Voodoo Politics
A publishing company has launched a game which has become the subject of a lawsuit by French President Nicholas Sarkozy.
K&B Publishing has issued a kit containing a voodoo doll (or "poupee vaudou") resembling M. President emblazened with some of his more unfortunate public remarks; a set of instructions and tiny pins. The idea is, whenever you get angry at Sarkozy for his policies, his flashy excesses in a time of dire economic turmoil or for calling various groups of people he disagrees with "scum", you stick the pins in the voodoo doll. Which is supposed to make you feel better, and has the added benefit, if you believe in such things, of causing the French President a degree of physical discomfort.
A harmless way to poke (literally) fun at politicians? Not according to Sarkozy's lawyers, who claim despite the fact he is a public figure, he continues to control the exclusive use of his likeness. And he is not interested in granting those rights to anyone who ridicules him and/or encourages Sarko-haters to stab his effigy with little color-coded pins.
I wonder how he'd fare on SNL?
Controlling his likeness?
Looks like Sarko has been pallin' around with Prince. What's next? Refusing to come to the dais for a news conference until everyone turns off their cell fones?!?!
one hopes Sarkozy would do better on SNL than he did on CNN with Leslie Stahl. He's already doing better than McCain - at least he picked Carla Bruni to live in the Elysée Palace with him, not some moose nugget from Alaska.
allors, la vie d'une célébrité!!
October 22, 2008 1:43 PM | Reply | Permalink