Angry, shirtless Sarkozy jumps aboard N.H. photographer's boat

[MaineDem]

Source: AP - Maine Today

CONCORD, N.H. — French President Nicolas Sarkozy lost his temper with two American news photographers covering his vacation Sunday, jumping onto their boat and scolding them loudly in French.

The confrontation came Sunday afternoon as Sarkozy and companions were headed for open water in a boat on Lake Winnipesaukee when he spotted Associated Press photographer Jim Cole and freelancer Vince DeWitt aboard Cole's boat, which was outside a buoy barrier monitored by the New Hampshire Marine Patrol.

Before Sarkozy spotted him, Cole had driven his boat up to the patrol boat, identified himself and received permission to be there.

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Sarkozy picked up DeWitt's camera but then put it down. A woman then spoke up in English and relayed Sarkozy's request to be left alone, DeWitt said. The woman did not identify herself.

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Read more: http://news.mainetoday.com/updates/014384.html

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I think I just made the 12-hour deadline.

[IndianaGreen]

1. Sarko vacationing with his mistress

It is no secret that the Sarkos have cheated on one another.

[Hieronymus]

36. So? Europe laughed their asses off at the Clinton/Lewinsky thing. Go back

to church.

[Bonobo]

2. OMG! He "Scolded" Americans! And in French too!!

Sacre Bleu!

[donsu]

5. yeah, I liked that 'scolded' word too. wonder what the writer really

wrote before it was edited.

[JohnyCanuck]

6. Maybe he said "Va te fair foutre"

or perhaps since there were two of them he was addressing, "Allez vous fair foutre."

Wonder if he accompanied it with the appropriate hand getures too?

va te faire foutre

Literally, 'Go do / make yourself.' One of the most vulgar forms of dismissal in the French language. To execute the gesture, make a fist with the right hand, and extend the arm out straight, parallel to the ground, fingers up. With the left hand open, slap the right bicep just above the elbow while raising the right forearm upwards to 90 degrees. Known as the 'Bras d'honneur.'

Roughly equivalent to fuck off, go fuck yourself, up yours, etc.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=va+te+faire+foutre

[bmbmd]

9. Maybe he said

"I fart in your general direction".

[aquart]

13. How Cheneyesque.

[LeftishBrit]

28. 'Mangez la merde!'?

The late Canadian PM Pierre Trudeau is said to have given this advice to a political opponent.

[zanne]

33. If he was on an island in Lake Winnepesaukee.....

I'm sure he expected privacy. Very nice vacation homes on very private islands.

[Skink]

3. Was Bill Murray seen anywhere.

[merh]

4. Freedom Fries!!!

:shrug:

I don't know, it just felt right.

I can't believe he didn't have any body guards or a detail, France is not a favorite of the USofA, no.

[cliss]

7. Luv that Nicolas.

That is one good looking man.

Oh well, he's entitled to his privacy on vacation.

[Roland99]

8. Was he wearing Paris Hilton-style sunglasses?

[Darth_Kitten]

30. Wearing aviator sunglasses and proudly displaying his baby bump?

((snort))) :rofl:

[MisterP]

10. he didn't ignite their boat while shrieking about how dissoluate Muhammad was?

[Schema Thing]

11. When in Rome

[Nutmegger]

12. Sarkozy scolds US photographers

Two American news photographers say French President Nicolas Sarkozy shouted at them and jumped onto their boat during his holiday in the US.

The photographers had gone out onto Lake Winnipesaukee on Sunday to take pictures of Mr Sarkozy, who is staying at a luxury villa in New Hampshire.

They said Mr Sarkozy's boat drew up alongside theirs and he jumped aboard, wearing only his swimming trunks.

He was "very agitated", speaking rapid French "at a loud volume", one said.

Full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6932969.stm

[xchrom]

14. ...

:spray:

stuff like this makes my day.

[demoleft]

15. Sarkozy's holiday mood darkens after furious row in US

Source: The Guardian

The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has lived up to his tough-talking reputation in an extraordinary outburst against two photographers while on holiday in the United States.

A furious Mr Sarkozy, clad only in his swimming trunks, leapt into a boat carrying the paparazzi and began shouting at them after he spotting them taking pictures.

Unfortunately, the president's tirade - delivered in French - was entirely lost on the photographers, neither of whom could understand a word he was saying.

And Mr Sarkozy was unaware they had been given permission by a local marine patrol to be at that spot on the lake.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,,2143132,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront

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Can you picture the scene?!

What a time it must have been...and to be there...

[HereSince1628]

16. Sarkozy the model of contemporary Europe. n/t

[givemebackmycountry]

17. Steph Miller just did a few minutes on this...

Apparently, he also grabbed some woman's breast on his little vacation?
I wonder if Sarkozy was in a Speedo?

Miller is a hoot.
I only recently discovered her.
Did you know she has to tickle her butt to pee?

[Myrina]

18. Wait ... he's vacationing in the US?

Why? I thought we still didn't like those smelly, terrorist-and-poetry-loving French anti-war hippy people.

:sarcasm:

[Ellen Forradalom]

19. Sarko is majorly pro-American

[Terran]

20. That is SO last year.

Now that Sarcoma, er, Sarkozy, is in, we just love the French. :eyes:

[MasonJar]

21. The photographers were lucky; W would have had them shot.

[DBoon]

22. W couldn't swear coherently in any language, either

he probably would have keeled over drunk

[Endangered Specie]

23. Frankily I would have been more scared of a bathing suit clad Merkel

cursing at me in German.

[JVS]

24. Just give her a soothing backrub and she'll be ok with you

[htuttle]

25. SARKOZY: "...Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!"

[BeHereNow]

34. The global elite don't like being pestered by the common folk...

Too bad.
BHN

[demoleft]

26. Some pics of angry Sarko!

From the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, http://www.repubblica.it/2006/08/gallerie/gente/l-ira-di-sarkozy/l-ira-di-sarkozy.html

[City67]

27. I have been sort of curious

To see what the general feeling would be towards Sarkozy since he has come out as so pro America.

[Darth_Kitten]

29. Well the self-loathing, insecure drooling toy poodle post is open......

now that Blair has retired. ;) :hide:

[City67]

31. From what I have read

Sarkozy has started the ball rolling on some much needed reforms to the French economy. He played a large part in EU restructuring and at the G8 summit. He was instrumental in securing the release of the Palestinian and Bulgarian health workers that have been imprisoned for years in Libya for supposedly infecting hundreds of Libyan children with AIDS. And he is taking the lead in a major revamping of Airbus management. Plus I kinda like relations with France getting back on a solid footing. But then I lived in europe for a couple years too so its a fairly personal thing to me. :-)

[Darth_Kitten]

35. Well, whose fault was it that they were "strained" to begin with....

Bet Sarkozy would NEVER blame the U.S. Never.

[AnnieBW]

32. Amazing what people will do

to get away from *.