The following video is a segment from the French TV talk show “Les Grandes Gueules” (which translates roughly as “The Big Mouths”). It features the popular commentator and former presidential candidate Éric Zemmour in a discussion with several other panelists.
One of things I find striking about French talk shows is the way in which panelists are relatively patient in allowing others to speak without interruption. In a typical American show, participants routinely talk over one another. A speaker will utter no more than three or four words before other panelists shout him down. When there are more than two participants involved, it’s not unusual for them to scream at each other. That’s why I loathe watching videos taken from talk shows.
There is some simultaneous talking in this clip, but mostly people allow each other to speak. It’s refreshingly different from, say, Hannity. I wish I didn’t require a translator to understand what’s being said.
Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
| 00:00 | I have the right to think that when you readjust the French people’s purchasing power, | |
| 00:03 | when you solve their problems, immigration will not be a subject of discussion any more. | |
| 00:06 | I didn’t use the word problem on purpose, it won’t be a topic anymore. | |
| 00:10 | Dear sir, you know, I have been listening to such points for forty years. | |
| 00:17 | I believe that’s materialism. It’s a philosophical vision of politics | |
| 00:20 | that you embrace, and which is widespread, | |
| 00:23 | which is materialistic. —I don’t think that material problems are the problems that… | |
| 00:29 | Well… they are important problems, clearly, because that’s what enables us to live, | |
| 00:32 | but there’s more than that. You know, France, as Michelet used to say, is a soul, first of all. | |
| 00:38 | It is, first of all; I do agree with that. | |
| 00:41 | Of course, good. —If you will, when the French people, | |
| 00:45 | when your daughter is forced to wear the veil to go shopping, | |
| 00:53 | I’ll say it again: when your daughter is forced to wear the veil to go shopping, | |
| 00:58 | her problem will not be to know whether she still needs one euro, or she has one euro too much, | |
| 01:04 | in order to buy a baguette. | |
| 01:07 | Well, I would like to reply, I need to… —I want to respond to that, because… | |
| 01:12 | I became interested in your… —You took interest in my platform. | |
| 01:15 | There’s a program that favors small businesses for people like you. | |
| 01:20 | So you should praise me and my work. | |
| 01:23 | Mr. Zemmour, when you said that they took surveys | |
| 01:26 | and it turns out that 57% of young people are for establishing sharia law, | |
| 01:29 | since I get involved, being in touch with young people who are 16, 15, 18 years old, | |
| 01:34 | I can tell you that they are not interested in that, and this issue doesn’t concern them at all, | |
| 01:38 | and one even wonders whether they know what that is. That’s the first thing. | |
| 01:41 | When one really gets involved, there are those people who stand out, there are those | |
| 01:46 | who are at the top of the heap and make noise. Those who are in search of an identity | |
| 01:50 | are rightfully reacting to a certain number of public policies, | |
| 01:54 | and I definitely agree with you on the fact that these policies have created | |
| 01:58 | and nurtured clientelism and communitarianism for forty years, | |
| 02:01 | which have made all those ghettos emerge. | |
| 02:04 | Which are nothing but the symptoms of all that. A large portion of young people | |
| 02:08 | join the so-called identitarian restoration, | |
| 02:12 | but they don’t act upon it in their daily routine. | |
| 02:16 | I have been in those neighborhoods, and that’s something that doesn’t exist there. | |
| 02:20 | There was just one veiled young girl sitting around my table, | |
| 02:24 | and she was a French person who converted. So that’s the reality. | |
| 02:28 | The words, they are just not there. And it’s not because you celebrate Ramadan | |
| 02:31 | that you are not a patriot or that you are not a French citizen. |
I am curious if the male who was debating Mr Zemmour will still be uttering the same platitudes when the islamists are cutting his head off for blasphemy or the Africans are cutting him up into little pieces for the stew pot?
Almost ALL the mainstream discussions on Islam are so dangerously dumb in the West that I have no words for it. Very annoying.
A main sacrament of Islam is Jihad ,Jihad is the converting or enslaving or killing of all unbelievers when the number of Moslems have the power to do it. If you are a “unbeliever ” you must submit to the Moslems in power to their laws ,you become a third class citizen a slave or you are killed. By importing millions of Moslem “refugee ‘ into the west you insure that the” natives” of western Europe are put in danger. With zero or negative growth by live births in the native populations and the imported exotics the Moslem “refugees” having more then one “wife”with 5 or 6 welfare depended off spring for each “wife” what could be then end result in two to three decades?Many stupid native European women are sweet talk into mating with these cave men ,with the current crop of native European men have given up are looking for a female mate for life ,with no direction in life .The elites have put out the program of propaganda for a slow mass suicide and the masses have swallowed it whole.The world is ending according to them because fill in the blank climate warming climate cooling ,oceans raising ,oceans falling ,stop farming ,stop traveling, stay in your cube government provided apartment, eat bugs, binge watch TV, play games, take drugs ,be happy and die. What will the elites do with billions of angry Moslems in the end is anyone guess?