 replacing all news with a seven-minute interview of one of the Sylvestres during the 2003 Iraq War).The "Guignols" have had a tremendous impact on French popular culture, in many cases introducing or popularizing phrases.For example, "à l'insu de mon plein gré" ("without the knowledge of my own free will"), repeated by Richard Virenque's puppet, is now attributed in jest to people who hypocritically deny having willfully committed attributed acts.