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EUROPE IS FOR NUTS

Frenetic Muppet Sarkozy Does Not Think Obama Is Black ‘Scum’

Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy had been engaging in some “heavy petting” during this Congressional Trip, until this moment. During their joint press conference, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour asks Sarkozy if he feels awkward praising black Obama when, only a few years ago, he was calling black French rioters “scum,” the worst word in the world.

Then everyone in the room is like OH SHIT and Sarkozy is like OH SHIT and he rambles for several minutes about how that was in the past, things have changed, and his 3-year-old comment wasn’t nearly as bad as what the United States did to blacks in the past, which was “own them.” And then his wife Carla gets naked on a stool and sings about Obama’s black heroin.

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4:58 PM on Fri July 25 2008
By Jim Newell
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  1. Speed Ball says at 5:06 pm, July 25th, 2008

    Oh my god.

    Barack Obama is black?

  2. AngryBlakGuy says at 5:07 pm, July 25th, 2008

    …I think Sarkozy decided to back peddle a little after seeing how many GERMANS came out for Barry yesterday!

    Too Ben Stein-y?

  3. Actually, she sang Le Plus Beau du Quartier.

    “Regardez-moi
    Je suis le plus beau du quartier
    J’suis l’bien aimé
    Dès qu’on me voit
    On se sent tout comme envouté
    Comme charmé, hum
    Lorsque j’arrive…”

    … It’s funny if you know French.

  4. Doglessliberal says at 5:08 pm, July 25th, 2008

    Frenetic Muppet Sarkozy is a really good name for a band.

  5. PoliticalGraffiti says at 5:11 pm, July 25th, 2008

    he had me at “scum”

  6. NotUrEvryDayWEzl says at 5:11 pm, July 25th, 2008

    AngryBlakGuy: Are you looking to incite violence against two previously-loathing-but-now-gay-lover-powers? That’s not racial transcendence!

  7. WhatTheHeck says at 5:14 pm, July 25th, 2008

    We here in the U.S treat African Americans with great respect, unlike the French.
    See Rodney King.
    See Katrina-New Orleans.

  8. AngryBlakGuy says at 5:17 pm, July 25th, 2008

    NotUrEvryDayWEzl: …nah, just pointing out that Sarkozy probably realized the last time a leader got that many Germans worked up they ran threw France like week old Thai food.

  9. WIDTAP says at 5:19 pm, July 25th, 2008

    Wow. I thought it a unfair burden to make Obama speak of all African Americans, but now he has to speak for all black Frenchmen too.

  10. I think what Sarkozy actually said was that Obama is not scum as far as he knows.

  11. itgetter says at 5:26 pm, July 25th, 2008

    AxmxZ: Elitist!!!

    I was watching this live and my friend heard me say, “Oh god…” She asked me what was going on. The best way that I could explain it was to say:

    “Well, Christian Amanpour just asked the president of France why he called black rioters scum like three years ago and the presidents was like, ‘Listen BITCH, thanks for reading up on recent French history, but that happened before I was even president and besides its not like we beat or killed them. But THANKS, not at all sarcastically, for the cunty question. Next!”

  12. iwillsavethispatient says at 5:27 pm, July 25th, 2008

    AngryBlakGuy: You’re wrong - the last time somebody got that many Germans worked up, it was David Hasselhoff.

  13. polar_bear says at 5:27 pm, July 25th, 2008

    Mais bien sur Monsieur Obama est scum, il est américain, non? ha! ha! Non non, il est un véritable homme de grandeur, malgré le fait qu’il est un nègre.

  14. wheelie says at 5:29 pm, July 25th, 2008

    As a proud citizen of the European Union, I feel like shedding a tear. A bitter, bitter tear.

    I would cling to a gun, only the don’t allow us to have them over here.

  15. AngryBlakGuy says at 5:31 pm, July 25th, 2008

    iwillsavethispatient: …I stand corrected!

  16. Now, press woman, please to hand me back my nuts?

  17. thatonegirlsays says at 5:37 pm, July 25th, 2008

    polar_bear:
    Hahaha, yes. I don’t know how to say laugh out loud en francais…rire…something.itgetter: Best recap…ever

  18. chitownlib says at 5:46 pm, July 25th, 2008

    itgetter: Totes. Must’ve been awkward for Barry.

    It reminds me of my time studying abroad in Amsterdam…the Dutch deny their racism by claiming they love jazz.

  19. sanantonerose says at 5:50 pm, July 25th, 2008

    Shorter Sarkozy: We Frenchies don’t kill our blacks like you Americans do.

    I don’t much like the frenetic muppet, but he did make me say, “OH SNAP.”

    I wonder if he and Barack traded Yo Mama jokes after the presser?

  20. Speed Ball says at 5:59 pm, July 25th, 2008

    Barack will not fail to funk on a nasty, nasty dunk.

  21. Monsieur Grumpe says at 6:07 pm, July 25th, 2008

    Monsieur Sarkozy in his natural state…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uxb0JHqzlA&NR=1

  22. The Incomparable Tiny Valdez says at 6:35 pm, July 25th, 2008

    I always wondered what Christiane Amanpour was like in the sack. I bet she’s an animal.

