French Mag Airbrushes Sarkozy's Love-Handles

AFP:

The French magazine Paris Match touched up a photograph taken of President Nicolas Sarkozy during his US vacation to get rid of some unattractive rolls of flesh around his waist, according to the weekly l'Express on Thursday.

L'Express contrasted the original photograph taken of Sarkozy, sitting bare to the waist in a paddle boat, with the Paris Match photo that was airbrushed to get rid of the "love handles".

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Comments

[truthyguy]

08:07 AM on 08/24/2007

Ah. Another hard hitting news story.

[MadCow]

08:59 PM on 08/23/2007

This little story is a little bit more interesting than Sarkozy's love handles are by themselves.
Two years ago, Paris-Match featured a photo of Sarkozy's wife, Cécilia, with a male companion (not Mr. Sarkozy.) The Chief Editor of Paris-Match was promptly fired for running the picture in the magazine.
Paris-Match is owned by Arnauld Lagardère who owns numerous other French magazines. And it so happens that Mr. Lagardère is a very close personal friend of Mr. Sarkozy.
But the original picture got out anyway, hehe, so who is gonna get fired this time, Mr. Sarkozy?? Your cook?

[Chocolate2008]

07:07 PM on 08/23/2007

Dude looks like a CRAB. That's so nasty. But Vladimir Putin ? Now, He's hot.

In an evil poisioner KBG kind of way.

;p

[smartstuart]

07:05 PM on 08/23/2007

Can you imagine the airbrush job if Denny Hasert or Dick Cheney were in that boat???

[wayoutleft]

10:13 AM on 08/24/2007

they wouldn't airbrush them. they would apply 27 coats of candy apple red acrylic laquer and hand buff them for 72 hours.

[dapaul]

06:49 PM on 08/23/2007

France's first neo-con President gets help from the press to cover up his faults. Welcome to American style politics.

[WretchedEtcher]

03:51 PM on 08/23/2007

Hi. I took a Photoshop class from a pro photographer...I real expert in photography - digital and film. He'd shot many a models and even shot for Playboy.
One day we were learning to nudge in thighs, wipe out eye bags, and other numerous cosmetic touch-ups to a woman who by all measures was "perfect as-is"!
I asked that if in all his years he'd ever had the perfect model...no "Photoshop Magic" needed? He replied in his thick Shri-Lanken accent, "No! Everyone needs Photoshop."
I now find that comforting.

[Maxx61]

02:57 PM on 08/23/2007

Airbrush? Damn HuffPo...are you still watching "Yo, MTV Raps" as well?

[rwe]

02:39 PM on 08/23/2007

Now just imagine if the same pictures of Sarkozy and the one of Putin that is out there are taken when either Hillary or Fred becomes President . OHH the humanity

[Amhet]

01:51 PM on 08/23/2007

Hey now, they're just taking lessons from the Associated Press ala Isreali conflict last summer......

[truthoutdotduh]

02:41 PM on 08/23/2007

Israeli conflict? Conflict? Did you say conflict? What I witnessed was the senseless month long massacre of 3000 Lebanese children by Israeli war planes armed with munitions made and provided by the 'good' ole USA . . . Hmmm . . .conflict you say?

[smartstuart]

07:13 PM on 08/23/2007

If I say "whopper with cheese"-do you say-"Israel committed a whopper of a war crime"??? The airbrush was the phoney baloney QANA death Show, as Ben Wederman of CNN reported. Dead, stiff bodies were placed in the rubble to "enhance"(airbrush) the truth-to make it seem Israel killed those folks. In closing-no rockets fired into Israel by Hezbollah-no dead Lebanese! 3000 dead Lebanese children dead?? More airbrushing of the truth by one more garden-variety Huffpo Israel basher!!! Back under the Hezbollah flag,troll!!!

[BWonka]

01:46 PM on 08/23/2007

They should have done his face as well. And his man-boobs.

[riverroad]

02:40 PM on 08/23/2007

lol--Pay attention Huffpo misogynists! Youth, thinness and physical attractiveness aren't just for females anymore. You can't just plant your old butts on the couch, sucking up beers, bellies on your thighs, rooting for your troops and arguing among yourselves whether a given female meets your sexiness standards.

Look in the mirror! You're ugly! You need photo-shopping!

It'll be a great day when cosmetics and footwear manufacturers notice you and remind you that you need to put on make-up and slip on a pair of nice, comfortable spike heels.

[BWonka]

03:52 PM on 08/23/2007

"...you need to put on make-up and slip on a pair of nice, comfortable spike heels. "

Oh - like Rudina Guiliani.

[wayoutleft]

08:51 AM on 08/24/2007

well... it sorta works actually... if in the mean time a given female is tacking through the megamall buying every tiny overpriced weirdshaped bottle, tube, blouse skirt dress, and pair of shoes she can possibly grasp on your credit card... please believe me when i tell you that the cosmetics and footwear manufacturers HAVE noticed me. they have noticed that i need to supply a substantial gift to a given female about once a month because of whatever rentlessly flogged, promoted and oversold sweet romantic traditional occasion.

[Steamboater]

01:07 PM on 08/23/2007

You call those love handles? They look more like love ripples. You should see my love handles!

[Rand]

09:57 AM on 08/24/2007

Do we HAVE to?????

[citizenofmars]

12:57 PM on 08/23/2007

he's wearing one of those gay THONGS too. yuchhhhhhh!

[wayoutleft]

12:44 PM on 08/23/2007

they never airbrushed good ol bill out jogging and stopping at mcdonalds. (god another flashback to a human being president. (the kids could never believe how it was [sniff ;>(
] don't get me started)... europeans in the sunshine...also the shirtless putin now... some things are just not meant for american sensibilities...

[tkk]

12:41 PM on 08/23/2007

That's going to have a big impact on international policy.

[neoconcriminals]

12:32 PM on 08/23/2007

...and in local news, 500 Iraqis met a fiery death when a suicide bomber blew himself up...

Returning to our big story...Sarkozy's love handles are still growing