So the 'Nicholas Sarkoy-"come back"-SMS-to-ex-Cécila Albéniz-eight-days-before-his-marriage-to-Carla Bruni' story hasn't gone away yet - not because anything new has happened in terms of the president's criminal case against the journalist who broke the story, but because Carla Bruni gave her first First Lady interview and said that such tabloid-y press would have denounced Jews if it had existed during the Second World War. It provoked the appropriate storm of complaints, with the editor of the Nouvel Observateur (the SMS-breaking paper and website) describing the complaint as 'perfectly imbecilic'.
Awesome. Too awesome. Easily the stupidest statement I've heard all week, both in its timing and substance. Belgians? Fucking geniuses. What a monumental victim complex in someone so rich and privileged. I love that shit. So much more adorable than hypocrisy because you can tell she really believes it. Obviously tabloids, if they'd existed the same way then that they do now, would have done the same thing then that they do now - for example, report on a president's (attempted) infidelities. And maybe if there'd been that popular element aggressively presenting the public with the weakness of its leaders, the totalitarian regimes that oversaw some of the worst genocides in history might not have been able to get the support of the masses that they did, indeed, get.
But I suppose if a massive insecurity is making you wedge your head firmly up your own ass, being internationally humiliated through the revelation that your husband is still trying to get his ex-wife back and might even have used your quickie marriage as some sort of attempted emotional blackmail against her could feel like you were a Jew being packed off to the death camps . . . nah, actually, I just don't see it. All I see is a pretty lady whose fame is based principally on having been The Other Woman and who has lost all fucking sense of proportion when faced with the possiblity that the public now sees her as, at best, a consolation prize.
Whoa, that is quite a mean-spirited entry. Rien de grave must have made more of an impression on me than I'd thought.
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i don't get why mr sarkozy continues to sms his ex -- i mean, he's got the trophy wife, right? i mean, bruni sounds like a twit, but would anyone be cool with their new spouse surreptiously texting their ex on their honeymoon?
some would - not me. But sut waht about the new Sarko contro : his sons mayoral deal and the scuttling of his loyal party functionary to the altar of his son ??
I don't know, Baywatch, you know how pretty girls can get with their self-esteem.
Hilts, there are different conspiracy theories about that, mostly centering around the fact Martinon got to be where he was because Cécilia liked him and told Sarkozy to put him there, and the downfall came when someone - her perhaps? - showed the embarassing SMS to the press.
But it's simpler than that - Martinon was deeply unpopular with the party and the electorate. The UMP risked losing Neuilly Sarkozy's old stomping grounds, where he was mayor for something like 20 years, and they still do, because while Martinon was still there a rogue UMP member started an alternative campaign. That would split the vote of an electorate that was already leaning towards the left more than they had in decades.
Sarkozy's 21 year old son will not be running for mayor. His actions have been interpreted as a way to force Martinon out of the race without Sarkozy himself having to backpedal on his decision to have Martinon be mayor. Now the UMP has endorsed another guy and expelled Arnaud Tellé, the UMPer who challenged Martinon. However Tellé is staying in the race as a sort of independant and doing well.
Messy world of French politics. Feelin' dirty? Makes the Democratic nomination look like a series of footrubs, doesn't it?
That's fucking priceless. Then again, that statement did come from someone who actually thought that shagging Eric Clapton was a good idea...
To be fair, I would have shagged Eric Clapton before I realized that he sang 'Layla', a whiny song about being a big desperately horny baby, and that it was actually the Kinks who sang 'Lola', an awesome song about managing not to screw a beautiful transvestite through sheer force of will despite being a big desperately horny baby.
And I was way below the age of consent then, so he would have had to go to prison and spare the world his "Unplugged" album. Imagine what could have been. It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world.
except for Lola.
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