((("She's a dessert topping – no no, she's a floor wax." No wonder they're laughing in the Elysee.)))
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/cartoon-carla-fiction-ndash-or-fact-1035184.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/cartoon-carla-fiction-ndash-or-fact-1035184.html
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The 62-page cartoon book, researched by one of France's best-known investigative journalists, (((oooh))) manages to add new details to this familiar story (backed up by two pages of scholarly footnotes). The book reveals, for instance, that President Nicolas Sarkozy is known to his own staff at the Elysée Palace as "Carlito" – or little Carla – because he has fallen so deeply under the influence of his wife.
(((Aw, that's nothing – they used to call wife #2 "the control tower." The guy pays close attention when women talk to him. That's probably why he's got such superb political abilities.)))
The facts are mingled with unashamed fantasy and told through inspired imagery, such as a sequence of Disney-like frames showing Carla Bruni hypnotising the President with cat-like eyes and a front-cover image showing a tall, confident Carla carrying a tiny President in a baby sling. The book also includes a passage from an article about Carla Bruni from The Independent last March, which is reproduced in a bubble coming from the mouth of a reader. (...)
Fantasy is one thing; politics is another. The authors, the investigative journalist Philippe Cohen and storyline writer, Richard Malka, have attempted in satirical comic-book form to make a contribution to a growing political debate in France. Who on earth is Carla Bruni? And what does she want? (((She's a European aristocrat with arty instincts and bohemian allure who is going to become the First Lady of Europe. Puzzle solved; live with it.)))
The nation's first impressions, that the Italian-born Mme Bruni-Sarkozy was an air-head and adventuress in quest of public attention and new experiences, are beginning to fade. ((("Barack Obama – skinny black guy with weird name."))) They are being replaced by another image of Mme Bruni-Sarkozy as a clever, manipulative – and perhaps, given the country of her birth, Machiavellian – woman with a personal and political agenda of her own.
Carla and Carlito comes down on the Machiavellian side of the argument....
