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Surprise! French and US Presidents don't like Benjamin Netanyahu

YNet:

The conversation then drifted to Netanyahu, at which time Sarkozy declared: “I cannot stand him. He is a liar.” According to the report, Obama replied: “You’re fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day!”

The remark was naturally meant to be said in confidence, but the two leaders’ microphones were accidently left on, making the would-be private comment embarrassingly public.

The communication faux pas went unnoticed for several minutes, during which the conversation between the two heads of state – which quickly reverted to other matters – was all but open to members the press, who were still in possession of headsets provided by the Elysée for the sake of simultaneous translation during the G20 press conference.

But how dare you question Obama’s commitment to Israel!

He is deeply supportive of the Jewish state. He just believes it needs to undergo a “fundamental transformation”.

(h/t Mark Levin)

42 Replies to “Surprise! French and US Presidents don't like Benjamin Netanyahu”

  1. sdferr says:

    “Will no-one rid me of this troublesome priestly caste?”

  2. newrouter says:

    One of these recent headlines is not like the other; I’m sure it’s merely a coincidence, however:

    Obama Administration Opposes FDR Prayer at WWII Memorial
    Obama Mocks Congress For ‘In God We Trust’ Motto Vote, Ignoring Jobs Bill
    President Obama marks the Hajj and Eid al-Adha

    Link

  3. Joe says:

    I hope the Israeli people have figured out that Obama will throw them under the bus in a heart beat.

    Never again.

  4. Joe says:

    Of course French animus to any Israeli (let alone an “uppity one” like Benjamin Netanyahu) is probably not too much of a surprise.

  5. leigh says:

    The French are kind of like the Japanese in that regard: they feel superior to everyone else.

  6. geoffb says:

    NDA’s again.

    The surprising lack of coverage may be explained by a report alleging that reporters present at the event were requested to sign an agreement to keep mum on the subject of the embarrassing comments.

    A member of the media confirmed Monday that “there were discussions between journalists and they agreed not to publish the comments due to the sensitivity of the issue.”

  7. newrouter says:

    good to know that there is a world wide jourNOlist.

  8. dicentra says:

    Would that fundamental transformation involve making the foundations of all Jewish houses the bed of the Mediterranean?

  9. JD says:

    It is racist to even question Barcky’s commitment to Israel.

  10. serr8d says:

    BHO is still smarting from the spanking he got last time Mr. Netanyahu was in town. ‘Bibi schools O’Bambi’; something that can recur at the drop of a shoe.

    Our little Mr. Prezzident-man is such a SCOAMF.

  11. serr8d says:

    JD! Colts will be first in line for Luck, if y’all actually want to travel the same path that got you at 0-8 today; reliance on a single man to make your team a winner.

    But, damn, the steenking Titans can’t buy a thrill. I can’t really celebrate so much.

    The Texans will win the division? That’s crazy talk, but assuredly it’ll happen.

  12. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Joe, I’m sure the Israelis have it figured out. It’s the American Jews that I worry about.

    And I don’t believe Obama deals with anyone on a daily basis —including his wife and kids.

  13. geoffb says:

    He talks to the ball on a regular basis I’ve heard.

  14. Ernst Schreiber says:

    golf ball, basket ball or Magic 8-Ball?

  15. motionview says:

    geoffb one other line in that section

    He added that while it was annoying to have to refrain from publishing the information, the journalists are subject to precise rules of conduct

    Well those “precise rules of conduct” would be hilarious news to Andrea Mitchell (GE’s clown-nose-off-news division, NBC) and Johnathan Martin (DNC Press Operations, Politico).

  16. geoffb says:

    Rule #1, Democrats are always best, so always help them.

    Rule #2, When ever you feel or think that Democrats are not best see rule #1

  17. mongo78 says:

    Mom and Sis are both Christian fundamentalists – the kind that give people like Rachel Maddow shrieking nightmares. I’m about as close to being an atheist as you can get without actually being named Christopher Hitchens.

    Mom told me that if the United States stands by, again, and lets the nation of Israel be slaughtered, there will be no end to our sorrows. I’m inclined to believe her, no less because we would deserve it, every bit.

