After the french went with the dreaded sarkozy syndrome to prop up the bushbaby we can conclude that the propaganda paid for by the us military and neo con solutions R US crowd would blowback to many interesting places like this.

Daddy needs his meds. Wow!!! Bush Delusional Hysteria is such a tragic epidemic. Even when liberal media folks lie to make Bush look bad it's fault? Don't try to understand the BDS mind.

Look for another Rovelike campaign of lies and deception. The conservative press headline also was misleading. Objectively, with what was known at time of publication, simply "Obama Interview Faked" was appropriate.

And ABC is conservative? Yeah...OK.

You people(USA) missed entirely the fact that bushbaby created an underground executive branch, but not one for the judicial or legislative branch. Where do you think karl rover now resides and works..you got it...the underground executive branch...talk about offtable financing...add that to your debt servicing agreement someday, OK????

Obama 'claims' interview a fake?? The interview WAS a fake. That's what the headline should have been. Is there any such thing as respectable journalism anymore?

You notice how they have polls asking how peope rate the president and Congress? How about a poll rating the media. Want to see some REAL low numbers?

I love what I read about Obama and his Healthcare Proposal

Americans know nothing about the French press. This is just the latest illustration.

The only decent "background check" on the French press in American English, in fact, appears to be a piece that came out in "The New Yorker" several years ago.

The piece dealt humorously yet seriously with issues like several French editors/pundits who are now quite conservative having been Maoists in the 60s.

Also and not insignificantly, the consolidation of the French press was discussed. I.e. that there used to be five major papers in Paris but now are only three was a subject that was fairly treated.

"The New Yorker" even explained how one paper had used the French sociologist/maitre a penser Pierre Bourdieu as something of a standard bearer at one point, but then had decided to dump Bourdieu. As one person explained the uses and abuses of Bourdieu by his paper, it was a marketing decision. There was no remorse at using Bourdieu! In sum, the writer did a thorough job of getting the nitty gritty.

The moral of the story is that to understand the French press, you really need to read the French press. All the dailies, the blogs, etc. You cannot rely, after all, for a good article from "The New Yorker" to come out every generation to explain what the heck is going on in France with the press.

If a major news outlet like ABC cannot figure this out, that's too bad. Is it because perhaps nobody at ABC knows the French scene and even reads and speaks French? Could be.

Also, it should be noted that "Politique Internationale" is hardly a big deal in France. It's got predictable stuff.

Should be noted that this Jayson Blairesque affair is not without precedent. I.e. Blair did this at the NYT. And Mike Davis, as well, who is on the editorial board at "The New Left Review" has also done this. It came out last year, for example, that Davis fabricated an interview for a book that he wrote.

Debat's work was of high quality and he got caught into some of the intricacies of DC machineries. His work was of excellent quality. Never anyone said:"well, hey, where is this guy coming from with this information?" because his credentials are real. The sad thing is that his complete credibility and work is now being questioned because he got caught in the game. What about the so called Middle east experts who do not speak a word of Arabic and have never set foot in the Middle East? What about the so called Strategists and hip people alike in the academia who know how to schmooze their way around without a substantial work to back them? What about the fact that the most famous saying in DC is "What matter is who you know not what you know"? You don't hear anyone of them being called fakes or impostors? This is not FEMA case. Debat had credential and high quality work to back his status and fame. It is regrettable that he got caught. For all we know, Obama's people may be lying, refusing to take responsability for such a statement. Finally, this is the only incident that we know of, the other interviews were all real, so please before preaching about making up things get your sources correct too.