Eric Zemmour doesn’t like journalists, that’s no surprise. Former chronicler himself (at Figaro and on CNews), he sent particularly scathing wishes to the press on Monday, January 10. Surrounded by Guillaume Peltier, the fresh defector of the Les Républicains (LR) party, Philippe de Villiers, Laurence Trochu, the president of the Conservative Movement (ex-Sens commun), and Jacline Mouraud, from the “yellow vests” movement “, The former journalist mocked his kind colleagues for twenty minutes in an almost insulting speech – but which was supposed to be humorous.
When he is elected, journalists will address him “With respect, admiration, concern and even a touch of hypocrisy as you always do with the Presidents of the Republic”, he explained, assuring that he will answer their “Most hollow questions”, unlike Emmanuel Macron, “This illustrious pain in the ass, according to the self-portrait he draws up of himself”.
“I was one of you, resumed the candidate, but I was different too. For three reasons: I was on the right; then, I spoke, I wrote French, whereas your mother tongue is political correctness; well, I was popular ”, while journalists would be men and women “The most hated in France”. “Who doesn’t love you? The people, my good friends. And he’s right to blame you. “
But, asks Eric Zemmour, “Are you responsible for this dreadful reputation?” “. He assures us that no, and believes that it is because of “The pressure which is exerted on you, from the school of journalism to the television sets, the pressure of an ideology which is ready to do anything to impose its dogmas”. After praising social media, he concluded: “I look at you and I say to myself, they are the hostages of ideology and it is unfair, you deserve better than the intellectual slavery which is imposed on you. “ Moreover, when he will be at the Elysee Palace, he says, “The public service will no longer spit on the taxpayer every day at breakfast, it will no longer slap the real thing every evening at 8 pm”.
Going back to the communal school of the 1950s
After these courtesies, Eric Zemmour presented “The school we want”, proposals that fit on a small double page, which explicitly aim to return to the communal area of the 1950s. He commented on three tables, taken from the evaluation department of the Ministry of National Education, to prove that, “For thirty years, the level of our primary school students in French and mathematics has fallen”. “It’s a real disaster! “, the candidate was indignant, while “In the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, all the right-thinking media, the newspaper The world in the lead, said “the level is rising” ”. In 1987, 5% of students made more than twenty-five errors in dictation, once morest 20% in 2015; 74% of CM2s mastered the division in 1987, once morest 37% in 2015; France, finally, is relegated to the international PISA ranking of universities, although expenditure per student has almost doubled in forty years.
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