  18. bergerbilder says:

    This is OT, but in anticipation of the defeat of issue 2 in Ohio, I plan to send this letter to the local small town fish wrap:

    First, let me say “congratulations” to the public service employees and their unions for the defeat of state issue 2. As I understand, this cost you over thirty million dollars. I hope it was money well spent on your behalf. If the experience of similar legislation, in effect now in Wisconsin, is any guide, you can look forward to having a slightly higher paycheck and more generous pension benefits at the expense of the jobs of many of your more junior employees. Of course, this will increase your individual workloads somewhat, but we, the taxpayers who fund your employment, understand that you will cheerfully accept this added burden on your time and talents.
    However, I feel I need to comment on the campaign that your union leaders, and the democrat politicians who receive virtually 100% of union political contributions, used to persuade the voters of Ohio to bring you this prosperity, and to ask a few rhetorical questions. Do you really expect us to believe that our children will receive a higher quality education with larger class sizes? That we will see lower crime rates and quicker police response time with a smaller police force? That our homeowners’ insurance rates will decline due to a decreased number of firefighters and their firefighting equipment? I use the actual statistics from Wisconsin in asking these questions.
    Let me now get to the real meat of my commentary here. My wife and I have raised 7 children here in the Wadsworth area. We have had many collective years of dealing with public servants including, but not limited to, school teachers, police, sheriff’s deputies, DMV, librarians, court workers, and postal workers. Our experiences, naturally, have been of varying levels of satisfaction, but they have, with only a few exceptions, been cordial and professional. These experiences add greatly to the advantages and positive experience of living in a smaller community like Wadsworth and Medina County.
    The tone of the recent campaign and the general rhetoric of Democrat politicians and their union donors make me feel like a dupe for acting with manners and respect when dealing with public employees for so many years. I do not feel now that they felt the same respect for me that felt for them. I believe that I was only patronized when I was treated decently.
    If you, my fellow taxpayers, now feel as I do, in light of the tone of the last few years of political rhetoric, then I have a suggestion. Use the politics of division and class warfare that the leaders of the public service unions and their politicians have used against us, the people who pay their wages. Let them decide if this is really the way that they want to live, in a divided and rude society. Be cold, do not make eye contact, do not act as if this person is someone you would like to be friends with. You only need to deal with these people occasionally, so any inconvenience that these people may cause you will only be temporary.
    However, they will need to deal with you every minute of every day they are at work. Maybe they don’t really like their present jobs, but I guarantee you that they will enjoy them much less. Let them decide if their union and political leaders have actually improved their lives with their divisive politics, the instruction to “get in their faces” as president Obama has advised. Maybe then, after some time, they can elect union leaders that believe in a civil society.

  19. bergerbilder says:

    I wonder what Dominique Klauss-Barbe, the “Lecher of Lyon”, has to say about all this?

  20. Sarah Rolph says:

    I’m sure there are lots of non-Jew-hating French people, but there is a whole lot of anti-Jew sentiment in France.

    I worked with an American guy who was married to a French woman. They lived here in the US but they thought they might one day move to France, and they liked spending time there. When they had a child, my colleague told me he really liked the name Sarah, but didn’t feel it would be right to give that name to their daughter. Because people might think she was Jewish, you see. And in France, that would be terrible for her.

  21. BuddyPC says:

    Time to queue up the yearbook photos again.

    Wow. The bitter troll and limp wimp whisper in the corner.
    I haven’t seen such an naked display of resentful dick-measuring inadequacy since I took my last wedding party by storm. It would be interesting to read a Dr. Chessler analysis.

  22. motionview says:

    Wow. Bill Curtis, a veteran Chicago journolist, is almost saying straight out this morning that Bialek is a flake with on-going claims of sexual harassment and a propensity to use her sexuality to achieve her objectives.
    There is news out this morning that she demanded to go back-stage and hugged Herman Cain at TEACon last month, whispering in his ear. No one knows what was said, but my guess is This is the Chicago Way.

  23. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Bill Curtis, a veteran Chicago journolist, is almost saying straight out this morning that Bialek is a flake with on-going claims of sexual harassment and a propensity to use her sexuality to achieve her objectives.

    I guess that explains the holes in her employment history of late. Losing her “edge,” I mean.

  24. happyfeet says:

    I think Jiggles is a bona fide whore – I think if Mr. Cain had wanted to stick it to her in DC she’d have had her legs in the air in quicker than he could say 999.

