Hit the bricks

Hate-peddler Thierry Ardisson got the axe last week. Daniel Schneidermann is not displeased:

The provocative art of Ardisson to sell his own personality, machoism, and nihilism for all to see had quite an allure. His own sneer came out of nowhere, and characterized everyone he would come in contact with.

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By systematically inviting jews, muslims, and black people on his show, if possible face to face, and if possible by leading them to throwing things at each other, Ardisson has managed to create a French group which would not have done the same thing on its’ own, to reproduce a conflict for him. Take for example Dieudonné. Re-reading all of his interviews with Ardisson gives you the same impression: while contributing, broadcast after broadcast, to hardening the comic’s position. Didn’t Ardisson push him there?

the fuse is lit!