*Somehow, this performance is probably less weird than it looks. I'm trying to imagine an American equivalent for a political ad of this kind. I don't think there is one.
*However, I do think that America's pathetic romance with Sarah Palin has a great deal to do with the Sarkozy's desperate, but wondrously successful, lunge for Carla Bruni. They were two culture-war gambits by two right-wing parties, but hippie temptress Carla is somehow the picture of reassuring propriety while family-values Sarah became a scandal-trumpeting Rogue Elephant. Man, in politics, nothing ever works predictably.
*Just look at all these perky ministers of Sarkozy's cheerily hamming it up, secure in their command over the public imagination. Without a Premiere Dame who's a classy chanteuse, a stunt of this kind makes even less sense. But they have one, so the French right makes the French Left look even more aged, monochrome and elephantine than the French Left already is.
*I mean – what's the Left going to do now? Out-dress them? Out-dance them? Out-sing them? It's not even possible. If they ridicule them for "looking stupid," then there's even less room to talk about the Left.
*They may have missed a guest appearance by Sarkozy son "DJ Mosey" in there – that sure looked like him, anyhow, DJ Mosey, the French hip-hop producer. Maybe it was his brother, a big wheel in the UMP youth wing.
*I also noted two brief flashes of augmented-reality in this ad. Yike.
http://timescorrespondents.typepad.com/charles_bremner/2009/12/sarkozys-rocking-ministers.html
"Here is a video of an all-singing, all-dancing version of Nicolas Sarkozy's cabinet of ministers. It is so preposterous that on first watching many people thought it was a gag. (((It IS a gag, which makes it even more effective..))) Ministers and senior officials of Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement display their stage talent, lip-synching and dancing in this performance for a campaign advertisement for the forthcoming regional elections...."
