attention:

Le Monde, one of France's largest newspapers, credited NewsMax with leading the boycott effort and took note of NewsMax's boycott ad. The paper fumed that the picture we ran of chief quisling Jacques Chirac "does not look very kind."

Le Figaro, another major daily in Paris, interviewed NewsMax CEO Christopher Ruddy for another article yet to appear.

In Iraq's business ally Russia, Pravda, which continues its anti-American slant long after the fall of the Soviet Union, complained that "NewsMax.com, one of the leading online news services standing for American values," was being mean to poor widdle France with "bellicose ravings" and a "rather audacious conclusion."

Canada's premier newspaper, the Toronto Globe & Mail, also mentioned NewsMax's boycott and said, "Luckily for us, France continues to take the brunt of American hostility."

NewsMax's boycott has even made waves in sunny Jamaica, where the Observer ran an article by Agence France-Presse noting, "Dozens of businesses and products to be shunned which NewsMax.com has listed on its website include Air France, Michelin, Sofitel, Tefal, Givenchy, Lancome, Club Med, Peugeot, Publicis, Elle and Yoplait."

In suburban Chicago, the Daily Herald noted, "Internet news service NewsMax.com has started a Boycott France campaign and is seeking donations to buy ad space in U.S. newspapers to publish its list of 80 brands and companies to avoid."

Howard Goodman, a columnist for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, wrote a fair-minded piece noting the boycott and said, "You don't have to agree with what you read on NewsMax.com to admire Ruddy's readiness to raise hell."

NewsMax's boycott has caused an uproar even in Chirac's government.

French Embassy officials in Washington openly admit the French government has placed a boycott NewsMax. They have even accused us of being "racist" for this campaign.

Obviously, they are afraid of us. We are making an impact.

And NewsMax couldn't ask for a better enemy. We expect to see white flags waving any minute now.

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