Sarkozy called Israeli PM Netanyahu 'liar'

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

French President Nicolas Sarkozy called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a "liar" in remarks to US President Barack Obama overheard by journalists.

"I can't see him anymore, he's a liar," Mr Sarkozy said in French.

"You may be sick of him, but me, I have to deal with him every day," Mr Obama replied.

The exchange at the G20 summit was quoted by a French website, Arret sur Images, and confirmed by other media.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15635476

[LeftishBrit]

1. I wouldn't trust either Sarkozy OR Netanyahu further than I could throw them!

[Violet_Crumble]

22. Yeah, but Obama says he has to deal with Nutty every day...

It really says something about the bizarre adoration of Nutty that exists in the US when even a RWer like Sarkozy has had a gutful of him, yet Obama just keeps on going back for more and claims he's got to do it.

[Bosonic]

2. I believe an appropriate summary is "awwwwkward"

Although Sarkozy does seem to be given to such candid outbursts, Obama just got caught within his no-diplomacy-event-horizon.

[madrchsod]

3. it takes one to know one......

[goforit]

4. LOL!!! Now boys, ya don't want to hurt widdle Benjamins feelings.

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[msanthrope]

6. Welcome to DU. Try making more sense in your further posts. nt

[Bucky]

It would be like Sarkozy playing golf with...

...wait a minute. I may need a little more time to work through the analogy on this one.

[No Elephants]

26. Hank, is that you? (Good one!)

[JohnyCanuck]

7. Didn't Sarkozy's and Obama's Moms teach them......

If you can't say something nice about someone, don't say anything at all? I guess not.

[Nihil]

8. If that applied across the world, no-one would ever have heard of Netanyahu. (n/t)

[redqueen]

9. I can't blame him for being fed up

with this latest attempt to start a war.

[Celebration]

10. Sarkozy tells Obama Netanyahu is a "liar"

Source: Reuters

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy branded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "a liar" in a private conversation with U.S. President Barack Obama that was accidentally broadcast to journalists during last week's G20 summit in Cannes.

"I cannot bear Netanyahu, he's a liar," Sarkozy told Obama, unaware that the microphones in their meeting room had been switched on, enabling reporters in a separate location to listen in to a simultaneous translation.

"You're fed up with him, but I have to deal with him even more often than you," Obama replied, according to the French interpreter.

The technical gaffe is likely to cause great embarrassment to all three leaders as they look to work together to intensify international pressure on Iran over its nuclear ambitions.



Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/08/us-mideast-netanyahu-sarkozy-idUSTRE7A720120111108

[lonestarnot]

11. Woopsie.

[Enrique]

12. impeach Obama for not kicking Sarkozys ass

its in the Constitution, presidents take an oath to defend the president of Israel against all insults.

[hlthe2b]

15. Well, Sarkozy is the pot calling the kettle black.... but he's still right

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[bemildred]

13. Tsk.

It's so hard to have a private conversation these days.

[MarkCharles]

14. Well, he's right! And even may people in Israel know it! n/t

[LeftishBrit]

35. ESPECIALLY many people in Israel..

He got elected Prime Minister with a whopping 22% of the vote going to his party. Which is even lower than David Cameron's massive 36% in the UK. Both extremes of pure proportional representation (Israel) and the complete lack of it (UK) tend to distort democracy.

[go west young man]

16. These so called" World Leaders" are such a joke.

Obviously the lie spoken of is Iran developing nuclear weapons and threatening Israel. They all know it isn't true.
They all peddle it to keep the world stuck in it's military death spiral and feed the MIC's in their countries.

Sarkozy is a smug little petulant ass. Netanyahu is just another NeoCon, Burlosconi is fucking away the lives of
Italians and Obama is smiling and laughing along with them. Cameron is sending England right down the inflation
tube and Merkel is giving all the German peoples money to Greece. These "leaders" are just a bunch of fuck ups
who should have their own Saturday morning cartoon. Something along the lines of 'That's My Bush".

The irony is that leaders like Chavez and Medvedev and Putin and Morales seem like real leaders compared to these idiots
in charge of the western world.

[harun]

17. LOL, Obama didn't deny it just responded with "Well, I have to deal with the guy".

[Phoonzang]

18. ...........................

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

19. Fux News was attacking Obama this morning for not defending Netanyahu

His failure to disagree with Sarkozy wasn't exactly a ringing endorsement. Obama remembers how Bebe lectured him during one of his visits, as though Obama were a student. Obama knows that Netanyahu is a shit stick, in that you don't know which end to grab, as Netanyahu will always be dissatified with whatever you do.

