More close-quarters combat chez Sarkozy..

Peter McKay of the (UK) Daily Mail:

"French President Nicholas Sarkozy may well marry his new girlfriend, model Carla Bruni, before his state visit here in March, it is reported, so the Queen can avoid the embarrassment of having to offer them separate rooms at Buckingham Palace. Given what their disreputable papers say about the Royal Family's sexual behaviour, the French must be astounded by news of such enforced propriety.

Am I right in thinking that women are more censorious than men of Carla? I haven't heard a good word about her from the gentler sex. "An old bag (she's ony 39) who's been round the block a few times" is one of the milder comments. This refers to to her dalliances with Romeos such as Sir Mick Jagger, Donald Trump, Eric Clapton and Kevin Costner, although I am sure no impropriety whatsoever occurred.

For most men, the Sarkozy Carla relationship is comical and holds out the promise of entertaining future dramas and scandals. What more can we ask?

One is tempted to engage in theorizing about divine retribution of one sort or another.

every decade. A kind of Jubilee, a kind of amnesty...

Just kidding. You know the saying, "what goes round..."

the election. I hope the labor unions destroy the fucker!

they'd used those electronic machines - but DIEBOLD! Gee whizz! I credited the French with more nous than to allow that to be done to them.

Somebody must have put prozak in their water.

were married last week, according to the French press. The Elysee Palace hasn't denied the reports.

Great example of a man thinking with his d**k instead of his head, if you ask me. As for her--pretty but flat-chested, hedonistic, spoiled. It won't last 6 months.

before?

You sound extraordinarily like my wife! Did you post this while I was out of the room, Fan? On the other hand, you could be la belle Cecilia! Or another woman who used to post, maybe still does, on that forum that was taken over by fifth-columnists. Even had a writer claiming the 2000 election had not been frauluent.

Anyway, her description of that Kathless Harris, after the 2000 election was a classic of vitriol. Something about wearing so much terrible slap, she looked like a recently embalmed corpse, etc.

I could imagine you or Cecilia driving a JCB into a wall of the Elysee Palace, as the wife of one of my wife's ex's friends did to the wall of the family sitting room.

I realise that you wouldn't know but teh Daily Mail is pretty much a cross between a print version of Faux News and the National Enquirer.

so tired of know-nothings telling me the Daily Mail is a terrible paper I shouldn't be reading.

For your information, the whole of our British mainstream press, bar the Guardian and possibly the Edinburgh Evening News, indeed, the whole of our polity, is now far right-wing, i.e. corporatist. The Daily Mail actually lauded Mussolini and Hitler to the skies before WWII - virtually all the monied people (much more stratified then) worshipped Hitler and Mussolini, too. Worse, Several months ago, one of its sicker "historians" stated that coming to terms with Hitler pre-War, as favoured by Halifax, would have been the rational course to adopt.

Homwsomever, it happens that right-wing rags - now LISTEN, because I don't want to have to repeat it yet again (I'll keep this as a boiler-plate) - have to run with the hare as well as hunting with the hounds, if they want the public to buy their rags. Only immediately prior to elections do they really show their colours in all their tawdry garish glory.

And, as matter of act, strange as this is to relate, they are immeasurably better at purveying human-interest stories, than the former Labour-leaning paper here, The Daily Mirror, or the soft-core tabloids of the likes of Murdoch. Something of the noble savage mixed in with the ignobility, perhaps. The Scottish Sunday Post is particularly good in that regard. So, you see, the world is not just black and white; not even the wretched British press.

Now you tell me why it is ALWAYS a mistake. If you'd said "a mistake" implying a general purport, it would have been annoying, but very much less foolish than saying "always a mistake", which simply shows you don't put a whole lot of critical thought into what you trot out.

The fact is, it is not in the least bit occasioned by a judgemental attitude towards any of the people concerned. Well, maybe Sarkozy, because of his execrable politics, but their private lives are none of my business.

The fact is, I find it very amusing when a big shot is treated like.. well... anything but a big shot by his wife. And the vituperative comments about Sarkozy and his lady friends by his wife, and implicitly by her female jeweller friend, hilarious! With males, humour is more often about affection than malice or judgementalism. Maybe you're of the female persuasion, or just a dour character, without the slightly irresponsible streak that means I can find immense humour in the towering rages and withering tongues of women, particularly French women. I have a particular soft spot for the craziness of French women, anyway, ever since I watched their Olympic rowing team. But I also remember translating the letter of an incandescent young French woman criticising her lawyer, and by the time I'd finished my own pulse was racing, and I was all but cheering her on. Hilarious stuff. "You go, girl!" as I believe you Americans say.