Saturday, May 21, 2011

DSK and Elite Attitudes

Writing in The Weekly Standard, Christopher Caldwell explores French attitudes regarding the fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn:

There are two ways to look at the anger that rose up in the French press after Strauss-Kahn, disheveled and humiliated, was photographed after his arrest. The first is to see an understandable discomfort with an act of lèse-majesté. The other is to see a public grown servile and sycophantic. The French press may have been worried about seeing Strauss-Kahn’s name dragged through the mud, but it was quite content to print the name of his alleged victim.

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