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Posted on Monday 17 September 2007


Why Alexis Debat Really Did It

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?

Interesting query, Rue89! But we think we’ve got it all figured out.

Presumably, Debat did it for the same reason that always drives people to routinely make up semi-believable interviews for modestly read French publications, namely they’re insecure, overcompensating for a lifetime of inadequacy and slightly fucked in the head.
Certainly the most likely possibility – no question about it. But, I wonder still. Debat’s articles were so monofocused, inflamming Iran/U.S. relations, anti-Democrats. And some of them made so much noise – U.S. Plans to bomb Iran into the Stone Age in three days. Obama saying ‘Iraq is a defeat.’
I can go with insecure, overcompensating for a lifetime of inadequacy and slightly fucked in the head. But a bit of proof would be nice. He could be insecure, overcompensating for a lifetime of inadequacy and slightly fucked in the head and sleeping with the enemy. Most people who sleep with the enemy are also insecure, overcompensating for a lifeti… etc.

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