Bush's brand-new poodle

[donsu]

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IH30Ak03.html


With former British prime minister Tony Blair out of the picture, there's now a newer, leaner, meaner, adrenaline-packed "Made in France" version. Thanks to his unrelenting support for President George W Bush's war on Iraq, Blair used to be derided in all corners of the globe as Bush's poodle. Now the new self-appointed lap dog is French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

The hyperactive "Sarkozy the First" - as he is widely referred to in France -

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Meanwhile in Paris, relatively few voices are concerned over the Bush-Sarkozy lovefest - a measure of how Sarkozy, as former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi once did in Italy, exercises almost universal power over the French media (one of his former top advisers now is at the top at TF1, the private channel that subscribes to the Rupert Murdoch/Berlusconi school of mass television).

The flashy Sarkozy has already been portrayed as the epitome of the new bling-bling right, which has replaced the defunct caviar left; his role models are Rupert "Fox" Murdoch and Bernard Arnault, the first fortune of France and owner, among others, of deluxe conglomerate LVMH.
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didn't the neo cons used to hate all things French?

didn't the French used to be anti-neo con?

[Fredda Weinberg]

1. Laissez-les manger le gâteau n/t

[donsu]

2. ? ? - isn't gateau a sugar glazed goodie?

nt

[Fredda Weinberg]

3. Let 'em eat Dunkin' Donuts.

Come to think of it, we can all work there too. C'est la vie.