"Do you know what Mrs. Agnès Pannier-Runacher said today who every time she says something, it's a collector
's item," Pascal Praud asked Wednesday evening on CNews to the speakers on his show "L' hour of the pros 2”.
While the debate on set focused on the revision of the presidential flight plan during Emmanuel Macron's trip to New York and on the various measures taken to save energy, the journalist quoted a sentence from the Minister of Transition energy.
"She said this absolutely incredible thing: 'If your fridge is empty at the end of the month, you might as well unplug it to save energy
,'" he said to everyone's amazement.
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"I thought it was
Le Gorafi ,
"
continued Pascal Praud, mentioning the parody news site.
"Marie-Antoinette would have said, it's apocryphal, if you can't eat bread, eat brioche.
But there, it's not apocryphal, it's about this level.
It is a kind of Marie-Antoinette of the poor.
And
to conclude, by re-reading a third time this sentence which he was convinced had indeed been pronounced by Agnès Pannier-Runacher:
“Here are the people who direct us!
»
.
Because in reality, it came from a parody Twitter account called Ministère Écologie Déserté which, like many others on the Internet, has fun making false comments to political figures.
Alerted to his mistake during a commercial break, Pascal Praud immediately corrected his mistake.
“We are sometimes so surprised by statements that I myself have been taken in.
In fact, it was a parody account, obviously.
Madame Agnès Pannier-Runacher never said
: “If your fridge is empty at the end of the month, you might as well unplug it to save energy”.
The authors of the Ministère Écologie Déserté
Twitter account welcomed this unexpected highlight on CNews by pinning Pascal Praud in a new publication:
“Pascal Praud: “Following serious journalistic work and after checking our sources, I am able to reveal that the ecologists are in fact reptilians from the planet Sirius.”
“
Phrase that he never really said, of course.