  23. Wagamuffin says at 7:02 pm, July 25th, 2008

    The French are a most peculiar race…

    Pass me my Freedom Fries!

  24. EnBuenOra says at 7:20 pm, July 25th, 2008

    What, you mean Sarkozy didn’t say “I had a-damn-nuff ‘a ‘Hooo-sayn’”?

  25. TheRealJimbo says at 7:31 pm, July 25th, 2008

    How do you say “PWND!” in French?

    ‘Le PWND!’?

  26. wheelie says at 7:32 pm, July 25th, 2008

    Monsieur Grumpe: Yes, he was drunk in that clip. But as a proud European, I say, “Drunk and be damned!”

    When will America ever learn the awesome power of the European Union? Nicholas Sarkozy is our de facto President of Europe for the six months that France remain in charge of the European Union (ends December 31).

    We brilliant Europeans have a system where a different country is put in charge of running the EU every six months. That’s why everyone in the world looks up to the EU as a model of world democracy. We have consistently been five-star in that whole ‘democracy’ department.

  27. Neilist says at 7:54 pm, July 25th, 2008

    “Oh, the French they are a funny race:
    They fight with their feet and
    They fuck with their face!”

    Sorry, I got a bit giddy with the thought of any French”man” calling anyone else “scum.”

    So I thought I’d launch into the old ditty that was so popular at the CIA during Allen Dulles’ tenure.

    “Oh, the French . . . .”

  28. Cape Clod says at 8:23 pm, July 25th, 2008

    At least their leaders learn to think on their feet, when they get asked a tough question. W just vomits a bunch of irrelevant neo-con talking points together and orders people to shut up when they try to call him on his bullshit.

  29. masterdebater says at 8:26 pm, July 25th, 2008

    It was black FRENCH rioters that he called scum, not Barry. There’s a big difference. For instance, he doesn’t have to live in the same country as Barack, so it’s better. He should have just called Amanpour a cunt and been done with the whole ugly incident.In French, of course, because everything sounds nice in French. He would never make it in America.

  30. itgetter: Come on, admit it, that song has Barry written all over it.

  31. itgetter says at 9:54 pm, July 25th, 2008

    AxmxZ: Well damn you. I googled the song for a translation (because my high school French only got me halfway) and found a recording on Youtube. And I liked it. Did you just turn me elitist *and* gay?

    Also, Sarkozy is going to be soooo pissed when he realizes that Bruni wrote this song for Barry.

  32. lawchic says at 10:45 pm, July 25th, 2008

    That was a REALLY awkward question, but I think dude handled it well. You could just tell he want to call her a brown nosing beyotch :) How awkward for Barack too…Now that I think about it, what the heck did that question have to do with the price of rice in China?

  33. Aurelio says at 11:01 pm, July 25th, 2008

    I don’t understand the premise of war-whore Christiane Amanpour’s question. Is this it:
    according to Sarkozy, black rioters are scum; therefore why isn’t Barack scum, too? Now the suppressed premise has to be: Barack is a black rioter. But that’s unfair. Barack is a mulatto.

  34. Lazy Media says at 11:16 pm, July 25th, 2008

    wheelie:
    SARKOZY:
    I told you. We’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week,…
    OBAMA:
    Yes.
    SARKOZY:
    …but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting…
    OBAMA:
    Yes, I see.
    SARKOZY:
    …by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,…
    OBAMA:
    Be quiet!
    SARKOZY:
    …but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major–
    OBAMA:
    Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
    AMANPOUR:
    Order, eh? Who does he think he is? Heh.
    OBAMA:
    I am your king!
    AMANPOUR:
    Well, I didn’t vote for you.

  35. Quacker says at 11:43 pm, July 25th, 2008

    AxmxZ: Elitist!

  36. Quacker says at 11:45 pm, July 25th, 2008

    polar_bear:
    Fucking Frog!

  37. Quacker says at 11:49 pm, July 25th, 2008

    Lazy Media:
    I believe this….

  38. itgetter: It does and it doesn’t. Bruni says the song is about *her* cross-dressed as a man. That it fits Barry to a T says more about him than her. Also, quite a bit about Sarko.

  39. Quacker: And fucking proud of it.

    *belches*

  40. itgetter: You know what’s really fun also? This clip of “Le Plus Beau du Quartier” set to a montage of ‘House’ clips.

  41. itgetter says at 12:21 am, July 26th, 2008

    AxmxZ: That. blows. my. mind. She sounds like an *awesome* girlfriend.
    AxmxZ: And I would love nothing more than to see Hugh Laurie perform this song. In drag.

  42. Larry McAwful says at 1:17 am, July 26th, 2008

    What a condescending son of a bitch. I thought it was just a stereotype, but it’s true: all conservatives are like that.

    I lived in France for a year, and the most annoying trait I ran across from French people is the far too common tendency to explain how yes, they have problems, but the ones in your country are far worse. You know, like Americans do.

    Six more years to go, and then… what? Will France finally get its first non-Conservative prime minister after thirty years of bad Conservative prime ministers followed by worse ones? Dare to dream.

