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Old 11-06-2005, 01:41 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Ahh... the Sarkozy/Chirac gap widens. What a shame, they used to be so cute together.

Sarkozy will play this smart... he's already tried to take a hard-line, but not so hard to commit himself completely. Villepin will hang himself with half-measures and Chirac will go down w/him while Sarkozy will come away smelling like roses. My, how the tables have turned. The apprentice has become the master.

Anyway, enough of French politics and my attempts to suppress schadenfreude. Like many of you, I feel like I'm not getting the whole story from the AP dispatches. Check out the AP's pool of photographs... not a single snapshot of the riots and/or rioters in progress. The press's aversion to the word "muslim" in any negative context is showing.
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