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...Then get out of here, you total jerk.' NICOLAS SARKOZY, President of France, to a man who accused the increasingly unpopular leader of "dirtying" him while greeting constituents at a Paris trade fair. A video of the outburst posted the next day by the newspaper Le Parisien tallied more than half a million hits in just a few hours...
...make me dirty." Visibly piqued, Sarkozy twice ordered the man to "bugger off," the second time adding the insult usually reserved for locker rooms and school yards. Though the incident took only seconds, the exchange was immortalized on camera and uploaded to the web site of French daily Le Parisien, where it had been viewed nearly a million times by Monday morning. Against a background of sliding poll numbers, the video turned the verbal swipe into a political event...
...Director Thomas Langmann - who co-helmed the movie with fellow Frenchman Frédéric Forestier - told the daily Le Parisien that the challenge this time is to "compete with American cinema, without betraying our own identity". To broaden the appeal, he also cast stars from across Europe, like Spaniard Santiago Segura, Germany's Michael Herbig, as well as Australian wrestling colossus Nathan Jones. "We could either have aimed to target 60 million viewers in France alone, or 300 million potential viewers throughout Europe. I decided to go for the second option," Langmann said...
...turns out. Sunday's daily Le Parisien published a new opinion poll showing Sarkozy's public approval rating had dropped seven points since December to 48%. Perhaps just as bad for the reportedly altar-bound Sarkozy, however, was that poll's finding that 48% of respondents said he overexposes his private life...
...Gaddafi must realize our country isn't a doormat upon which a leader, whether terrorist or not, can come to wipe off the blood of his crimes," fumed Rama Yade, the secretary of state for foreign affairs and human rights in Sarkozy's own government, to the daily Le Parisien. Yade noted the Libyan regime's maintenance of police state to repress suspected political opposition left her decidedly "not happy about this visit" - one that begins, she pointed out "on International Human Rights Day". She wasn't the only one to protest Sarkozy's decision to host Gaddafi's first...