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May 18, 2011 02:47 pm PDT
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Middleweight public intellectuals displeased by IMF chief rape allegation
Photo: REUTERS/Emmanuel Dunand Yesterday it was Bernard Henri-Lvy, the Cirque du Soleil of modern French philosophy. Today, it is Ben Stein, professor and presidential speechwriter, roused to insinuate that IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's alleged victim must be lying. Henri-Lvy merely waved his literary arms passionately, but Stein suggests class warfare is behind the hotel maid's claims and the "embarrassing" treatment that Strass-Kahn received. Also, did you know that in France, even printing photos of Strauss-Kahn in handcuffs is illegal? He needn't worry much, though, because the French media's obsequiousness to political and cultural elites is legendary: in 2009, after one satirist mocked Strauss-Kahn by suggesting buildings be fitted with alarms to warn women of his approach, he was fired. [Reuters]...Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/9XA8BctfeKg/middleweight-public.html
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