Le Pen refuses credentials for left leaning Indy media. Mainstream media responds by

[suffragette]

boycotting FN event.

Great demonstration of solidarity by the media there.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2017/may/07/french-presidential-election-emmanuel-macron-marine-le-pen

As many polling stations closed (some, particularly in the big cities, will remain open for another hour), France’s newspaper of record, Le Monde, has announced that it too will boycott the Front National’s election evening event in the Bois de Vincennes (see post at 17.19)pm:

The Front National has chosen to exclude some French and international media from its election evening event on 7 May ... Le Monde forcefully condemns this attitude which does not allow proper coverage of a major democratic moment and shows a poor interpretation of press freedom. In solidarity with the media concerned, we have decided we will not be present at this election evening event. This decision will not prevent us from covering the Front National to the same journalistic standards.

~~~

A list of online and mainly left-leaning media organisations and websites say they have not been accredited for the Front National’s election evening event in the Bois de Vincennes on the eastern edge of Paris.

Organisations including BuzzFeed, Politico, Rue89, Mediapart and Les Jours all said they have been refused admittance. The leftwing daily newspaper Libération has said it will boycott the event in solidarity.

[Sculpin Beauregard]

1. Good! Let the asshole yell to her echo chamber. Fucking fascist Putin xxx holster.

[suffragette]

14. And she has now lost. So glad.

[workinclasszero]

57. PEEOTUS helped defeat her

The French people saw what a disaster Hair Furor is over here, they ran from their own fascist idiot!

[Alice11111]

35. Hahaha...Colbert has given us a stronger word than AH

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. Wish our mainstream media would do the equivalent.

[progressoid]

4. this

[malaise]

5. At least they all banned the Con's 2020 campaign ad

about fake news

[suffragette]

9. Hey, sis! As a side note, the Guardian showed a detour sign for voters so they would not disturb

a nest with baby birds.

Made me think of one of my favorite songs.

https://m.

Good omen!

[malaise]

12. Sweet

My other favorite reggae bird song

[suffragette]

15. Making a joyful noise!

Love it.

So glad the French rejected the hate.

[malaise]

17. BBC has great coverage

LePen managed 34.1% - that is licks.

[suffragette]

22. I've been watching France 24. Big party outside the Louvre.

[Alice11111]

49. I loved the video! Thanks. Ironically, we were listening

to it early tonight, when my friend picked up a vinyl album. My deceased father used to tell me that a lot when I was growing up, and hearing it made me miss him. I've been worried a lot lately. Maybe, he is still truing to tell me something.

Also, it was such a authentic Jamaican setting and little girl.

[suffragette]

54. I'm sorry for your loss. I hope hearing that brought you some comfort in good memories.

[Alice11111]

55. It was some time ago, but the words remind me of

his kindness and humor, even though, like most of us, he was a flawed character.

[Alice11111]

36. That was huge...surprising, but I guess they finally got it

When DT banned them

[malaise]

39. Took them long enough

[Alice11111]

50. ...and hope it holds. The French didn't fall for the fake news

and email.dumps, but they had the advantage of our experience...with Putin, Wikileaks...

[tblue37]

52. They also have the advantage of an educational system that doesn't allow local

ignorance and prejudice to determine what students learn. The French take education much more seriously than our country does, and they actually teach students about history and politics.

[Alice11111]

53. Ours has been weighted down w nonsense, w more to come

under DeVoss. Maybe we could just become a colony of France or Canada...I can wish.

[suffragette]

18. Me, too.

[Hekate]

26. I wish they would, too

[uponit7771]

28. +1

[iluvtennis]

30. Agree, but US M$M only concerned about ratings and the dollars, so never see them following suit

[lpbk2713]

3. "Hey!! Wait!! I was only kidding!!"

"Can't you guys take a joke?" Says the big time loser frantically to a lot of empty seats.

[suffragette]

7. Yes. Backfired on her fascist self and crew.

