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| French politicians get real |
| 2003-08-29 |
| Here’s the free space on today’s Rantburg bingo card of rants :-) France’s often aloof politicians have a chance to show their human side next month in a reality TV show putting them with an average family for two days and nights. But viewers of the TF1 series expecting to see the hardline interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy shopping with a juvenile delinquent or the far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen dining with a family of illegal immigrants are likely to be disappointed. I’m certainly disappointed! J-M: "What is this [bleep] on my plate?" Abdul: "It is a delicacy of our ethnic origin, fried camel [bleeeeeeeeeeep]" "We will discuss each host family with the politician concerned and make sure they feel comfortable with it," said the series director, Jerome Caza. "This is not about laying traps for our political leaders, but creating the conditions in which they can express themselves." "After which we will ridicule them severely!" The junior justice minister Pierre Bédier, who spent two days with a midwife in a pilot programme, said: "It was an adventure, a real experience. I spent a day in the maternity ward, went to a family christening, and even ate in a pizzeria." Mon dieu! Have they no proper French word for pizzeria? |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #4 Hmm It looks like Jospin let "pizzeria" slip throught the cracks. I propose "cafe' Italien avec tartes aux tomates, romages et saucisson" |
| Posted by: Not Mike Moore 2003-8-29 5:16:44 PM |
| #3 Please, oh please put Chirac into a 'home' for the elderly! |
| Posted by: Charles 2003-8-29 4:58:04 PM |
| #2 Says a lot about a politicians upbringing if he had never stooped to eating in a pizzeria,like the common folk. Wonder if he(by chance)happened to partake of that commoners libation,beer? |
| Posted by: raptor 2003-8-29 8:05:55 AM |
| #1 Sounds like it's time to change the GAC filter on the water at the Perrier bottling plant. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-8-29 12:24:51 AM |