The language barrier saves Marc Rich

Remember Marc Rich? Tarnished Bill Clinton's final days in an office with a messy pardon. Well, he's back in the news, but only in France. You'd think the vast right wing conspiracy would be looking for any excuse to get a Clinton scandal back in the news but we suspect they are too busy bashing France to actually learn anything about the place. Anyway, Rich is in the news because in a weird coincidence, his company, Glencore, is linked to two affairs of the type that get the French all upset about globalisation: the Prestige tanker spill off Galicia, and the closure of a century old lead factory in the northwest without any cleanup plan for the site or a layoff plan for the workers. The ownership trail in both cases seems to lead to Glencore. I think we learn from this that the typical American right-wing rabble rouser is much stupider than his English equivalent, who can at least master a little French.