Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Politics - France elects a new President
French politics looks pretty ugly...
The Washington Times' Nidra Poller talks about French "gutter slime":
"Mr. Sarkozy was the target of a gutter-slime anti-Sarko campaign, passed off as a citizen's movement against a dangerous fascist. His Jewish origins and trans-Atlantic affinities were slandered in a Nazi-style cartoon showing him at the center of a Star of David, pointing to Tel Aviv and Washington. Vicious lies about Mr. Sarkozy, his family, his program and his millionaire friends circulated from extremist Web sites to left-wing bobo mailing lists and turned up, freshly laundered, in Miss Royal's speeches. International media, apparently ignorant of the lower depths of the sleaze, picked up the rumors and the less objectionable caricatures. While mudslingers called Mr. Sarkozy a dwarf -- he is not tall like Charles de Gaulle and Jacques Chirac -- wily denigrators dressed him up as Napoleon."
