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Mysteries Unraveled<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Why Alexis Debat Really<\/em> Did It<\/strong> \t\t<\/div>\n
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At 35, Alexis Debat<\/strong> 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?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Interesting query, Rue89<\/a><\/strong>! But we think we’ve got it all figured out.<\/p>\n

Presumably, Debat did it for the same reason that always<\/em> 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.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Certainly the most likely possibility – no question about it. But, I wonder still. Debat’s articles were so monofocused, inflamming Iran\/U.S.<\/strong> 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.’ <\/div>\n
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Debat as a news source<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n