[TeamPooka]

6. Wish our press could unify to oppose tyranny.

[suffragette]

25. Love the way you put this so clearly. Very much agree.

[beveeheart]

8. I'm watching TV5 and they seem to be switching

between the 2 locations.

Macron has 65%. Video last France!!!!

[suffragette]

10. Please keep us posted!

[suffragette]

11. And Macron wins!

French state TV vote estimate: Macron 65.1%, Le Pen 34.9%

The centrist Emmanuel Macron is the next president of France, defeating his far right rival Marine Le Pen by a comfortable 65.1% to 34.9%, according to a usually reliable vote estimate by pollsters Ispos/Sopra Steria for French state TV and radio and Le Monde.

Vote estimates by other polling organisations for different French media show a broadly similar result, although some are showing marginal variations. The abstention rate is estimated at 25.3%, the highest since 1969 but not unexpected for such an unusual election.


(From the Guardian live blog link)

[malaise]

13. That's a whipping

Fuck the Con!

[suffragette]

16. It sure is! And a wake up call. The citizens of France wanted change and they elected someone

outside the main political parties, but they were wise enough to reject the hate of Le Pen and her cabal.

[malaise]

19. A 65.9% whipping

[suffragette]

20. Somewhere Don the Con is burying his frustration in a taco bowl while Putin is drowning

His sorrow in vodka.


And Le Pen's boycotting the lefty news stunt just brought the French media more together.

[malaise]

21. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

[suffragette]

48. Macron won in every age group, too. Solid defeat for Le Pen.

Macron won in every age group, according to Ipsos:


Guillaume A. @Guillaume_Alv
Score de Macron selon l'âge (@IpsosFrance)

18-24 ans: 66%
25-34 ans: 60%
35-49 ans: 57%
50-59 ans: 64%
60-69 ans: 70%
70 ans et +: 78%

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2017/may/07/french-presidential-election-emmanuel-macron-marine-le-pen

[notdarkyet]

32. Putin is wondering why the same tactics worked in America but not France? Maybe they

Are wiser? Better educated? I'm sure there are lots of reasons.

[Alice11111]

37. They learned from our mistake...they were Putin aware.

Half the campaign signs said something about DT

[gratuitous]

38. There are probably a lot of reasons

But one of the big ones, I'm quite confident, is that France saw what happened to us.

[lpbk2713]

23. Just about a two to one margin.

That's not just a decisive victory, that's a humiliation.

[suffragette]

24. A resounding NON! Very glad to see it!

[Gothmog]

27. Le Pen is a fascist like trump and is trying to use trump's tricks

[suffragette]

29. Yes. They stir up hate and fear for their profit. And they promote and profess nationalism

while maintaining an active far right global network and agenda.

Labeling and banishing free press is a large part of that.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

31. Is Le Canard Enchain refused admittance?

[suffragette]

40. Apparently many did opt for neither, nor and

Didn't vote.

It will be interesting to see what happens in parlientary elections coming soon.

Good question about Canard. Don't know.

[spanone]

33. i fart in her general direction!

fugg her

a little trump wannabe

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[suffragette]

42. That's a classic for a good reason.

https://m.

I'll join you in doing that after indulging in some camembert and vin rouge to enhance the wafting smell.

[charlyvi]

34. Politico is left wing?

Who knew!

[suffragette]

41. I should have included "mainly" in the OP as the Guardian did in reporting this.

[charlyvi]

43. Politico is mainly left wing?

LOL!

[suffragette]

44. Badumpbump!

[charlyvi]

45. I'm here all week!

[suffragette]

46. Btw, love your signature lines. Both of them.

[charlyvi]

47. Very kind of you. Thanks.

[tblue37]

51. I wish our ratings chasing media would do the same thing when a jerk like Trump

excludes major media like Washington Post or NY Times from events as a way of punishing them for telling the truth about him.

[suffragette]

56. I think they reacted from a place of "that couldn't happen here" at the time. Now that they know

such repression not only could but has happened, hopefully they will take the stronger action of standing together against it when it's pulled again.