Time for a Blogger Ethics Panel

Nixon Center fellow Alex Debat publishes fake interview with Barack Obama in respected French journal.

Comments

Hello. The Nixon Center.

Posted by Jeffrey Davis | September 9, 2007 8:44 PM

Jeffery Davis nails it.

Posted by gregor | September 9, 2007 8:54 PM

Debat was also the primary source for an alarmist "We're going to bomb Iran" article in the Sunday Times last week:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2369001.ece

Posted by Flatlander | September 9, 2007 10:24 PM

The best part by far:

"It is a fake. Incroyable!" declared Obama's spokesman, Ben LaBolt, when we sent him a copy of the interview in Politique Internationale.

Posted by Anonymous | September 10, 2007 12:35 PM

Hmm, has the Politique Internationale scrubbed this interview? I can't seem to find it.

Posted by Howard | September 10, 2007 12:44 PM

The article --about Debat -- is interesting in the original French.(Select from right menu on page cited in above link)

An excerpt:
" Interview rare: le sénateur noir de l'Illinois a jusque-là évité les interviews à la presse étrangère. "

"le sénateur noir"???

What's Lindsey Graham? "le senateur blanc des blancs"??

Posted by Don Williams | September 11, 2007 10:43 AM