While LFI MP Louis Boyard was insulted live by Cyril Hanouna on the Touche set not at my post, Jean-Luc Mélenchon took some time to express himself before clearing the host of C8 during a meeting on November 14.
It is time for indignation in the ranks of rebellious France. All the rebellious leaders and elected officials gave their support to MP Louis Boyard after his stormy appearance on the program Touche pas à mon poste (TPMP) on November 10, as well as the flood of insults poured by Cyril Hanouna and condemned the behavior of the host of C8. All or almost, because the call misses a name of size: that of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Remained silent for several days, the former deputy spoke on the subject on November 14, 2022 during a meeting in Clermont-Ferrand and his position raised questions. “I’m not going to throw the stone like everyone else” at Cyril Hanouna who “is just with his face uncovered”, he declared under the boos of certain activists, almost excusing the host of C8 who “did not the good manners of others” and the know-how to “twist, in poison and lace, words”.
Does Jean-Luc Mélenchon therefore pass the towel on this exchange filled with insults and attacking a deputy from his camp? Difficult to say but it is certain that the leader of LFI is aware of the violence of the remarks. “He insults him, he is almost threatening him,” noted the former presidential candidate in reference to Cyril Hanouna without condemning him. The politician preferred to evade the question and dwell on other details, including the absence of comments in the press on the virulence of the host. A discretion that would not have been the same if the elected Louis Boyard had expressed himself in this way according to him. A step aside which allows on the one hand Jean-Luc Mélenchon not to dwell on the subject Cyril Hanouna and to open the discussion on a larger problem that is the concentration of the media rather unfavorable to the cause of rebellious, again according to the former deputy.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon “loyal” to Cyril Hanouna?
Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s silence between Thursday November 10 and Monday November 14 did not go unnoticed and Cyril Hanouna was happy to point this out in TPMP, even mentioning the “loyalty” of the rebellious leader towards him. The host said he was close to politics and other members of LFI, therefore Alexis Corbière or Raquel Garrido. By insisting on the discretion of the former deputy, Cyril Hanouna and his columnists suggested the responsibility of Louis Boyard who had not informed his camp of his intentions, namely to criticize the actions of French billionaires, therefore Vincent Bolloré, boss of Canal+ and “friend for 20 years” of the star presenter. Jean-Luc Mélenchon did not expand on this point either.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon shifts responsibility for Hanouna to the media
Cyril Hanouna’s behavior on the TPMP set with regard to Louis Boyard is symptomatic of a bigger problem according to Jean-Luc Mélenchon and for which the host is not responsible but the consequence: the concentration of the media. “When nine billionaires [dont Vincent Bolloré, ndlr] own 90% of the media, there is a runoff of mediocrity and obedience”, judged the politician in Clermont-Ferrand on November 14. Above all, these bosses are free “to do what they want with the media”, in particular to authorize insulting remarks towards elected officials, when the opposite scenario would be intolerable and decried by these same media.Also the case of the clash between Louis Boyard and Cyril Hanouna was used by Jean-Luc Mélenchon to defend a bill signed LFI and defended by Clémentine Autain, a project which will be presented to Parliament this month.An opportunity also seized by the elected representative of Seine-Saint-Denis in Release : “The Louis Boyard episode is an opportunity to sound the alarm on media concentration and the control of information”. And to specify that it must file on November 16 a bill aimed at ending concentration in the media and the cultural industry.