Interview with Olivier Dussopt in the magazine Têtu: coming out to make "diversion"

Bruno Donnet 10:21 am, March 27, 2023

Every day, Bruno Donnet analyzes media strategies. This morning, he chose to point your telescope at an interview with Olivier Dussopt that has just appeared in the magazine Têtu.

A remarkable interview, signed Nicolas Scheffer and Morgan Crochet who hastened to ask this question to the Minister of Labor: "We are not just any political newspaper, they pointed out, why receive us today?"

An excellent preamble because Têtu is a magazine specialized in dealing with issues affecting homosexual communities.

So what exactly is there in this interview?

The revelation that Olivier Dussopt is a stubborn minister?

No, that, given the obstinacy he showed to defend, against human winds and tides, his pension reform, while maintaining his calm in all circumstances, we already knew that he was a little stubborn: "Ladies and gentlemen deputies Insoumis, you insulted me 15 days! You go out but you insulted me. No one cracked. No one has cracked and we are here, in front of you, for reform! »

No, what is salient in this interview is that Olivier Dussopt is coming out!

But on what subject precisely?

The Minister of Labour does not reveal that he is right-wing. No, as he has already told Le Parisien, before confirming it, on LCI, he is left-wing: "You would say again it is a reform of the left? I say it and I say it again. »

So what? He admits, finally, as the deputy Aurélien Pradié had accused him, that he plays crossword puzzles in the middle of the National Assembly? "But the first respect, Mr. Minister of Public Accounts, is not to do crossword puzzles when the national representation speaks, as painful as it is!"

No longer Philippe, the devil dresses as Pradié, but on his love for crosswords, in the Assembly, Olivier Dussopt had already come out on the set of Apolline de Malherbe: "You really play crossword puzzles in the assembly? Yes, I made a mistake, I opened a grid during a break in the sitting. »

End of suspense, Olivier Dussopt confides to the magazine Têtu that he is gay!

Behind this revelation, we must in fact ask ourselves two questions.

The first is what do we have to do with it?

And the answer is nothing. We stamp ourselves because what interests us in a minister is the nature of the policy he conducts, not his sexuality.

So, the second question, much more interesting this time, is what is it for? Why does a weakened Minister of Labour come to tell us today that he is homosexual?

And this question, the journalists of Têtu did not forget to ask Olivier Dussopt: "Receive us to evoke your homosexuality, they pointed out to him, after this reform and while the protest rages, is it not an attempt at political diversion? "

This is wise, because the feeling felt by our colleagues is that the Minister of Labour was using, opportunely, his sexuality as a kind of totem of immunity: "Hand on heart," they write, "Olivier Dussopt promises that this is not a diversionary strategy."

The journalists of Têtu are not fooled and if they wanted to meet the minister, it is in no way to evoke his sexuality, but to question him on the fate of LGBT people who, they specify, "will be particularly affected by this reform, because of the discrimination they suffer during their careers. "

This interview is remarkable because if Olivier Dussopt probably tries to use it to make a "diversion", as our colleagues write, the journalists of Têtu reframe it, systematically. Moreover, the article is not entitled: "Olivier Dussopt: I am gay", it is entitled: "Olivier Dussopt: We may have to reuse the 49.3". An extremely clever way of referring the Minister of Labour precisely to what he was trying to make us forget.