Los Angeles Times, May 20, 2011 by Christopher Kutz
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-kutz-dsk-20110520,0,1568348.story
The trivialization of his past thuggish behavior as “seduction” and “loving women” marks the dirty if open secret of French politics: an elite tolerance for corruption and misbehavior that is nearly as much an outlier among developed nations as the American taste for prison farms as social policy.