French President showing how to handle the media.

[Devastatin Dave]

http://www.breitbart.tv/html/7292.html

Good for him. He cut it off but was polite when the reporter pressed a personal question. Do you think he handled it correctly?

[lars573]

Yes. I guess he though she would just keep hounding him about it and left.

[Crazed Rabbit]

I support his actions. Why does she think she can hound him about his relations with his wife?

CR

[Xiahou]

Personally I would've given her a 3rd strike before walking out- but leaving after she asked the same unwelcome personal question twice is fair enough I guess.

[Fragony]

Such a great oppertunity to have an in-depth interview yet she asks about his wife. Typical.

[Banquo's Ghost]

France has a long tradition of hypocrisy about social relationships (and I say that as a good thing). Whereas everyone gossips about this kind of thing in their own circles, it is thought the height of bad manners to publish such dirt. Sadly, the modern Anglo-Saxon approach is gaining ground - and M Sarkozy's contacts in the media seem less able to resist than previously.

M Sarkozy handled the situation very well indeed. No tantrums, just a dignified statement as to where the boundaries lie. The astonished face of the interviewer revealed that she has no concept of those boundaries, nor did anyone in her organisation have the courtesy to research French sensibilities beforehand.

There's many a fine novel about just this kind of France - one might try Chaleur du Sang by Irène Némirovsky (available in English now, as Fire in the Blood).