Of Flies, Armbands and Rolling Over…

For a short article that repeats one of its main points, a lot of compelling notions are floated in this news brief about Jean Plantu's caricature work on French politician Nicolas Sarkozy. One is that when Plantu added a fly to a cartoon portrait of Sarkozy, the politician was familiar enough to write the longtime Le Monde fixture with concern that the fly had previously been a sign the cartoonist used to mark his depictions of Jean Marie Le Pen. The cartoonist replied by adding more flies and an armband. It's hard to imagine a North American politician being that familiar with one cartoonist's visual cues, or most cartoonists digging in like that when challenged. There's also the notion floated that Plantu goes after Sarkozy so savagely because of the perception that the other editorial parts of the paper were much too lenient in their dealings with him.
 
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