One of the dos and don'ts we never thought to include in our media training courses seemed to be rather obvious: 'Don't speak at a press conference when under the influence'.
Now you may wonder what I am getting at but a video of Nicolas Sarkozy at the G8 Summit has been posted on You Tube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=1uxb0JHqzlA and the French President seems to be quite drunk. The matter has been explained away by the French as the effects of a sleeping pill but is it a coincidence that Sarkozy had just had a 'long meeting' with Putin?
So needless to say we wouldn't recommend a bit of Dutch courage (or anything else that makes you stagger and mumble) before you go on stage; your journalist audience are unlikely to see the funny side!
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Sooo many people do this, and I never understand why they are allowed to. Paula Abdul? Car crash tv...
Paula Abdul, Samantha Fox... surely the French President and his advisors should have known better though?!
Goodness knows what the reaction would've been if Tony Blair had ever been allowed to do the same.
Who'd have thunk it? A leader? Mashed and trying to speak? Dutch courage? Well got to get courage from somewhere I suppose...
Oy, French president, don't drink too much if you cannot take it, it's better if you sniff some glue.
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