This Monday, Eric Zemmour presented the main lines of his program on the school.
The opportunity also to simultaneously teach his former fellow journalists a lesson to the press that is more bitter than sweet.
“In a year, to the day, I will invite you to the Élysée, and our relations will no longer be the same.
You will address me with respect, admiration, solicitude and hypocrisy, as you always do with the Presidents of the Republic ”, attacks the candidate of Reconquest.
"And, I will answer you with a sympathy which will break in a striking way with the style of my predecessor, this illustrious pain-
killer,
according to the self-portrait which he draws up of himself and which, let us admit, is of a striking resemblance “, He continues, scratching Emmanuel Macron in passing.
While recalling that "yesterday", he was still a journalist, Eric Zemmour assures that he was "different".
“First, I was on the right (…).
Then, I spoke and I wrote French, whereas your mother tongue is political correctness.
Finally, I was popular.
(…) You who have often presented me as the most hated man in France, you were in reality, you still are, the most unloved men and women in France ”, claw the former journalist of Le Figaro , surfing the unpopularity of the media.
According to the barometer of French confidence in the media Kantar Public-onepoint 2021, 63% of French people think that journalists do not resist political pressure.
"The public service will no longer spit on the taxpayer every day for breakfast"
"But who doesn't love you?" The people, my good friends. It is that, you see, the people have memory, gumption and lucidity ", justifies the populist candidate who victimizes himself:" I guess, for having lived it, the evil looks and the handles of cold hands for the one, for example, who would dare not to qualify me by the ritual formula of
extreme-extreme right-wing radical and extreme polemicist
. "Eric Zemmour's team is indeed putting pressure, often in vain, on the media so that he is not qualified as" extreme right ".
And the candidate, who wants to put an end to the TV license, to promise, if he is elected, to “free” the journalists from their “ideological blinders”: “The public service will no longer spit on the taxpayer every day at the small -breakfast.
"While threatening to end aid to the press:" Only those of you who can only live on a drip of taxpayer money will suffer.
Isn't it risky to stigmatize the media in this way?
"No need to arouse this kind of tension, you manage very well on your own", replies the one who holds the press card number 57 111.
