Since the British press have been having all sorts of fun over the “snub”* Gordon Brown thanks to a canceled meeting with John McCain it’s worth noting that press sillyness is not confined to the anglosphere by any means. Art Goldhammer has the details:
Le Figaro has a perfidious piece on Ségolène Royal’s visit to the US. It leads with the insinuation that she was somehow snubbed by Barack Obama because she attended his rally without obtaining a picture of herself with the candidate. I said yesterday that I would not share my private impressions of Mme Royal, but in this case I will make an exception, because I had a conversation with her about the Obama rally. It came up because I asked her if she was following the American election campaign–it was Ash Wednesday, the day after super-Tuesday in our Christian political calendar–and she told me how interesting it had been to watch Barack in action and to see the crowd’s reaction to his unique speaking style.

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