(((He's a cagey guy; Sarkozy; he kinda cooled it after the inevitable election setbacks, but now he's rolling her out like a neutron bomb. The "green-eyed Italian witch" is more popular than he is. LOTS more popular.)))
Link: AFP: Press go Carla crazy as Sarkozy visits.
Press go Carla crazy as Sarkozy visits
9 hours ago
LONDON (AFP) — Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, French President Nicolas Sarkozy's new wife, dominated the British press on Thursday, drawing comparisons to Princess Diana and Jackie Kennedy.
The former Italian supermodel was pictured on the front page of nearly every major British paper, shown wearing an elegant grey Christian Dior outfit with matching beret. (((That's right. Hot French chick in a beret. Live with it, you peasants.)))
Sarkozy's visit, his rare address to both Houses of Parliament and an announcement that France will increase its troop numbers in Afghanistan were, meanwhile, almost reduced to an afterthought.
The Daily Mirror probably summed up the mood of most of the country's press when it wrote in an editorial in its Thursday edition, ahead of the second day of the two-day state visit: "President Sarkozy is welcome to come again – as long as he brings wife Carla." (((Hey yeah.)))
The coverage was a welcome contrast to a full-frontal nude photograph of Bruni-Sarkozy dating from 1993, to be sold by Christie's auction house, published in a number of British tabloids on Wednesday. (((Gets the numbed attention of the page-3 reader.)))
The Daily Mail alluded to that photograph on its front page, highlighting its "Picture special on Carla's state visit (and this time she remembered to put some clothes on)", describing her inside the newspaper as the "First Lady of Chic".
Robert Hardman, a columnist for the paper, wrote that he "didn't hear anyone discussing the state of bilateral relations."
"In her immaculate little grey suit and her pillbox hat, Carla was the only topic of conversation...."
