I doubt if anyone here will deny how extensive French-bashing is in Anglo-American media; this does not justify seeing it in even innocuous comments like those of liberal Democrat Keillor. Why would someone who features 2 French intellectuals in his US radio programme in the past week turn on the French - allegedly ? Now three of us find your interpretation quite implausible - unfortunately it's a bit late in the diary comments - but does ANYONE else find Jerome's interpretation plausible? Weird.

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

But you got it WRONG this time.  You are looking for things and finding things that aren't there.  Russia bashing in the press is everywhere too, but I don't assume everyone is bashing Russia. Or is it just easier to lump all people into one group you don't like and presume they are guilty?

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

Do you realize that Garrison Keillor is a humorist?  Not a serious pundit or commentator?  He's sort of the Mark Twain of the late 20th - early 21st century.  

I'm just having a hard time thinking that he fits into the category of serious "English language media commentary on France".

I'm sure I don't notice it as much as you but I really do notice French bashing in the media.  And ... unlike my compatriots in this thread, I don't mind if you want to call each and every instance out of even borderline France bashing out.  I like to do that with lawyer bashing :)