During his greetings to the press, candidate Eric Zemmour scratched President Emmanuel Macron on Monday, January 10, calling him “an illustrious pain in the ass”, in reference to recent statements by the Head of State.
Imagining his wishes for next year in the event of victory in the presidential election, Eric Zemmour assured that he would break with “his predecessor”. “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 even a touch of hypocrisy, as you always do with the President of the Republic ”, declared the candidate of the Reconquest party! in front of the hundred journalists present, in the company of Guillaume Peltier and Philippe de Villiers.
“I will answer you with a sympathy which will break with the style of my predecessor, this illustrious pain-killer, according to the portrait he draws of himself and which, let’s face it, is a striking resemblance,” he said. he continued, thus addressing a first spade to Emmanuel Macron, and promising not to be as “Jupiterian” as him.
But more than a critical speech towards the President, Eric Zemmour has embarked on a real diatribe towards the media. Referring to “empty questions”, but also “ideological blinders”, “political correctness”, and “woke culture”, which would, according to the candidate, be the prerogative of today’s journalists, Eric Zemmour told journalists that they were “the most unloved men and women in France.”
However, he admits to having been part of the profession, although he is more qualified as a former polemicist or columnist, and consequently affirmed that “of all the candidates”, he was the one who knew journalists best, thus not being able to take them “from above”.
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Sometimes condemning the public service, sometimes the “progressivism” of the media, rejoicing that the press no longer has “the monopoly of interpreting the news and the world” thanks to social networks (recognizing all the same that we find “food and drink”), Eric Zemmour still ended up wishing them a happy new year 2022, hoping that it will be the year of “the rebirth of French journalism”.
The Reconquest candidate! then detailed a number of his proposals on the theme of the school.