Of Scum and of CNN Reporters

During a press conference featuring Barack Obama and French President Nicholas Sarkozy, CNN's notoriously obtuse Christiane Amanpour wants to know whether President Sarkozy is regretful for referring to his country's rioters and car-burners--most of whom were African immigrants--as scum back when he was France's Interior Minister, now that he has a actual scum person of African descent standing next to him.

Don't you love how Leftists project their own racism onto others?

Hey Christiane! Sarkozy's epithet 'scum' had nothing to do with France's rioters being of African descent. He called them scum because they were destroying other people's property and endangering lives. If Barack Obama starts burning cars or does something similar, he will become scum--he wasn't born scum, no matter how much you might believe it to be so. As a matter of fact, if you start burning cars you will have also become scum without having one bit (as far as I know) of African heritage. See how that works? Of course you don't, because, while you may not be scum, you are indeed an ideologue and not one bit of information which isn't on your approved ideology menu will penetrate that thick skull of yours.

(Thanks to Fausta)

Comments

[Rustmeister]

Speaking of projecting racism:

http://rustmeister.blogspot.com/2008/07/arkansas-recalls-license-plates.html

[Khaki Elephant]

And one has to love a reporter who is self-indulgent enough to deliver a question in the form of a soliloquy.

[Donna B.]

Not to be picky, but I think it's "Christiane".

There's a rhythm to her name and "Christine" just wrecks it.

None of that keeps her from being an idiot.

You've also got to love Sarkozy calling affirmative action positive discrimination. Wow...

I'm not sure I'd be proud of only the police, and not the rioters, suffering any wounds.

[baldilocks]

That doesn't wreck anything, Donna. That helps; thank you.

And, yeah, Sarkozy's answer was weak, but not offensive.

[Steve Skubinna]

It's hard to tell, what with Sarkozy's answer being filtered through an interpreter, but at times I got the impression he was being sarcastic.

All the same, I think his response ought to have been along the lines of "How many cars has Mr. Obama torched? Why do you think the term "scum" applies to him?"

The intelligentsia cannot forgive Sarkozy for being to the right of the typical French politician. He (and Merkel) undercuts the narrative of enlightened European progressivism.