Comments on: Will the French election affect Amérique? http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/23/will-the-french-election-affect-amrique/ The blog of the mystery writer, screenwriter and CEO of Pajamas Media Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:11:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: moheroy http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/23/will-the-french-election-affect-amrique/#comment-86985 moheroy Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:35:55 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/23/will-the-french-election-affect-amrique/#comment-86985 Robin, What makes you think Mr. Sarkozy is going to really interfere with this? He is hardly right wing in the American sense. Yes, he is a law and order campaigner, but so was Nixon, and Nixon instituted price controls and came very close to setting up socialized medicine. To think Sarkozy will remove the teat is pretty unimaginable, especially to himself. There is a big difference between recognizing the idiocy of the 35 hour week and surrendering the nation to thugs, sorry I mean the youth, and ending the French version of the welfare state. Roy Robin,

What makes you think Mr. Sarkozy is going to really interfere with this? He is hardly right wing in the American sense. Yes, he is a law and order campaigner, but so was Nixon, and Nixon instituted price controls and came very close to setting up socialized medicine. To think Sarkozy will remove the teat is pretty unimaginable, especially to himself. There is a big difference between recognizing the idiocy of the 35 hour week and surrendering the nation to thugs, sorry I mean the youth, and ending the French version of the welfare state.

Roy

]]> By: Robin Munn http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/23/will-the-french-election-affect-amrique/#comment-86984 Robin Munn Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:30:42 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/23/will-the-french-election-affect-amrique/#comment-86984 I'm not optimistic about Sarkozy's chances of winning the run-off. I just don't think the French people are ready to give up on socialism yet. My guess is that the two left-wing candidates split the left vote between them during the general election, while Sarkozy got all the right-wing vote. Which means during the run-off, Royale will pick up the entire left-wing vote and win with at least a 60-40 margin, possibly 65-35. We'll see -- the French people may surprise me yet. But I doubt most of them are ready to give up their comfortable cradle-to-grave benefits, even the ones who understand how much those benefits are costing them. I’m not optimistic about Sarkozy’s chances of winning the run-off. I just don’t think the French people are ready to give up on socialism yet. My guess is that the two left-wing candidates split the left vote between them during the general election, while Sarkozy got all the right-wing vote. Which means during the run-off, Royale will pick up the entire left-wing vote and win with at least a 60-40 margin, possibly 65-35.

We’ll see — the French people may surprise me yet. But I doubt most of them are ready to give up their comfortable cradle-to-grave benefits, even the ones who understand how much those benefits are costing them.

]]> By: moheroy http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/23/will-the-french-election-affect-amrique/#comment-86983 moheroy Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:04:59 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/23/will-the-french-election-affect-amrique/#comment-86983 Yes Fausta, that is sadly true, when it comes to television, and radio, the old guard has a complete lock on them in all of Europe. And sadly the French do not read newspapers like they once did. (Another way in which I think France is more like America than we realize...) However these were all handicaps that the right in America overcame in the days before Fox News. One question I do have is this warm fuzzy blanket of media love obscuring for the left the true desperation of their position. The constant cover up of Royal's gaffes and the instant condemnation Sarkozy receives for even the mildest statement of things many people believe in their hearts? Yes Fausta, that is sadly true, when it comes to television, and radio, the old guard has a complete lock on them in all of Europe. And sadly the French do not read newspapers like they once did. (Another way in which I think France is more like America than we realize…) However these were all handicaps that the right in America overcame in the days before Fox News. One question I do have is this warm fuzzy blanket of media love obscuring for the left the true desperation of their position. The constant cover up of Royal’s gaffes and the instant condemnation Sarkozy receives for even the mildest statement of things many people believe in their hearts?

]]> By: Fausta http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/23/will-the-french-election-affect-amrique/#comment-86982 Fausta Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:17:10 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/23/will-the-french-election-affect-amrique/#comment-86982 Maybe so, mlheroy, but France2 is pushing Royal like there's no tomorrow. Maybe so, mlheroy, but France2 is pushing Royal like there’s no tomorrow.

]]> By: moheroy http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/23/will-the-french-election-affect-amrique/#comment-86981 moheroy Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:27:20 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/23/will-the-french-election-affect-amrique/#comment-86981 The French press has never been all that monolihic, less so I suspect than ours was until recently. The papers you mention, Le Monde, Liberation, are pretty marginal. Le Monde is dull worthy and very establishment left, Liberation was founded by Sartre for pete's sake! I'm surprised you left out Humanite... How about Le Figaro, which is one of the top newspapers, while hardly pro American, it is French after all, is by no stretch of the imagination a paper of the left. I have never really found it hard to find right wing opinion in France. When I watched the returns on France 24 the presenters seemed absolutely giddy with Sarkozy's victory. Not surprising when you realize that it is the creature of TF1 and the old RPR. One must welcome one's new masters after all, and the defeat of the left only makes that easier for them. The French press has never been all that monolihic, less so I suspect than ours was until recently. The papers you mention, Le Monde, Liberation, are pretty marginal. Le
Monde is dull worthy and very establishment left, Liberation was founded by Sartre for pete’s sake! I’m surprised you left out Humanite…

How about Le Figaro, which is one of the top newspapers, while hardly pro American, it is French after all, is by no stretch of the imagination a paper of the left. I have never really found it hard to find right wing opinion in France. When I watched the returns on France 24 the presenters seemed absolutely giddy with Sarkozy’s victory. Not surprising when you realize that it is the creature of TF1 and the old RPR. One must welcome one’s new masters after all, and the defeat of the left only makes that easier for them.

]]> By: Terrye http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/23/will-the-french-election-affect-amrique/#comment-86980 Terrye Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:42:55 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/23/will-the-french-election-affect-amrique/#comment-86980 Yeah, they might start thinking the press is full of it just like the politicians. You can some of the people all of the time and you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time. Yeah, they might start thinking the press is full of it just like the politicians.

You can some of the people all of the time and you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.

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