"displaying contempt towards a public servant"
...would cover many of the news reporters here in the US.
May we please export some of our women pols to France, where they can finally get some respect, notably:
Sarah Palin, former Gov. of Alaska, and former 2008 VP candidate on the Republican ticket - quit the office as Governor of Alaska for better pay on the chicken dinner circuit, and Fox noise - effectively destroying any future political career. She has no chance even being elected dog-catcher now.
Michelle Bachman, Republican House Rep. from Minnesota's 6th district - famous for actively encouraging her constituents to refuse to fill out the 2010 US census forms, at least until some folks pointed out that if Minnesotans allowed themselves to be under-counted in the US census, Michelle's 6th district would be the one absorbed into neighboring districts, and the district and her House seat would simply disappear.
Christine O'Donnell - Republican candidate for US Senate from Delaware - No College degree in evidence, but long steeped in socially conservative fundamentalist Christian doctrine, believes that condom use actually promotes the spread of STD's, and that abstinence is the only acceptable form of teenage birth control (as if teenagers somehow weren't wont to make like the bunnies).
We have many more thoroughly batshit pols of both sexes available for export, but these are the cream of the crop, and for obvious reasons are the first ones we'd love to part with. FIRE SALE accommodations are in effect! Do not wait! Frenchmen, these deals will only be available for a limited time!
OTOH, Hillary Clinton would have ack'd her faux pas, and simply ignored that sort of suggestive missive, and if asked about it publicly, would have dismissed it for the nonsense it was.
Sorry Dati, you get meh! from this side of the pond. Grow a thicker skin, you're a pol, you're supposed to have a very thick layer of that stuff anyway. if you don't, you don't belong that business. The last thing this world needs is more pols with victim or persecution complexes.