Sarkozy "Get Lost" video a YouTube hit

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Posted by HardTranceProd on Feb-25-2008 15:09:

Sarkozy "Get Lost" video a YouTube hit

Sarkozy "get lost" video becomes Internet hit

http://www.reuters.com/article/news...454109820080224

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PARIS (Reuters) - A video of French President Nicolas Sarkozy telling a bystander to "get lost" has become a hit on the Internet.

Sarkozy was filmed by a journalist from the daily Le Parisien on a walkabout at the annual farm fair in Paris on Saturday.

Sarkozy offered his hand to a man who said: "Don't touch me, you are soiling me." In reply, Sarkozy said, without dropping his smile: "Get lost, dumb ass."

The video was posted on Le Parisien's website www.leparisien.fr.on and by midday on Sunday it had been seen by more than 350,000 people, a spokeswoman for the newspaper said.

"It has created quite a controversy," she said. The video is the first to come up when searching for Sarkozy on Dailymotion and YouTube.

Sarkozy's popularity ratings are in freefall and his hands-on style of government is attracting growing criticism.

In November, Sarkozy had a heated exchange with fishermen during protests against rising fuel costs. The president challenged a fisherman who had insulted him.

"Come down and say that," Sarkozy, elected in May, was quoted as saying. "Don't think that by insulting me you will solve fishermen's problems."

After the incident, Sarkozy said he refused to have insults hurled at him and would only accept a dialogue between "civilized people."

Francois Hollande, head of the Socialist party, said Sarkozy was not behaving like a head of state and called on him to improve his behavior.

"One should not get into a brawl...One does not call down a fisherman or a worker to explain what he said, one does not get into a fight with someone who does not want to shake your hand," Hollande said on pay-TV channel Canal plus.

Sarkozy's spokesman, David Martinon, declined to comment on the fair incident.

The number of people satisfied with the president fell 9 percentage points in a month to 38 percent, according to an Ifop poll in the Sunday paper Le Journal du Dimanche.

Posted by rewind_plz on Feb-25-2008 16:46:

Posted by HardTranceProd on Feb-25-2008 21:44:

thanks for that video. I couldn't find it, it wasn't on that site I linked to. that's the answer to your PM

Posted by Magnetonium on Feb-26-2008 02:58:

LOL ... Sarkozy is the only politician that can make me laugh nowadays, Bush is simply too predictable and his jokes are repetitive ... Sarkozy is quite an outgoing fella, though he doing jack shit for his country, he is intriguing for the media people. I completely agree with him in this case. What the hell was that idiot doing around Sarkozy's procession anyway? If he fears getting his hand soiled, he should be elsewhere ... so he got an appropriate response ;-) 5/5

Posted by d-miurge on Feb-26-2008 08:11:

Posted by Lemonad on Feb-26-2008 10:39:

In this picture, he looks likes a frog

Posted by Krypton on Feb-27-2008 06:05:

I don't like him. HIs private life is way too public. THe French want more than a celebrity drama from their president. I recently observed, he can be quite rude.

Posted by rewind_plz on Feb-27-2008 16:40:

quote:
Originally posted by Lemonad
In this picture, he looks likes a frog

Whats in the Red box? Why is it circled?

Posted by Krypton on Feb-27-2008 17:39:

quote:
Originally posted by rewind_plz
Whats in the Red box? Why is it circled?

He's short, duh.