I don't really have the time for this, but since I posted my outrage concerning Obama's Nobel Prize win last week, there's no reason I shouldn't post my total and utter disgust about this complete fuckery (apologies if you're following me on twitter/are my facebook friend, this may seem redundant)
Nicolas Sarkozy says son 'thrown to the wolves' in nepotism row over job
Likely appointment as chairman of public agency running La Défense of Jean Sarkozy has sparked anger and ridicule
Jean Sarkozy's backers insist he is qualified to chair the EPAD . Photograph: Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty ImagesThe French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has weighed into an increasingly bitter nepotism row involving the likely appointment of his student son Jean to a top job, by defending his son and accusing his attackers of acting like pack of wolves.
Jean Sarkozy, 23, who has yet to finish a law degree, is tipped to be chairman of the public agency running La Défense, one of Europe's biggest business districts, in Paris.
The likely appointment of "Prince Jean" to a job that his father once held has been the source of widespread anger and ridicule by those who see it as an affront to France's egalitarian values.
Today, challenged on the issue by reporters, Sarkozy said: "It is never right when someone is thrown to the wolves without any reason and in an excessive fashion."
He added: "What counts in France is not to be born to a wealthy family, but to have worked hard and to have proved your worth through your studies and your labour."
Jean Sarkozy's backers have insisted that he is qualified to chair the EPAD, the quango that runs La Défense. They point to his election as a councillor in the Hauts-de-Seine region last year and his experience since of leading the rightwing majority party in the area.
"Jean is the son of a political genius so it's not surprising that he is precocious," Thierry Solère, vice-president of the Hauts-de-Seine council, told Reuters.
But in a leading article the newspaper Le Monde accused the Sarkozys of acting like a royal family. "There are certain things you don't do and don't allow," it said.
More than 50,000 people have added their names to an online petition urging Jean Sarkozy to drop out as a candidate for the job.
His rapid promotion has also been satirised on television and Twitter, with some joking that he is to set to become an astronaut, the secretary general of the UN, and the next pope.
"If he did not have the name he has, would he be where he is today?" asked Ségolène Royal, Sarkozy's rival in the presidential election in 2007.
Jean Sarkozy has brushed off the attacks. In an interview with Le Parisien newspaper he said that whatever he accomplished in life, "my legitimacy will always be on trial". Asked if he had talked with his father about his plans, he said: "Of course I informed those who are close to me, that's normal. That said, I'm following my own path."
SOURCEMy comment: NO FUCKING WAY.
THIS IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE.
THIS IS COMPLETE SHIT.
WHAT IS THIS COUNTRY? A MONARCHY?!
How many 1000000 times more qualified individuals are going to be passed over for this job in favour of this git (who is 23 and only in his second year of law, because he repeated both his 1st and 2nd year).
I AM MORE QUALIFIED!
The bit in bold is the bit I agree with/participate in.