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French finance minister denies twanging journalist's panties
Straits Times/AFP ^ | 4/23/2016 | uncredited

Posted on 04/27/2016 12:25:49 PM PDT by RightGeek

PARIS (AFP) - French Finance Minister Michel Sapin on Friday (April 22) denied "slanderous" accusations that he pulled the exposed elastic of a journalist's underwear as she bent over in his presence.

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The authors of the book, journalists Stephanie Marteau and Aziz Zemouri, recount the incident between the minister and another unnamed journalist during the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos in 2015.

They write that the journalist had bent over to pick up a pen when a "minister ... the occupant of Bercy (where the finance ministry is based)" said: "Ah, but what are you showing me here" and snapped the elastic of her unintentionally exposed underwear.

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According to the authors of the book, Sapin's office brushed the incident off at the time, saying: "It was a schoolyard prank and the journalist flew off the handle."

A member of Sapin's team is quoted in the book saying: "He doesn't understand the fuss and is very surprised at the turn the case has taken."

(Excerpt) Read more at straitstimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: france; twanging
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This guy needs to take lessons from Hillary's husband.


1 posted on 04/27/2016 12:25:49 PM PDT by RightGeek
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To: RightGeek

This will be a good thread.


2 posted on 04/27/2016 12:26:19 PM PDT by day10 (You'll get nothing and like it!)
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To: day10

I hope so for “Hump Day”


3 posted on 04/27/2016 12:27:18 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: RightGeek

Was it Michelle Fields?


4 posted on 04/27/2016 12:27:46 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: day10

What sound did it make?

I’m guessing “THONNGGGG”...


5 posted on 04/27/2016 12:27:59 PM PDT by null and void ("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
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To: RightGeek; PROCON; FredZarguna; Larry Lucido; Gamecock; KC_Lion

It wasn’t atomic was it?


6 posted on 04/27/2016 12:28:24 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: RightGeek

Panty Elastic Twangers Unite !!!

That’s how The Bent One hooked up with Lewinski....


7 posted on 04/27/2016 12:29:02 PM PDT by Iron Munro (. - rOUND UOP)
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Don’t worry, Michelle Fields will be filing a complaint any day now. Sure, she was probably 10,000 miles away but she was nearly knocked over.

Then, thrown into the air. Bouncing like a ball.


8 posted on 04/27/2016 12:30:00 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: null and void

I oughta report you to the mods.....

Wait, I threatened that once and wound up on the Nut-Job Conspiracy Ping List!!


9 posted on 04/27/2016 12:31:13 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: null and void

It’s not called a Snappie for no reason!


10 posted on 04/27/2016 12:32:34 PM PDT by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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To: RightGeek

Seriously, though... Who among us could resist the twang.


11 posted on 04/27/2016 12:34:45 PM PDT by Rio (Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
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To: Iron Munro

1995 Nov. 15: During the government shutdown, Clinton visits the chief of staff’s office for a birthday party. Lewinsky lifts her jacket and shows him the straps of her thong underwear. Then he invites Lewinsky to his private study, where they kiss. Later that evening, they have a more intimate sexual encounter during which he takes a call from a member of Congress. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/timeline.htm


12 posted on 04/27/2016 12:39:12 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: day10

If snapping you is thong, I don’t want to be right!


13 posted on 04/27/2016 12:40:32 PM PDT by PTBAA
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To: RightGeek

No one caught this on their cellphone? Amateurs.


14 posted on 04/27/2016 12:40:45 PM PDT by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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Ttiuwp.

I will withhold my verdict until I see the victim.

5.56mm


15 posted on 04/27/2016 12:40:55 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: RightGeek

Merde alors!


16 posted on 04/27/2016 12:45:43 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: RightGeek

I bet it really happened. I bet those Davos confabs make drunken frat parties look like a cloistered abbey.


17 posted on 04/27/2016 12:47:58 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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I remember snapping girls' bras in 7th grade. I outgrew it.

Seems this "leader" didn't.

18 posted on 04/27/2016 12:51:37 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: RightGeek

Plunk your elastic twanger, Froggy!


19 posted on 04/27/2016 1:01:18 PM PDT by Argus
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To: RightGeek

He had a thong in his heart.


20 posted on 04/27/2016 1:16:13 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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