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mauled by a gaul .....
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been caught on camera swearing at a member of the crowd at the annual farming fair in Paris.
The video clip, which has been posted on the internet, shows a man at the Salon International de l'Agriculture refusing to shake the president's hand. When offered Mr Sarkozy's hand, the man draws back and says: 'Oh no, don't touch me, you'll dirty me.' Mr Sarkozy snaps: 'Get lost then you bloody idiot, just get lost!'
The video was taken as Mr Sarkozy greeted visitors to the fair earlier this weekend. The encounter has now been posted on the website of the French daily newspaper Le Parisien and has already received thousands of hits.
Sarkozy Outburst At Farming Fair
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Gus: for those who can understand a bit of Froggy, what King Sarkozy ze debonnaire said was a bit stronger than what the BBC site has translated... The cartoon above gives a more accurate description of what King Smartypants said...
May be the discontented person, possibly a farmer, did not like Sarkozy's refusal to allow GM crops in France... In this case, I totally approve of his grand choice of words...YouTube
- By Gus Leonisky at 25 Feb 2008 - 9:24pm
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A yucky broth of tyrants, kings and presidents...
Robert Fisk: Today's despot is tomorrow's statesman
Millions believe Bashar al-Assad plotted murder. Now France is honouring him
How are the mighty fallen, we used to say. Now we turn it round. How did the fallen become mighty again? Remember the "mad dog of the Middle East" – Reagan's stupid cliché – the "terrorist" sponsor who even sent a shipload of guns to the IRA? A certain Moammar Ghazzafi – there are 17 different ways of spelling his name in Latin script – was the crazed leader of Libya who wrote a mind-numbingly boring volume of pseudo philosophy called The Green Book and who wanted to mock the White House by calling his own palace the Green House until someone tipped him off that this would mean he would look even more of a cabbage than he already was.
Then suddenly, he gave up some imaginary weapons of mass destruction and Anthony Blair, now the commercial director of World Faith, went out to fawn over him in Tripoli and he was called "statesmanlike" by the absurd Jack Straw and then he was invited to Paris by the even more absurd Nicolas Sarkozy where he right royally made the French president look like a twat by behaving in an extremely unstatesmanlike way.
And now – bingo – Sarkozy has done it again. This time it's Bashar al-Assad, another presumed "sponsor of world terror" – this twaddle comes from Washington, of course – who will (if he accepts the invitation française) be in Paris on Bastille Day to take his place in the reviewing stand at the end of the Champs Elysées. The man whom millions of Lebanese believe plotted the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri in Beirut on 14 February 2005 will thus be receiving one of France's highest honours: to stand beside the French president as he reviews his military forces.
Le Canard Enchaîné, my favourite French newspaper, carried a wonderful cartoon this week in which an extremely good likeness of Bashar asks Sarkozy and the gorgeous Carla: "What is it exactly, your 14 July?" And Carla replies: "It's the end of a tyrant." And Sarkozy, almost lost for words, then adds: "Er – a king." Well quite.
Read more at The Independent
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The sound technician "was" deaf...
Sarkozy TV rebuke becomes web hit
Footage of French President Nicolas Sarkozy expressing irritation at a TV technician ahead of an interview has become an instant internet success.
The video shows the employee clipping a microphone to Mr Sarkozy's tie, and not responding to a presidential "hello".
"It's a question of manners," Mr Sarkozy is heard muttering. "When you're invited, you're entitled to have people say 'hello' to you".
The video, posted on the Dailymotion website, has drawn about 500,000 hits.
It was recorded on Monday, as Mr Sarkozy was waiting to be interviewed on France 3 television.
Mr Sarkozy is seen winking while complaining about the manners of the technician who appears not to have returned his greeting.
At the end of the brief outburst, he appears to suggest the employee should not be working for state TV.
Asked about the video, a spokesman for the presidency declined to comment.
FR3 has condemned the "pirating" of the off-air footage and launched an inquiry.