You can see Sarkozy in action at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nc4XL7CnS0 however, its fairly uneventful.

what happened with the audio Norm? I'm looking at it in Linux and getting the elf-voice effect, using the usual gstreamer plugins on FF in Ubuntu. I'll check it later on the Mac and windooz, but I've never had trouble before in Linux with your vids, you might have had a file transfer issue there.

I guess it was probably the Friday before last, but I was watching one of those soapy segments on CBS's Evening News where a grade-school kid had saved his friend's life using the Heimlich manuever. The interviewer asked one of the other kids if the victim was her boyfriend. Simply ridiculous.

Love it - and Maher was right - Clinton should have said it straight up to everyone - it's none of your damned business and then stuck to that.

Politicians would like to make all sorts of things off limits for reporters. Sometimes they can sometimes they can't and it has nothing to do with what should be off limits or not. Bush didn't just do it with his cocaine use, he also did it with his military record (which is relevant to an election), and got away with that too. In the case of 1998, there is no way that Clinton would have gotten away with "none of your business". Anita Hill was just a few years before that; liberals were not exactly in a position to say "what's it to you if I have sex with my intern?"

"The interviewer asked one of the other kids if the victim was her boyfriend. Simply ridiculous."

It really is sad. Some viewers eat that stuff up, but I can't imagine many do. Most people are pretty disgusted by that, I think. The reporter has no clue.

..so.. asking the president about his habit of substance abuse, and asking the president about whether he's screwing his wife - I mean, what's the difference!

This didn't really happen the way people claim it did.

People are framing it like the reporter asked him "Are you fucking your wife?" and the French President called her names, then marched out while La Marselleise played.

The guy was being rude from the beginning, yelling at his secretary, calling everyone "imbecile". The woman then asked him a question about something that was being reported all over the world, and was a big topic in France, and the guy said "no comment" and walked off politely.

And guess what: he did divorce his wife. Which is what everyone was asking him.

I still think we're missing the point here. He sits down for an interview, with perhaps one of the most well- known contemporary American journalists today. And he gets something like:

"So as we all know, France has had a difficult relationship with the United States for the last couple of years, and diplomatic relations seem to be a thing of the past, notwithstanding the snide threats coming out of the White House - and I guess the only thing I and the American people really want the answer to is: are you going to divorce your wife?"

Now that's stupid. And pray, never make me defend or, curse me, agree with Sarkozy ever again.