Commentary: Want Freedom Fries With That?

Studio 360 | Mar 8, 2011

This week, headlines were full of this news: "French fries" were now to be known in the Capitol dining room as Freedom Fries. Studio 360’s Kurt Andersen believes the roots of this impulse to French-bash might be a little displaced anger.

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