The series continues tonight with shiny new Secretary of State — and longtime francophile — John Kerry in Paris:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVcI50YBnLg]New York Magazine explains more:
In Paris today, Kerry chose to speak in French unprompted, but the press conference in which he refused a direct request to speak in French took place in Washington. Kerry was famously mocked for his Francophilia during the 2004 presidential race, and perhaps, in his mind, speaking French in the Treaty Room of the White House — the very seat of American power — would open him up to the same kind of right-wing derision more so than would speaking French in France, which is really just good manners. It’s a theory based on a small sample size, admittedly.
The other possibility is that Kerry, justifiably, just hates Canada.
And here is the video of Kerry refusing to speak French in Washington:
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