I suspect that Sarkozy's feelings about Mr. Ultra Right Wing Likudnik are widely shared throughout the world, even inside Israel.

[KamaAina]

21. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day

so Sarkozy has another one coming in twelve hours. :-)

Of course, in Europe, they use 24-hour time, so I guess that's it after all.

[No Elephants]

27. If Sarkozy were correct as often as a stopped clock, it would be a huge improvment over his current

performance.

[Hydra]

23. *lmao*

This is why you don't give nukes to funny little people who want to take over the world...or at least irradiate it to the point that the flies will be all that's left.

You wind up having to put up with them "every day."

:evilgrin:

[Little Tich]

24. Tony Blair thought Netanyahu was an "armour-plated bullshitter", which is in the same vein.

What is it with Netanyahu that makes people dislike him so much? That he's a liar, perhaps?

[LeftishBrit]

36. Tony Blair calling anyone else a bullshitter?

I mean - he's right about Netanyahu, but he needs to look in the mirror!!!

[JI7]

25. it would be interesting to hear some private conversations between world leaders

at least Sarkozy and Obama seem comfortable with each other to say what they want. it's probably not the same with everyone.

[No Elephants]

28. Obama seems comfortable with whomever he is speaking to at the moment.

And, when what he says is made public, that can be a mixed blessing, at best.

[go west young man]

38. I can give you a sample of what you'd get.

Netenyahu " I'm always right about everything"

Burlesconi " I need to get some pussy"

Sarkozy " Do these shoes make me look taller"

Obama " It's cool dude"

[No Elephants]

29. When are public folk going to make sure no one can hear them before they speak?

For example, we spend all this money and piss off many Arabs, some of whom want to kill us for it, trying to make Israel happy and "I have to deal with him every day" gets broadcast?

Do a "sound check" and remember sound can be amplified electronicallyl.

Alternatively, they might speak as though everyone can hear them all the time.

Either option would be better.

[Nihil]

32. When are they going to be honest?

I find it sadly amusing that the proposed solutions to this problem:
> we spend all this money and piss off many Arabs
> trying to make Israel happy
> and "I have to deal with him every day" gets broadcast

is one of the following:

> Do a "sound check"
> speak as though everyone can hear them all the time

and not "Stop spending all this money"

:shrug:

[Scurrilous]

30. McCain: 'Liar' remark indicative of US policy toward Israel

Republican senator slams Franch, American administrations for embarrassing incident, says France has always been like that toward Israel, but Americans should know better

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4145689,00.html

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"French President Nicolas Sarkozy may have stirred media frenzy by calling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a "liar" behind closed doors, but some politicians see it as an opportunity to shift the blame.

Republican Senator John McCain on Tuesday slammed the French and American leaders over their derogatory remarks on Netanyahu, saying that while the "French have always been like that" toward Israel, the United States should know better.

The former presidential candidate was referring to reports that during the G-20 summit, Obama and Sarkozy were overheard on an open mic bashing Netanyahu, with Sarkozy calling him a liar and Obama responding, “You’re sick of him, but I have to deal with him every day.”

In an interview with Fox Network, the Arizona senator said "I happen to be a great admirer of Prime Minister Netanyahu," adding that "Israel is under more pressure and probably in more danger than they’ve been since the ’67 war and that kind of comment is not only not helpful, but indicative of some of the policies towards Israel that this administration has been part of."

[Nihil]

31. It was only ever going to be a question of timing ...

... but I suspect that McCain would be one of the favourites for being
the first American politician to get down on his knees to suck Netanyahu's
cock to make him feel better ...

:eyes:

[Blue_Tires]

34. If McCain has an issue on how Obama handles diplomacy maybe he should run for president

oh, wait...

Johnnie, kindly STFU when the grownups are talking...

[Leftist4Life]

33. Sarkozy is a right-wing thug

I wouldn't take him too seriously on anything.

[GliderGuider]

37. Those damn journalists never obey the RULES!

"Journalists at the bilateral press conference had been handed translation boxes but had been told not to plug in their headphones until the backroom conversation had finished. But those who did heard the revealing comments."

Jesus guys, the rule is, "If there is a mike nearby, assume it's live and that someone is listening in." Sarkoma and Obama werere guilty of what we in technology call an
"ID-10-T error".