    Sarkozy is a yutz.

  43. itgetter: Playing the piano himself. With Fry smirking in the background and pouring them both drinks.

  44. itgetter: Although I confess, if Barry picks up an acoustic guitar and sings this, I’ll probably cry from sheer overwhelming FTW.

  45. itgetter says at 2:03 am, July 26th, 2008

    AxmxZ: Obviously.
    AxmxZ: Cry or come? Because for me it’s definitely the second option. (please note my classy spelling of the word)

  46. itgetter: Fuck it, I’ll do both. I’ll even throw in some drool. If I’m to leak hope profusely, why not go whole hog on the orifices?

  47. S.Luggo says at 4:18 am, July 26th, 2008

    After his insult, Sarkozy declares war on the genetically inferior, pink-skinned people of Northern Europe. When losing Burgundy to a band of Latvian peddlers, Nicky demands a time out so that Carla may receive a crotch-shave in Florence. Not happening, he retreats to Chevvy Chase to open a Hungarian goolash stand. Carla? Feh. Not to be seen.

  48. wallythepug says at 6:39 am, July 26th, 2008

    Sarkozy: “I can haz Obama mojo?”

  49. Serolf Divad says at 7:10 am, July 26th, 2008

    itgetter: Brilliant summary, but you left out the part where Amanpour asks: “So you frogs gonna be sinking any Greenpeace ships in the next few days?”

  50. I like how Sarkozy bobs his head up and down while speaking just like Dubya, and towards the end starts mumbling incoherent nonsense, again just like Dubya, and finally congratulates himself for his brilliant comeback . . .

  51. Oscar Folsom Cleveland says at 11:50 am, July 26th, 2008

    Gotta hand to the cocky little Rooster…he’s quick on his feet and good use of toothy grin. I love the French wit, although not happy with his answer, ’cause people did die and were hurt in the riots, and Sarkozy is a bit looney. Ah, but can you ever really hate the French? Non, non!!

  52. donner_froh says at 12:19 pm, July 26th, 2008

    AxmxZ: If the French are so smart why can’t they spell “icki” correctly?

  53. Neilist says at 1:37 pm, July 26th, 2008

    I finally played the clip — rather than accepting the spin put on it.

    Much as I hate the French, I’d say he handed that rather well — and even took a bite out of Amanpour in the process.

    I love the Orwellian use of language: “Scummy Rioters” are “Oppressed Protestors” until their set YOUR car on fire, or club a member of YOUR family to death.

    (Not to say there are some people I could cheerfully set on fire.)

    “Oh, the Liberals are a funny race:
    They flee with their feet
    And get fucked by the facts!”

  54. Neilist:
    re: the rhyming scheme in your attempt at poetry:
    FAIL

  55. Neilist says at 5:39 pm, July 26th, 2008

    sezme: As noted in my prior post, Sezme, it’s a SONG — or more precisely, a “ditty.”

    Re: Your attempts at literacy:

    FAIL!

    (I conced, however, that you did mangage to use your colon correctly — although yours probably is NOT that “road less traveled” that old Bobbie Frost wrote about.)

    :::BITCHSLAP:::

  56. Neilist says at 5:41 pm, July 26th, 2008

    I also concede that would have been a lot better retort without the typo.

    Alas & Alack!

  57. itgetter says at 5:56 pm, July 26th, 2008

    Neilist: Oh snap!

  58. Snarxon's Holler says at 6:58 pm, July 26th, 2008

    Any truth to the rumor that Barry ate sausage and cheese sandwiches at lunch with Gordon Brown today in London?

    Cause it would be funny if he did.

  59. wheelie says at 9:34 pm, July 26th, 2008

    Neilist: Resign immediately, I implore you as a friend. The Internet has standards to maintain.

  60. Neilist says at 1:25 am, July 27th, 2008

    wheelie: Wheelie, I’ve been resigned for years.

    And in despair for longer.

    In fact, I bought the Slough of Despond when the market flattened — you know, back when WALNUTS! followed Joe Lieberman and the rest of the Children of Israel out of Egypt?

  61. BernardFarquart says at 12:51 pm, July 27th, 2008

    More about “Obama’s black heroin” please!

    I think I got an e-mail about that from the clinton campaign…

  62. À la vache avec les français!

  63. kudzu: N’aie pas de la vache, mon vieux!

  64. The girls is all salty
    The boys is all sweet
    The food ain’t too shabby
    And they piss in the street
    In France
    -Frank Zappa

  65. josereyes.theroof says at 6:54 pm, July 27th, 2008

    WIDTAP: Thierry Henry is offended.

  66. Outstando says at 11:13 am, July 28th, 2008

    Il est propre et bien parlé.

  67. Outstando: (And smells delightful.)

  68. finette says at 12:37 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Larry McAwful: Euh? He’s not Prime Minister. And if you’re talking about presidents…Mitterrand was the most recent gauchiste and his last term ended in 1995.

    Condescending verbal pwnage is a skill that all French politicians start learning in their culottes. Ever watch a one-on-one interview with Chirac? He’s like a snapping tortoise, that one.

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