Thursday, February 08, 2007

Pundit, French style


(Le Monde: AP/Michel Euler)

In today's Wall Street Journal (subs. req'd; alt. free link), one of the few French intellectuals well-known in the US, Bernard-Henri Levy, writes of his recent dinner with Socialist candidate for President, Ségolène Royal --

A man at a neighboring table comes over to tell her he admires her. She stands, oddly moved, blushing a deeper pink than her suit, happy, her long, pretty neck rippling with pleasure.

Could it be that Levy is the thinking man's Chris Matthews?

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