BBC love a Right wing politician with video problems

The BBC are loving drawing attention to the video of French President Nicolas Sarkozy swearing at a member of the crowd at the annual farming fair in Paris. Radio 5Live are including in every news bulletin and here is the web page devoted to this story. Apparently "The video clip, which has been posted on the internet, shows a man at the Salon International de l'Agriculture refusing to shake the president's hand.

When offered Mr Sarkozy's hand, the man draws back and says: "Oh no, don't touch me, you'll dirty me."

Mr Sarkozy snaps: "Get lost then you bloody idiot, just get lost!"...

The opposition Socialist leader, Francois Hollande, claimed this latest episode showed Mr Sarkozy's behaviour was not fitting for a president."



Now I don't remember the BBC drawing quite so much attention, or indeed any, to the amusing video of Gordon Brown picking his nose. Now why would that be the case? Just in case the BBC don't have the video to hand but want to refer to it, here it is...