Sarkozy's clash at farm show an Internet hit

[jordi_fanclub]

Source: AFP via Yahoo! News

Footage of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's sharp exchange with a man who refused to shake his hand at an agriculture show collected hundreds of thousands of hits on the Internet on Sunday.

Sarkozy was filmed smiling and shaking hands with visitors as he arrived on Saturday for the opening of the agriculture fair, dubbed the "world's biggest farm" drawing some 600,000 people to celebrate French farming.

As he moved through the crowd, Sarkozy drew near the man, who told him, "Oh no, don't touch me." The president, who kept smiling, responded: "Get lost, then."

"You disgust me," the man said.

"Get lost, you stupid bastard," Sarkozy responded.

The encounter posted on the website of the French daily Le Parisien (www.leparisien.fr) had received some 330,000 hits by midday Sunday and was also featured on the popular YouTube and Dailymotion sites.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080224/en_afp/francepoliticsfarminternetsarkozy_080224190028

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The video (in french) is here: http://www.leparisien.fr/home/info/politique/articles.htm?articleid=296081002

[Hardrada]

1. I'd like to see the video of Bush saying to a protestor, "Who cares what you think?"

[liberalhistorian]

2. Well, Bush is his idol and his hero and his model,

so this shouldn't really surprise anyone. Fortunately, France is finally waking up to what a damaging idiot this so-called "leader" really is. And he though fucking and marrying a French model just a few months after his divorce would help with his poll ratings, lol.

[Acadia Blue]

3. The French are as dumb as the Americans....they too elected a

greedy corporatists.

[cliss]

4. This is funny.

This is a man with a temper. A temper which he doesn't mind putting on display, for all to see. It's totally hilarious, the man is an absolute buffoon. The more he puts his out of control behaviour out there, the more credibility he loses.

How is he going to deal with crises in France? By throwing a chair out the window of his office?

[TheLastMohican]

5. Since Tony Blair is gone

This is officially the new "Poodle" of the Bush regime.

[Algorem]

6. Mr. Rude?

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