I don’t think I know anyone who is not elated about Obama’s win. A friend and I watched the election results on his i-phone during an all-day meeting in Melbourne today and held our breath until the votes moved beyond the point of no return.

Obama should, however, watch out for anyone phoning with a French accent. The Masked Avengers like calling the newly-elected (as well as the too-idiotic-to-ever-be-elected) and Chirac and Sarkozy have both been pranked. See the clip below, in which Sarkozy takes a call from the ‘Canadian President’…

‘SARAH PALIN piégée par un faux SARKOZY’ screamed Le Monde’s headline. But I’d already listened to the ‘interview’ myself, and read the story online, thanks to the Melbourne Age newspaper. It can also be found on YouTube.

Devised by Canadian comedy duo Les Justiciers Masques (the Masked Avengers), the fake Sarkozy was played by MARC-ANTOINE AUDETTE, with the ‘interview’ aired on a Quebec radio station.

Trust me, SARAH PALIN was completely taken in. How she could be so gullible is beyond belief, especially given the fake SARKOZY’S fluency in English, including his use of idiom (describing his wife as ‘so hot in bed’), and several clues, such as his ‘special adviser to the United States—JOHNNY HALLYDAY’.

When PALIN says at the end ‘Oh, have we been pranked’, there should have been no question mark after ‘pranked’ as inserted in the story in The Age. From my listening, her oral inflection was unmistakably on the ‘have we’, meaning ‘Oh dear, we have really been taken in’.

’Meanwhile, according to the report in The Age, AUDETTE is saying he hopes he won’t be given ‘a one-way ticket to Guantanamo Bay’.