Posted on 09/14/2007 3:34:38 AM PDT by Stop Liberalism
A former ABC News consultant fired last year because he couldn't authenticate academic credentials is at the center of a new dispute over apparently faked interviews with Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Gates and others. ADVERTISEMENT
The consultant, Alexis Debat, quit the Nixon Center, a Washington think tank, on Wednesday after Obama's representatives claimed an interview with the senator appearing under Debat's byline in the French magazine Politique Internationale never took place. The interview quoted the Democratic presidential candidate as saying the Iraq war was "a defeat for America."
Pelosi, Gates, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg all said they never gave interviews that appeared in the magazine under Debat's byline, ABC News' Web site, the Blotter, reported on Thursday.
I won't hold my breath.
Obama is not stupid enough to say that. But you know he would like to.
Sorry missed it earlier.
The story wasn’t true, but it could have been.
Perhaps a more common problem is when the interview itself is not fake, but words are taken out of context in order to advance a political agenda. The message of the interviewee is never reported.
No news here, just a typical report on the MSM.
One note, he worked for ABC when he did these reports so we was not an EX-ABC producer but was an ABC producer. He became an EX when he was caught.
As Dan might say, “Fake, but accurate.”
Yep—Couldn’t remember his exact words.
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