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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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Oh my god.
Barack Obama is black?
…I think Sarkozy decided to back peddle a little after seeing how many GERMANS came out for Barry yesterday!
Too Ben Stein-y?
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.
Frenetic Muppet Sarkozy is a really good name for a band.
he had me at “scum”
AngryBlakGuy: Are you looking to incite violence against two previously-loathing-but-now-gay-lover-powers? That’s not racial transcendence!
We here in the U.S treat African Americans with great respect, unlike the French.
See Rodney King.
See Katrina-New Orleans.
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.
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.
I think what Sarkozy actually said was that Obama is not scum as far as he knows.
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!”
AngryBlakGuy: You’re wrong - the last time somebody got that many Germans worked up, it was David Hasselhoff.
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.
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.
iwillsavethispatient: …I stand corrected!
Now, press woman, please to hand me back my nuts?
polar_bear:
Hahaha, yes. I don’t know how to say laugh out loud en francais…rire…something.itgetter: Best recap…ever
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.
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?
Barack will not fail to funk on a nasty, nasty dunk.
Monsieur Sarkozy in his natural state…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uxb0JHqzlA&NR=1
I always wondered what Christiane Amanpour was like in the sack. I bet she’s an animal.
The French are a most peculiar race…
Pass me my Freedom Fries!
What, you mean Sarkozy didn’t say “I had a-damn-nuff ‘a ‘Hooo-sayn’”?
How do you say “PWND!” in French?
‘Le PWND!’?
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.
“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 . . . .”
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.
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.
itgetter: Come on, admit it, that song has Barry written all over it.
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.
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?
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.
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.
AxmxZ: Elitist!
polar_bear:
Fucking Frog!
Lazy Media:
I believe this….
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.
Quacker: And fucking proud of it.
*belches*
itgetter: You know what’s really fun also? This clip of “Le Plus Beau du Quartier” set to a montage of ‘House’ clips.
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.
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.
itgetter: Playing the piano himself. With Fry smirking in the background and pouring them both drinks.
itgetter: Although I confess, if Barry picks up an acoustic guitar and sings this, I’ll probably cry from sheer overwhelming FTW.
AxmxZ: Obviously.
AxmxZ: Cry or come? Because for me it’s definitely the second option. (please note my classy spelling of the word)
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?
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.
Sarkozy: “I can haz Obama mojo?”
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?”
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 . . .
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!!
AxmxZ: If the French are so smart why can’t they spell “icki” correctly?
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!”
Neilist:
re: the rhyming scheme in your attempt at poetry:
FAIL
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:::
I also concede that would have been a lot better retort without the typo.
Alas & Alack!
Neilist: Oh snap!
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.
Neilist: Resign immediately, I implore you as a friend. The Internet has standards to maintain.
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?
More about “Obama’s black heroin” please!
I think I got an e-mail about that from the clinton campaign…
À la vache avec les français!
kudzu: N’aie pas de la vache, mon vieux!
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
WIDTAP: Thierry Henry is offended.
Il est propre et bien parlé.
Outstando: (And smells delightful.)
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.