Palin Prank Called for Seven Minutes by Comedy Duo Posing as Sarkozy

It'd be funny if it wasn't so fucking scary.



Obviously, this demonstrates the very real dangers of sitting down with world leaders without preconditions...

(Makes the phonebanking I did today all the more worth it.)
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An Interesting Omission by Jack Kelly

In today's P-G, conservative columnist Jack Kelly compares newly elected French President Nicolas Sarkozy to the late Ronald Reagan:

How do you say "Ronald Reagan" in French? Many in Europe's establishment fear it might be "Nicolas Sarkozy."

And quotes the French President-Elect:

In his victory speech, Mr. Sarkozy said: "I want to make an appeal to our American friends: to say to them they can count on our friendship, which has been reinforced by the historical tragedies we have encountered together. I want to say to them that France will always be at their side when they need her help."

Wanna see what follows in Sarkozy speech? Wanna see the part that comes right after where J-Kel stops quoting?

I knew you would. Here's that section of the speech from the BBC. The words are a little different, remember, because Sarkozy's speaking French and different translators will translate the same words differently. In any event, I'll italicize all the material the P-G's conservative columnist dutifully omitted.

I want to issue an appeal to our American friends, to tell them that they can count on our friendship, which has been forged in the tragedies of history which we have faced together.

I want to tell them that France will always be by their side when they need it, but I also want to tell them that friendship means accepting that your friends may think differently and that a great nation such as the United States has a duty not to put obstacles in the way of the fight against global warming, but on the contrary to take the lead in this fight, because what is at stake is the fate of humanity as a whole. France will make this battle its primary battle.

That is different, isn't it? Gee, I wonder why Jack Kelly would omit from the French President-Elect's speech all that stuff about how "...the United States has a duty not to put obstacles in the way of the fight against global warming..."

Let's see. He's written that it's the sun that's caused the most recent global warming and that since sun spot activity (and with it it's correlated warming trends) are expected to go down in the next few decades, he's hoping that the current science (which he calls "hypothetical piled upon hypothetical and computer models which cannot duplicate the actual climate of the present or the recent past") is actually correct, because it's better to be warmer than colder.

Jack, Jack, Jack. Did you think no one was gonna check your work?