I love Elvis too...

So, Sarko loves Elvis. Now there's a surprise. I wonder what he was thinking when he answered the question? 'I'll be on air to 15 million Americans so I'd better not say Claude François...' We know you want us to think you're rock and roll. It's obvious, the Ray Bans, the NYPD T-shirt, those oh-so-rock high heels... But honestly, Nicholas, Elvis Presley? Too obvious. Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash, now that'd have got you some credit...

I fully intend to do what I said I would and review the French media, but for some reason, I thought a good place to start the ball rolling was the '60 Minutes' dedicated to the President (of France), broadcast last Sunday (28.10.2007). I say 'some reason' but its actually a very precise one. '60 Minutes' is the bastion of US 'pop' journalism (Pop in the sense of mainstream, not rock and roll. Sorry Speedy). Every Sunday night more than 10 million viewers tune in. And it's a pretty solid barometer of middle-american opinion. So what did they have to say on Super Sarko?

Well, it's no suprise that we saw the pro-American, young, (over-)energetic reformer. Lesley Stahl even went as far as to paint him as a bit of an underdog - poor-old-Nicolas-son-of-an-immigrant-no-one-ever-thought-he'd-get-anywhere-in-France-with-a-name-like-Sarkozy....

To be honest, the now infamous 'walk-out' on THE interview was a little shameful. One of those 'from behind the cushion' moments. He's not... oh, he is... there he goes... No evasion of the 'Cécila' question, 'Remind us, why did you wife dump you, again?' Nope, he just spat the dummy.

Hang on, he didn't just call his press secretary an imbecile did he? Oh, he did...

I just wonder what the Americans thought of the a performance.

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