Comments on: France’s Sarkozy teaches 60 Minutes a Lesson

By: Foxfier

Foxfier — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:33:37 +0000

I think I like this guy.

Highly personal questions like that really don’t need to be asked.

By: SPQR

SPQR — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:21:31 +0000

Given the level of corruption in French politics, I’m not impressed by the amount of deference French media give their politicians and I’m not impressed by the insufferable arrogance of all European politicians and their sneering at being questioned.

That said, it is amusing to Stahl shown for the vapid faux journalist that she is.

By: driver

driver — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:19:31 +0000

Ha! I think Pablo makes a good point!

By: Pablo

Pablo — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:59:51 +0000

Sarkozy is of recent Hungarian extraction, which explains his unFrenchness.

By: Scott Jacobs

Scott Jacobs — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:49:42 +0000

I feel like I should write the guy and appologize…

By: Kent

Kent — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:37:09 +0000

I’m surprised he didn’t get up and leave at the very beginning when Stahl made those condescending hand gestures, saying something along the lines of “Let’s take a deep breath and just calm down” like he was a 12 year old. Stahl’s an idiot. The stupidity and bias out of 60 Minutes never ceases to amaze.

By: David Ehrenstein

David Ehrenstein — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:49:16 +0000

It’s NOT hot gossip in France. The French consider te ersonal lives of their politicians to be off-limits. Not so Americans and the “Mainstream” media. Leslie Stahl and her ilk would love nothing better than to “get inside” (as Timm Russert so often says) the Clinton’s marriage — instead of dealing with actual Clinton politics. It’s Beyond Pathetic.

Whether one agrees with him or not, Sarkozy is a highly interesting political figure. But “60 Minutes” has no way of getting at why this is so.

By: Dana

Dana — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:56:07 +0000

My estimate of the French has gone up a notch.

By: Scott Jacobs

Scott Jacobs — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:56:04 +0000

If Bill CLinton’s sex life wasn’t supposed to be an issue for us, why should we care about Sarkozy’s?

Stahl = epic phale.

By: dave

dave — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:48:36 +0000

It may have been hot gossip in France but since 60 Minutes targets an American audience, no one really cares.