Editing Cheese-eating surrender monkeys (section)

=== Political ===
The term gained political traction in the US, especially in right-wing circles, when [[Jonah Goldberg]], a columnist for the ''[[National Review]]'' magazine, used it in the title of an April 1999 column on the "Top Ten Reasons to Hate the French".<ref name="Goldberg1">{{cite news|last=Goldberg |first=Jonah |author-link=Jonah Goldberg|title=Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys From Hell |url=http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/204434/cheese-eating-surrender-monkeys-hell/jonah-goldberg |access-date=August 5, 2011 |newspaper=[[National Review]] |date=April 16, 1999 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150130235956/http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/204434/cheese-eating-surrender-monkeys-hell/jonah-goldberg |archive-date=January 30, 2015 }}</ref> In the run up to and during the [[Iraq War]], Goldberg reprised it to criticize European nations and France in particular for not joining the [[Coalition of the willing (Iraq War)|Coalition of the Willing]], the United States-led invasion and occupation of Iraq.<ref name="guardianYoungeHenley" />

In 2005, [[Nigel Farage]] used the phrase in a debate with [[Tony Blair]] over the United Kingdom's financial contributions to the [[European Union]], in which Farage contrasted Blair with [[Jacques Chirac]], whom Farage praised for standing up for the French people, while accusing Blair of failing to do the same for the British people.<ref>{{cite web |date=20 December 2018 |title=BREXIT - Relive Nigel Farage vs Tony Blair EU clash at European Parliament |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zupuJkLWwfM&t=92s |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/zupuJkLWwfM |archive-date=2021-12-21 |access-date=1 November 2021 |website=YouTube |publisher=ProductiehuisEU}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Mcfadyen |first1=Siobhan |date=28 August 2016 |title=Still think the future is Europe, Tony? Watch 2005 Farage give Blair a super EU smackdown |url=https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/704539/Watch-Nigel-Farage-give-Tony-Blair-a-super-EU-smackdown-back-in-2005 |access-date=2 November 2021 |website=Daily Express}}</ref>

[[Ben Macintyre]] of ''[[The Times]]'' wrote in August 2007 that it is "perhaps the most famous" of the [[List of neologisms on The Simpsons|coinages from ''The Simpsons'']] and it "has gone on to become a journalistic cliché".<ref name="benm" /> The ''[[New York Post]]'' used it (as "Surrender Monkeys") as the headline for its December 7, 2006, front page, referring to the [[Iraq Study Group]], and its recommendation that American soldiers be withdrawn from [[Iraq]] by January 2008.<ref name="PBP">{{cite news|url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/12072006/news/nationalnews/iraq_appease_squeeze_on_w__nationalnews_.htm |title=Iraq 'Appease' Squeeze on W. |work=[[New York Post]] |date=December 7, 2006 |first=Niles |last=Lathem |access-date=February 5, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070126132159/http://www.nypost.com/seven/12072006/news/nationalnews/iraq_appease_squeeze_on_w__nationalnews_.htm |archive-date=January 26, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' (November 2010) cited it in relation to [[Anglo-French military cooperation]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/8105022/Angle-French-force-Cheese-eating-surrender-monkeys-Non.html |title=Anglo-French force: Cheese-eating surrender monkeys? Non |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |author=Rayment, Sean |date=2010-11-02 |access-date=2011-08-03}}</ref> In August 2013, ''[[The Independent]]'' suggested an evolution away from the term, in a headline about [[French-American relations]] over the [[Syrian Civil War]].<ref>{{cite news | title = From 'cheese-eating surrender monkeys' to America's new best friends? | work = [[The Independent]] | first = John | last = Lichfield | date = 30 August 2013 | access-date = 18 December 2013| url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/from-cheeseeating-surrender-monkeys-to-americas-new-best-friends-franois-hollande-talks-tough-on-syria-after-uk-backs-down-8791471.html}}</ref>

On 6 March 2014, opposition Leader [[Bill Shorten]] used the term in the [[Australian Parliament]]. He called the [[Government of Australia]] "the cheese-eating surrender monkeys of Australian jobs".<ref>{{cite news |author=Gabrielle Chan |date=2014-03-06 |title=Qantas bill passes lower house - as it happened &#124; Australia news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/06/qantas-first-up-in-parliament-politics-live?CMP=twt_gu#block-5317be66e4b0ddf0c7eca19d |access-date=2016-01-30 |newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref> When asked to withdraw the comment, Shorten claimed he borrowed the line from an American politician, whom he could not name.{{CN|date=October 2022}} On 28 July 2014, Australia's Immigration Minister [[Scott Morrison]] used it to describe the [[Labor Party of Australia|Labor]] and Greens position on asylum seekers.<ref>{{cite web |date=28 July 2014 |title=Scott Morrison says 157 Tamil asylum seekers are 'economic migrants' not in danger of persecution in India, calls Labor and Greens 'surrender monkeys' |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-28/consular-staff-begin-processing-of-tamil-asylum-seekers/5627732 |access-date=30 January 2016 |work=ABC News}}</ref>