NY Post says goodbye and good riddance to DSK

The New York Post is giving former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Khan another monstoring - even though sex charges against him have been dropped.

Post columnist Andrea Peyser writes:

"Mon Dieu! Kick this toad out of town. And chuck his women, too.

"Dominique Strauss-Kahn's legal troubles are over, at least in this country, because the freaky French guy tangled with the wrong maid -- a woman nearly as sneaky and obscene as the wantonly adulterous Pepe le Pew himself.

"Whose company would you prefer, New Yorkers? A rich, horny, Gallic goof-ball who enjoys oral sex with a hotel maid, then skips off to lunch with his 26-year-old daughter as if to celebrate his rapid close encounter?

"Or an immigrant housekeeper who lies about being gang-raped in Africa, tells animated tales of being nearly frog-raped in New York -- then rolls around the floor, sobbing, as prosecutors try to sort fiction from fact?"

She ends her column with a Glenda Slagg-style pay-off: "Get back on that Air France jet and soil your linens back home, Mr. Big Shot. We don't like your kind."

• How the New York tabloids showed contempt for DSK
  

How the New York tabloids showed their contempt for 'French fat cat' Dominique Strauss-Khan

Prosecutors in New York last night formally asked a judge for permission to drop the sex assault charge against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Khan.

So it might be the right time to look back at how some of the New York papers covered the case.

Just imagine the amount of money British lawyers would have made suing the papers for defamation and the actions they could have faced for contempt of court.

The New York Observer website says the city's tabloid papers seized upon the opportunity to characterise DSK "through colorful adjectives and verbs as decidedly French. Also, rich, horny, and fat."

The Observer collected some of the adjectives and French puns used by the tabloids to describe DSK:

New York Daily Post: Front page headline: “FRENCH WHINE!”; Story headline: “WHAT GAUL!”; First word of story: “Pompous”; Also: “Pompous arrogance”; “NYPD Sacre Bleu!”; “Un Animal”; “Sniffs”; “Scowls”; “Scowling”; “Red-faced”; “Whining”; “Whiny”; “Fat cat”; “Haughty”; “Hissy Fit”“A presse-ing affair”; “Creepy”; “Perv politician”; “In a snit”.

NY Daily News - Headline: “Le Perv”; “Sex-crazed”; “Noted-lothario”; “A Socialist party heavyweight”; “Naked pervert”; “Randy”.

And that was only on the first day that the news broke that DSK was accused of assaulting a hotel maid.

• I've always thought the NYC tabloids adopted the persona of the abrasive New York detective 'Popeye' Doyle, as portrayed by Gene Hackman, and his hatred of haughty French criminal Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey) in the film The French Connection, in their attitude to Strauss-Kahn.