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Actually, this is the one I meant to post up:

Go the the last 15 second, paraphrasing:

You make more than ff4 millions, 100% tax, I take it all

He then proceeds to ridicule the journalists for being disrespectful and uncooperative, as they likely will be impacted by this proposal and want to use the press organs to decredibilize him...

Good stuff, entertaining too, and if you like many other educated folks (and some less educated, like Clavier) think of him as looking somewhat foolish here, that's because you are perhaps not the target audience.

The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet. Winston Churchill

by r------ on Thu Apr 3rd, 2008 at 09:31:26 AM EST
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I cannot follow his spoken French enough to judge for my educated self whether he makes a fool of himself, or is it the MSM journalists who try to get him appear so, or (since the latter seems rather conclusive from body language) both. If you'd post this in a diary with a transscript once you have time, that'd be fun.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Fri Apr 4th, 2008 at 03:47:07 AM EST
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That's about a half-million Euros? Seems like a high enough threshold.

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Apr 11th, 2008 at 01:54:50 AM EST
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