Conspiracy Theory Grips French: Sept. 11 as Right-Wing U.S. Plot [Or: When France went nuts]

The NYT - Front Page (online) ^ | June 22, 2002 | ALAN RIDING

[summer]

It is nonetheless puzzling why so many of the French have been willing to pay the equivalent of $17 for [this book].

....The book has proved to be a windfall for Mr. Meyssan's publisher. More accustomed to publishing marginal books on subjects like the "false" American moon landing in 1969 and the latest "truth" about U.F.O.'s, Éditions Carnot can now boast of its first best seller

The one and only reason I am posting this article is because it proved to me, for the first time, there is something seriously wrong with some French people.

I never felt that way before. I always thought criticism of the French was overstated and exaggerated, especially because I have spent time in France and enjoyed it.

However, with news that the French have made this author's book a best seller -- despite the fact its publisher previously published a book about the USA's "false" moon landing in 1969, and despite the denouncement of the book by editorial writers on the left in France, who warn of totalitarinism when a real event [the attack on the US by foreign terrorists] is regarded as 'fictional' -- as in this book, then: I am forced to conclude there is something more bizarre going on with some French people than I ever previously imagined.

[Kermit]

First, it's only 200,000 copies sold out of a population of about 60 million, of which about 6 million are Muslims. Second, even if someone bought the book, it doesn't mean they bought the ideas. Third, there are people who buy books out of curiousity, I have a copy of Mein Kampf and a copy of Das Kapital. I'm neither a nazi or a commie. So, I wouldn't condemn the entire country for this.

[Lazamataz]

I have proof that this man is advancing his theory on orders of right-wingers in American government to appear so loony that no one thinks this could actually be true, when in fact it was the Rothchild family that ordered the Mossad to fake 19 Arabs out of their ranks and send them into the planes which they parachuted out of in the last seconds because one of them was Elvis and another was Jim Morrison and we don't want them to die yet because their music is the only way we can speak to the aliens who control the Council for Foreign Relations which was set up to stop the Masons from ruling the world.

I have proof.

[Lazamataz]

So, I wouldn't condemn the entire country [of France] for this.

Everything you wrote was fine right up until this sentence.

[goldstategop]

Ann Coulter would respond "Get on with the darned program and occupy them!!!!!"

[Lazamataz]

My only question is, if everything this author wrote is true, then why has France not surrendered yet?

[goldstategop]

If everything the author claims is true, France wouldn't exist right now and neither would his book.

[Lazamataz]

Psssst. France doesn't exist. You ever been there? If so, are you sure you weren't somewhere in southern England?

They have a FranceWorld in England so people believe there is a France. But there really is no such place.

[Prodigal Son]

The one and only reason I am posting this article is because it proved to me, for the first time, there is something seriously wrong with some French people.

Oh, the French aren't the only ones who believe this crap. A whole lot of young Democrats believe it as well. Just troll around on DemUnderground and look for one of their threads about "LIHOP" - (Bush) Let It Happen On Purpose. I want to reiterate, not all of them believe it- but still a lot of 'em do and this goes some way towards explaining the number of hits this French looney gets on his website from the USA.

I'm kind of torn on this. On the one hand, I see it is a brilliant way to just let the lefties self destruct- surely if they believe this kind of crap they would also believe the moon is made of cheese. It could be used as a demonstrable fact that they aren't fit to rule (nor perhaps even to drive a car). In this vein, I think we should get Cynthia McKinney to visit this theory and have her state her official belief in it- obviously discrediting her. The media, at long last, would have to address these lunatic fringe leftists as the psychos that they are and a whole segment of the lefties would get discredited and demonized in the press the way the Christian Right has been. The GOP could appeal to the American public as the "Voice of Reason" in a world gone mad and I figure there are enough rational people left out there who would respond to that.

Imagine being able to refer to that in a Presidential debate- "While my Democratic opponent here has been out chasing UFOs and watching the X-Files, my National Security team has been putting together a realistic and comprehensive plan to deal with this very real threat to our security..."

BUT on the other hand, nowadays I don't have enough faith in the average young person out there not to see why this is an obvious fiction- ie I think a lot of young Americans have been set up to believe this thing, just like they believe Clinton is a saint. I wouldn't want those people voting. Could you imagine Bush not getting reelected because of a bunch of certifiable fruitcakes that believed this theory voted against him?

[chiefqc]

They did, but they will not confirm this until this moron writes his next book.

TITLED:

"Why we wimps by a real french moron"

[KS Flyover]

Testing . . . . . . . . . . OOPS!

[Double Tap]

Bunch of cheese eating surrender monkeys!

[proxy_user]

Unfortunately, it is impossible to say how many really believe this, and how many are just doing it for a joke or to discredit the opposition.

I personally believe there are many trolls and disingenuous people who do not believe it, but spread it anyway in order to make trouble.

[Lazamataz]

I think we should get Cynthia McKinney to visit this theory and have her state her official belief in it- obviously discrediting her.

uhhhhhh........ hate to tell you, but......

[aSkeptic]

I've been waiting for this sort of thing.. Next we'll hear that gwb flew a jet into the first trade tower and cheney flew into the second trade tower. Yes.. of course its obsurd. but I'm sure at least one person out there would buy a copy.

[aSkeptic]

lol!

[cgbg]

Next we'll hear that gwb flew a jet into the first trade tower and cheney flew into the second trade tower.

No, it wan't them, silly. It was their clones. Why do you think W opposes cloning? He wants it just for his friends, not for anybody else. ;-)

[Bottom_Gun]

My only question is, if everything this author wrote is true, then why has France not surrendered yet?
Reminds me of that line from Tim Allen's stand up routine "France can't fight worth a sh*t, but man could they cook, which is why everyone invades them" *L*

[Cleburne]

Oh! Enlightened one, tell us more. Does this have anything to do with the faked moon-landings?

[Lazamataz]

Actually, it's more involved then you think.

Here's the Real Deal.