Sarkozy walks out of TV interview

[YankBastard]

"Baisez cette merde!"
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy abruptly terminated an interview with US television when asked about his recent divorce from his wife Cecilia

[guignol]

YB, you have a knack for bringing these things up when they're old news... not that i'm complaining, it entices me to look at things i had only vaguely heard of before you posted them here!

the original spin that sarko insulted stahl is false; as stahl's voiceover (more on that later) he was mad at his attaché de presse for not laying down stronger ground rules for the interview, or perhaps for getting him on 60min in the first place.

anyway, i say chapeaux bas, and hope american politicians take a lesson. their private lives are of no importance, and should be of no interest to us. its enquirerization is probably thing wrong numéro une with american politics.

stahl's mistaking l'hôtel de l'élysée with (the) paris hilton :cool: was not her only mistake. the start of the voiceover of the bit that CBS aired tells us sarko uncharacterisic for a frenchman, likes everything about the states. faux, and faux. that he's called sarko l'américain... :rolleyes: he may have been called that once or twice, but it's certainly ignorant to say he IS called that...

to me, the REAL story here is a very sad one. the downfall of 60 minutes in the space of 30 years. nothing but voiceovers and sound bites about subjects that make people magazine look intellectual. just when you thought this once rock solid program could sink no lower, lesley stahl bravely breaks new ground.

[Nanbawan]

Yankbastard : Red Card...

Why am I not surprised...

Anyway, those Sarkozy related topics should be merged in one Sarko Show® thread.


PS : Hey, Nico, I need a pizza with pepperoni ! I hope you can fly the presidential jet right in Brittany. Oh ! You're already there ? Perfect !

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Yankbastard : Red Card...no, you just don't understand him. YB actually likes france... but he likes his fun, too. don't we all? :D

[Metropolitan]

I've watched the full show about Sarkozy on 60 minutes, and frankly I considered Lesley Stahl presentation was quite fair. What I mean is that the journalist didn't hid anything about the context, clarifying that it was indeed David Martinon who was getting insulted and not her, and specifying that she asked that question the very day of Sarkozy's divorce when the divorce was actually announced only 2 days later on thursday. It's obvious that it would have been a huge mistake in Sarkozy's communication to announce his divorce for a US TV show.

Well, all this to say that no matter whether you love or hate Sarkozy or 60 minutes, I clearly don't see any reason to make a fuss about this.

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the real story here is not sarko or stahl but the reaction in the states and how from cheese eating surrender monkeys, france has now become the tiger who tamed the liberals at CBS (Communist Broadcasting System). plus schizo tu meurs!

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getting blitzed with vlad the irradiator, then slapping leslie, then picking a fight with some fishermen, now insulting a citizen at the paris ag show...

môssieu, ceci n'est point un comportement! in my neighborhood, behavior like that can get you branded as... racaille.

anyone besides me getting the feeling that it's the élysée palace that needs a good cleaning out with a high pressure hose?

[YankBastard]

no, you just don't understand him. YB actually likes france... but he likes his fun, too. don't we all? :D

"We are in a more than 200-year marriage with France. The last 38 years have been in marriage counseling."
-Colin Powell-

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oh unca colin, unca colin! will you tell us a story? pleeeeeze????

tell us about the yellowcake again, that's a REAL SCARY ONE!

http://stuarthughes.blogspot.com/powell-anthrax.jpg

[YankBastard]

oh unca colin, unca colin! will you tell us a story? pleeeeeze????

tell us about the yellowcake again, that's a REAL SCARY ONE!

http://stuarthughes.blogspot.com/powell-anthrax.jpg

No, we'll just tell you the story of how we saved you from the Germans. :cool: That's our favorite. Thanks for the statue, BTW. But we still want you to hand over Audrey Tautou.

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No, we'll just tell you the story of how we saved you from the Germans. :cool: That's our favorite.that's ANOTHER thing!

we hear all about how if it wasn't for the US we'd all be speaking german now. well, damnit, we can't get our kids to take german in school these days, they say it's too hard and all go for spanish. so all i gotta say is THANKS FOR NUTHIN'! :mad:

[NicolasN.]

getting blitzed with vlad the irradiator, then slapping leslie, then picking a fight with some fishermen, now insulting a citizen at the paris ag show...

môssieu, ceci n'est point un comportement! in my neighborhood, behavior like that can get you branded as... racaille.

anyone besides me getting the feeling that it's the élysée palace that needs a good cleaning out with a high pressure hose?

Sarkozy est pris à son propre jeu. Il a utilisé les médias quand cela l'arrangeait pour faire oublier les problèmes français voire reléguer des grèves au second rang dans les JT, mais maintenant le rouleau compresseur médiatique se retourne contre lui.

Depuis deux semaines, on voit une nouvelle polémique apparaître quotidiennement. Rama Yade qui dit que le PS est raciste, l'épisode Neuilly, ses discours sur la religion, Emmanuelle Mignon qui prétend que les sectes ne sont pas un problème en France, l'épisode du salon de l'agriculture et maintenant le fait qu'il ait corrigé son interview dans le Parisien...Cela commence à faire beaucoup.

Je suis choqué par l'image qu'il renvoie. Il n'a aucune pudeur. Un président se doit, tout de même, de renvoyer une image digne. Il a un devoir d'exemplarité, même s'il n'en est pas conscient. Il représente la France et il se comporte comme un adolescent, un enfant gâté qui se croit tout permis.

Il y a un mois, on le voyait envoyer des SMS durant les discussions avec les émirs d'Arabie Saoudite. Même si l'Arabie Saoudite n'est certainement pas le pays le plus exemplaire en terme de lutte contre le terrorisme - officieusement tout du moins - il aurait pu se montrer un minimum alerte à leurs interventions en tant que chef d'état français. Ne pas envoyer de textos pendant quelques heures et respecter ses interlocuteurs n'a rien d'insurmontable à mon humble avis.

Son dernier écart de language à été un gros buzz sur le net. Le Parisien a fait un joli coup. La vidéo a été vue plus de 3 millions de fois.

Le contraste avec Chirac, qui était connu pour apprécier la visite de ce salon, est flagrante. On voit dans l'échange qu'il est le premier à insulter le citoyen. De prime abord, il refuse juste de lui serrer la main et là Sarkozy lui assène "casse toi". Ce n'est qu'ensuite qu'il réplique par "tu me salis".

Sa personnalité est inquiétante et ses résultats politiques sont loin de l'attente des Français. Selon moi, sa chute dans les sondages n'est pas liée qu'à sa surmédiatisation, mais aussi bien à sa politique.

Les chiffres de l'inflation sont catastrophiques.

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starkozy said he was going to bring france closer to the USA... but i never imagined that in the space of a few months he would be able to americanize his government to this extent. dati, yade, amara, kouchner, the constant upstaging of fillon... the ascendancy of image, especially sarkozy's personal image, over substance, and the tailoring of that image to the lowest common denominator.

lyon's first starbucks opened a couple of weeks ago, and this americanidolization of the republic is probably just as inevitable. but sarkozy has gone faster than the republic can keep up with. i think it was jacques julliard who wrote, "when you're president of the republic, you don't go to disneyland, you pretend to love the louvre". the french, even the most homespun, expect a certain level of articulation and decorum of their president. fishermen and farmers may exchange bugger off and come down here and say that if you're a man, but they would be disappointed to hear their mayor talk that way, so the president? shocking.