Serge Schmemann writes something called an "editorial observer" piece for the New York Times, an essay obviously intended to portray new French president Nicolas Sarkozy in an unfavorable light.

His father, Paul Sarkozy, had left Hungary in 1948 and followed a typically complicated émigré's odyssey that ended up in Paris. There he married a woman of Greek Jewish origins, whom he left with their three sons when Nicolas was a small boy. So Nicolas was raised with no direct contact with Hungarian language or culture. When a woman of North African heritage questioned him about his roots during the campaign, he retorted: "You are not Algerian, but French. And I am not Hungarian." [....]

... when Mr. [isn't his proper title "President"?] Sarkozy campaigns to keep Turkey out of Europe, or calls frustrated North African youths scum, or tightens France's borders against African immigrants, he should be reminded that he would not be where he is if France had not once let in a displaced nobleman from Hungary or a Sephardic Jew from Greece.