The UK Daily Mail quite self-consciously (and quite rightly) considers itself a step above the British tabloids, or perhaps a step and a half. Or an entire flight of stairs, for that matter. But they are British, and thus will happily report salacious details… if they’ve been suitably bowdlerized, of course.
Disgraced banker Dominique Strauss-Kahn told an Air France hostess she had a ‘nice a**e’ just moments before police hauled him off his flight, it has been claimed.
You have to wonder if this guy is all there, or something. In terms of karma? That’s Just Asking For It.
James Taranto reports on one of DSK’s fellow socialist’s blogs, to wit:
Gilles Savary, a member of the European Parliament who belongs to Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s Socialist Party, wrote on his blog that the arrest of Mr. Strauss-Kahn had hints of American-style hypocrisy. “Everyone knows that Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a libertine, and that he is distinguished from others by the fact that he doesn’t try and hide it,” he wrote. “In puritanical American [sic], infiltrated by rigorous Protestantism, financial misdeeds are far more tolerated than pleasures of the flesh.”
It’s all part of the French Macho Culture.