3 responses to “Sarkozy Vows to Punish Gun-Toting Rioters”

1. 

   Anderson

   November 28, 2007 at 2:41 pm

   Right, like the NYT headline about how Sarkozy found the riots “unacceptable.” What else would he say? “Rock on, dudes”?
2. 

   James Joyner

   November 28, 2007 at 2:44 pm

   Right, like the NYT headline about how Sarkozy found the riots “unacceptable.” What else would he say? “Rock on, dudes”?

   Indeed. I guess reporters, in their role as stenographers to power, often just write the stuff down and spit it back. It’s sometimes rather amusing, though.
3. 

   yetanotherjohn

   November 28, 2007 at 3:54 pm

   On the other hand, if we hear of deployment of Légion étrangère to Paris, then we will both know he is serious and what form “severely punished” is likely to take.