    Just look at her – everything about her screams cheap and easy. Any guy what ever hires Jiggles is gonna have to battle the suspicion that he was just looking for an easy lay.

    That is the cross Jiggles has to bear.

    I think what happened is she left DC feeling that her whorish charms had been rejected, and she never forgot it.

  25. sdferr says:

    It’s not an anti-political thing. It’s not a money thing. She’s just trying to do the right thing, and that takes guts.”

    The current dildo-puppet says: Not anti-political — fine, double-negative — then political. So, cui bono? May as well be open about Sharon. But you aren’t. Why not?

    Not about money? Horsefeathers. Nobody’s that dumb.

    Just trying to do the right thing? bwa-ha-ha-ha-hah-hah-hah. Thanks for the laughs.

  26. sdferr says:

    Oh, and Stony had a terrific hook, good enough to earn a Cy Young award in 1980, but he burned it all: his career was done in ’81.

    As well as becoming acquainted with Cain, Ms Bialek is also said to have dated current White Sox analyst Steve Stone in the 1980s.

  27. happyfeet says:

    Mr. narciso shared this a bit earlier today

    Martha MacCallum, FOX News: “One of the things is that you lived at a 505 North Lake Shore Drive apartment, right? This is the same building, it happens to be the same building David Axelrod lives in. Do you know David Axelrod? Ever have any interaction with him at all?

    Sharon Bialek, Cain accuser: “I saw him in the gym. I mean — everybody nods to each other. It is friendly building but I never had any interaction with him.”

    Jiggles sure gets around

  28. Ernst Schreiber says:

    If you were wondering why the other Cain accosters wish to remain anonymous, look no further

  29. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Jiggles sure gets around

    Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.

    And speaking of “smart, military” bloggers. I wonder what our friend is going to say about Ms. Bialek’s financial and legal troubles. It might be interesting to compare/contrast with what’s been said previously about a allegedly flaky one-time U.S. Senate candidate from Delaware.

  30. Carin says:

    If you were wondering why the other Cain accosters wish to remain anonymous, look no further

    She certainly made the rounds this morning of all the talk shows.

    “I called Gloria …” – humn. How do you just “call up Gloria”?

  31. Benedick says:

    “How do you just ‘call up Gloria’?”

    You just throw your legs open, and the air whooshing through creates a distinctive call that can be heard by whores everywhere.

  32. sdferr says:

    Che Che?

    Bialek said that one of the reasons she came forward to tell her story was that her 13-year-old son thought she should. “My biggest fan is my son. …. I called him and I said, ‘Nick, what do you think I should do?'” He said, ‘Mom, you have to do the right thing. I think you need to tell on him.'”

    “That confirmed it for me,” Bialek said. “If my son is saying it I want to be the role model for him and for other kids growing up that this is not appropriate behavior.”

  33. LBascom says:

    Karl Rove says Allred gives the story credibility.

    No, really

  34. sdferr says:

    As long as credibility is defined as looking past the propensity of women to use their sexuality to gain favors of other kinds, and pretend along with Bialek that she wasn’t lifting her leg inside Cain’s trouser thigh before she planted that deep kiss on his lips. Sure.

  35. Matt says:

    Oh great, she’s ruining Cain’s chance at office “for the children”.

  36. sdferr says:

    The question for us is whether what counts is Cain’s chance at office in contradistinction to our chance as voting citizens at selecting a candidate who will honor the intent of our political organization in the Declaration and Constitution first, over the entrenched interests of an established political class with its own ideas of politics antithetical to those we’d choose to be governed through.

  37. Ernst Schreiber says:

    The scoundrel’s first refuge, Matt.

  38. LBascom says:

    I know when my son was 13 he knew all about the time my boss made a pass at me before he was born and 5 jobs ago.

    And let me tell ya, if the kid hadda told me to call Allred, I would have been on the phone POW!

  39. Squid says:

    Her son was playing Xbox. It’s the voices in her head that told her to call Allred.

  40. LBascom says:

    “It’s the voices digits in her head bank account that told her to call Allred.”

    If I may…

  41. ironpacker says:

    …”How do you call up Gloria?…

    I think it might also involve candles,pentagrams,and the Necronomicon.

  42. ironpacker says:

    Asking your 13 year old son for advice on dealing with sexual harassment isn’t much different than Jimmy Carter asking Amy for advice on US nuclear policy.

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