Ewwww la la -- the WEEKLY STANDARD succumbs to Carlosis

(((Not only is this American neocon journal coming down on Sarkozy like a ton of prurient bricks – wait a minute boys, he's an ardent right-winger, he's supposed to be on your side – but it's a particularly detailed and mean-spirited effort. They're really diggin' up the dirt. I haven't seen this much salivating eagerness out of their camp since the Clinton impeachment.)))

(((How about a similar tell-all for Giuliani, Thompson and the sainted Reagan? Oh wait – would that be too much to ask amidst the mudstorm of Republican gay outings?)))

Link: Ewwww la la.

"Hiding affairs, lying about infidelities, is par for the course in French political life: It's expected. Of course Bill Clinton lied about his sex life, the French will tell you. (There is no French equivalent for the so useful "Duh!")

"The press and the inside-the-périphérique crowd knew all about Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's photographer girlfriend and Ferrari crashes with milk trucks in the wee hours, about Mitterrand's second household and "hidden" daughter, about Chirac's flings with a French-Italian film star and a Japanese gallery owner.

"Nobody was so uncouth as to actually print anything, officially because France's stringent privacy laws prevented it, in reality because it would have been such a pedestrian thing to do. (The privacy fines are low enough that show-business celebrity magazines have hefty budgets set aside to pay them and blithely sell hundreds of thousands of copies a week containing the illegal latest on France's answer to Lindsay, Paris, or Britney.) Not to mention that just about every editor and producer had a similarly complex private life...."

(((This is the takeaway, here....)))

"Sarko finally met Bruni last fall when she came to the Elysée as part of a delegation of artists supporting a White Paper on fighting Internet piracy."