Rachida Dati, French Politician, Confuses 'Inflation' With 'Fellatio' (VIDEO)

France's former justice minister Rachida Dati became the subject of international punch lines after she confused oral sex with inflation during a TV interview.

Dati originally made the racy gaffe in a weekend interview on French TV program Canal Plus during a heated discussion of foreign investment funds, the BBC reports.

"When I see some of them looking for returns of 20 or 25 percent, at a time when fellatio is close to zero, and in particular in a slump, that means we are destroying businesses," she told Canal Plus. According to the AFP, the French word for fellatio is "fellation," which shares some syllables with "inflation," pronounced the same in French as in English.

French website Lepost.fr posted the clip and said by early evening it had been viewed 120,000 times. Dati, now a European MP, has since laughed off the slip. "I just spoke too quickly," she is quoted by the AFP as saying. "But, well, if that lets everybody have a laugh, then that's fine."

View Dati's interview slip-up (in French) here:

Lapsus: Dati confond "inflation" et... "fellation"
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Comments

[sassafra]

11:23 PM on 10/02/2010

she's quite witty...and i confess, adorably attractive. i can understand her momentary confusion leading to the momentary slip of the tongue. at any rate she is correct, whether the topic is inflation or sex, size does matter.

[DaMojo]

10:50 AM on 10/02/2010

Oh, the irony.

[Murphdogg]

01:17 PM on 10/01/2010

Hey Rachida, I'm only looking for 10-15%.

[gjackson]

09:39 AM on 10/01/2010

one is more rewarding than the other

[Edward Standley]

11:51 PM on 09/30/2010

She is so darned cute.

[RJC]

11:03 PM on 09/30/2010

Too bad her name wasn't spelled DATY, instead of DATI, that would make it even more hilarious

[shylove2]

07:10 PM on 09/30/2010

Thanks heavens at least the French have their priorities straight, really straight..

[NioOnMaui]

05:59 PM on 09/30/2010

Inflation sucks.

[bodel]

08:10 AM on 10/02/2010

lololol
wonderful insight!
And who doesn't love those French women..?

[AndrewY1]

05:45 PM on 10/05/2010

She's actually a French citizen with Arab ethnicity.

[briarus42]

04:15 PM on 09/30/2010

you do one and get the other. If you do it right?

[Telemachus]

04:01 PM on 09/30/2010

I go through times when fellatio is close to zero, but I'm not happy to admit it.

[Telemachus]

03:57 PM on 09/30/2010

Well, it IS a leading indicator ...

[jiminorange]

03:46 PM on 09/30/2010

We all need to lighten up once in awhile. This was a good laugh.

[WarrenPease]

03:28 PM on 09/30/2010

If you really want ROI in tough times, you need to give more BJ's.

[Matthew Breslin]

03:05 PM on 09/30/2010

"If that lets everybody have a laugh, then that's fine." - Good for you, ma'am. You gotta love the French, who can laugh about these things. In America, this would be a scandal of biblical proportions.

[John Boyle]

02:59 PM on 09/30/2010

This stoty sucks.

[theherk]

04:16 PM on 09/30/2010

So does this stony stogy and story.