Sunday, September 16, 2007

Why did he do it?

I'm not sure if my readers are as interested in the Alexis Debat debacle (scroll down for earlier stories) as I continue to be, but the very latest by Guillemette Faure and Pascal Riché deserves some notice.

Politique Internationale, the neocon-linked journal which published those fake interviews with Obama, Bill Gates, both Clintons and other luminaries, now claims that they were hoodwinked. Patrick Wajsman, the current editor of that journal, claims that he was the "first victim" of Debat. That magazine used him as an expert consultant because of his ABC credentials. So did PBS. Apparently, a connection to that network opens many doors.
At 35, Alexis Debat was pretty successful. He had a respectable position in a well-regarded think tank, he was a regular face on television, he was quoted in newspapers… why did he need to keep fabricating interviews in a French journal with a limited circulation? This is another mystery of this stunning story.
Good question. I still cannot escape the feeling that his CIA contacts put him up to at least some of this maddening behavior, although the of motive remains a matter guesswork.

7 comments:

UnkindByDesign said...

Once again your over inflated egocentrism & half baked understanding de l'esprit Cartesien is amusing Joe. There is quite a rational at work here, because an imbecile pretends to be "Docteur es Sciences politique" from l'Universite de la Sorbonne, everything he writes from then becomes subject to question the integrity and quality of French Academia.....Because in the US, real academics such as Harvard fungus Alan Dershowitz, confirms that concocting a fraud is still a great American academic tradition.
The French foreign affairs journal "Politique Internationale" is as academic as the Weekly Standard....Nothing but a pure product of right wing geo-political demagogy, it has no intellectual integrity whatsoever. But again you may have to know the fruits before pretending to know the tree.

PS. Your research in Cathar history....., Do you think "Le Priore (Prieure) de Sion" was involved in the 9/11 conspiracy ?.

Joseph Cannon said...

Helio, you're an ass and an idiot. I made clear that my problem with French academia has been of long standing and has nothing to do with Debat.

Did I ever say that PI holds to any high academic standards? I said that it was edited for a long time by a neocon faker.

And what the hell was so damn egocentric in the post to which your comment is appended?

What I was trying to look up vis-a-vis the Cathars had nothing to do with that nonsense.

You are reacting to a bunch of shit in your imagination, not to anything I said.

Get out of here, asshole. Anything you say, even if sensible, will be removed on sight.

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Anonymous said...

wait Helio is that Joe, or Thomas Friedman who has that 3 degree IQ? It can't be everybody... but hey, being all for recycling, I guess I have to applaud your recycling of insults...

Anonymous said...

Hey Joe, he's just another idiot being used by everybody. The free market, ya know.

Anonymous said...

Alexis Debat is an anagram for "Bad Texas Lie."

Just saying.

Anonymous said...

Judith Miller writes an article in the New York Times and Dick Cheney refers to it. And all of a sudden the story has legs. Judith's legs!
It does not matter that Judith Miller is found to be a NeoCon enabler a few months down the road. The article did what it needed to do.
This is the age of false profits (I am hardly a believer of the holy kind=God can not be so homophobic that he has to produce a Son) who will sew the seed of deception and hope that it would take root.
What's at stake is your credibility, and if you have none, none is lost. The upshot is that you may survive a while... until the matter passes and then you may be found out.
If you were on the side of the powers that be, you will be rewarded. And if fortunes turn, you will deny everything!
A very clever way to insert yourself or rather expel yourself depending on who and how the game is played.
The French have no monopoly on this dirty game. This particular guy happens to be French, that's all.