French Socialists Stand Up for Privilege

Written by David Frum on Monday May 23, 2011

With the French Socialist Party defending Dominique Strauss-Kahn, should they be renamed as the French Monarchist Party?

Maybe they should just rename the French Socialist Party the French Monarchist Party?

From the em>Telegraph<:

"Why all the fuss? It's merely a bit of hanky-panky with the help," said Jean-François Kahn, the crusading editor of the Left-wing Marianne weekly. Jack Lang, a law don famous for having been François Mitterrand's high-profile, graffiti-loving, diversity-fostering Culture Minister, dismissed it all rather infelicitously as an "overblown" affair: "Really, nobody died in that hotel room."