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Jet Foncannon

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Aug 29, 2009, 11:26:47 PM8/29/09
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Can anyone on this list suggest why US news agencies weren't on top of
this horrifying story?

http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=haught_29_5

Anthony Walls

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Aug 29, 2009, 11:29:19 PM8/29/09
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Because it probably never really happened.

Jet Foncannon

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Aug 29, 2009, 11:34:11 PM8/29/09
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> From: Anthony Walls <ske...@lists.opn.org>

Do you know something I don't know? This article was posted on the
Council for Secular Humanism's website. Perhaps someone can check the Si
Vous le Ripitez, Je Dimentirai (If You Repeat it, I Will Deny), released
in March by the publisher Plon.


Anthony Walls

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Aug 29, 2009, 11:38:52 PM8/29/09
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>>Because it probably never really happened.
>
>Do you know something I don't know? This article was posted on the
>Council for Secular Humanism's website. Perhaps someone can check the Si
>Vous le Ripitez, Je Dimentirai (If You Repeat it, I Will Deny), released
>in March by the publisher Plon.

Do you read everything the Council posts and believe it because they
said so? Do you really think something this ridicules would have
gotten covered up until now by a left winger like Chirac? Jeez the
CFCH is just as radical as any right wing group when it comes to
logic as any other nut bag group.

Jet Foncannon

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Aug 30, 2009, 12:06:04 AM8/30/09
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Anthony Walls' post prompted me to investigate the Haught article.
There is a wide-ranging debate on the web about the authenticity of the
story related in "A French Revolution, or the Burning Bush." One poster
on blueoctoberfan.com asked Haught for references, and Haught
provided him with a list of six newspaper articles, in Europe, Canada,
USA. However, the poster insisted, the original story seems to appear
only in the book "Si Vous le Ripitez, Je Dimentirai".

In 2007, Dr. Romer recounted Bush's strange behavior in Lausanne
University's review, Allez Savoir. A French-language Swiss newspaper, Le
Matin Dimanche, printed a sarcastic account titled: "When President George
W. Bush Saw the Prophesies of the Bible Coming To Pass." France's La
Liberte likewise spoofed it under the headline "A Small Scoop on Bush,
Chirac, God, Gog and Magog." But other news media missed the amazing
report.

Perhaps someone on this list can locate the article in Lausanne
University's review, Allez Savoir, by Romer. I have moved from credibilty
to skepticism about the veracity of the incident. Romers testimony about
it would convince me, one way or the other.

The facts that European Newspapers are indefatigable Bush trashers
and the French sometimes manifest an elegant inattention to facts
confuse the issue.

kurt youngmann

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Aug 30, 2009, 5:38:11 PM8/30/09
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> From: Jet Foncannon <ske...@lists.opn.org>

True or not, it reminds me of the astrology espoused in the White House
during the Reagan administration.

Kurt Youngmann

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