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Mysterious war hawk fired by ABC
Posted by Fired Fred on September 13, 2007 4:58 PM
This story is bigger than the Futon Of Love, and that's saying something because I got one of the nicer futons I could find.
ABC fired Alexis Dubat, though the language is 'asked him to resign'. That happened when he couldn't prove he really had a Ph.D from the Sorbonne, or La Sorbonne as the French call it.
The more you dig into this guy, the more questions you have to have. I know I do, and I'd rather be wondering if LT's going to have a better game against the SpyPatriots than he did against Da Bears.
His terrorism stuff about al-Qaeda and its people was solid, but an interview with Barack Obama that had his name on it never took place.
Attytood says the guy may have been helping drum up support for a war on Iran. Editor & Publisher said he faked interviews with a bunch of famous people besides Hillary Clinton's favorite Senator from Illinois.
Attytood has the scary stuff. You worry about this, I'll be hiding under my futon...
His work should cause a re-examination of all of ABC News' investigative reporting on both terrorism and Iran over the last couple of years, because -- wittingly or unwittingly -- no other network has better served the Bush agenda in the Middle East.Image courtesy of The Nixon Center, where he doesn't work anymore either.