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French President's Comedian Friend Reaffirms 9/11 Skepticism 

Bigard Won't Back Down 

By Kevin Barrett, http://www.barrettforcongress.us 

French comedian Jean-Marie Bigard, a friend of President Sarkozy, created a major scandal last month when the Europe 1 network aired his remarks affirming that 9/11 was an inside job. As The Independent reported, Bigard said that "it was 'absolutely sure and certain' that the US government had stage-managed the 9/1l attacks in which 2, 896 people died. 'The two planes which crashed in a forest and on the Pentagon never existed. There never were any planes. It's an absolutely enormous lie,' M. Bigard said. 'It was an American missile which hit the Pentagon. That's now been proved. It was a programmed demolition.'" 

After receiving a flurry of death threats, Bigard said he was sorry if he had offended anyone. But he is not backing down from his pro-9/11-truth position, as his October 17^th Canal + interview makes clear. You can watch the interview, as well as his earlier remarks, at: http://911blogger.com/node/18189   Below is a translation of the interview. 

Title: Jean-Marie Bigard Tells It Like It Is -- Pooping on the Rug -- Again! 

(Broadcast live on Canal + Friday evening, October 17^th) 

Translated from the French by Eric Beeth, M.D. and Dr. Kevin Barrett  

Jean-Marie Bigard was invited to the Grand Journal de Canal +, the big news hour of Canal +, a large private TV station which broadcasts in French throughout Europe. He explains his positions on 9/11 and confirms his strong skepticism toward the official version.  

Bigard: I'm happy to say Jacques that I'm now feeling better, a lot better than, let's say, two weeks ago. You know, I was thinking about fleeing the country and translating my theater comedy show Cleremeard into Portugese to play it in Rio de Janeiro...but no, it's better. You know, I'm happy, I feel like it's back-to-school-time for me again. I'm back on the television set thanks to you here at Canal +. 

Interviewer: I've heard you had some troubles over at Europe 1.  

Other Interviewer: Yes, please tell us what happened over at Europe 1.  

Bigard: Well, yes, it's quite a story. I'll explain to you how it happened. I came on a Friday, it is now over five weeks ago, to Laurent at Europe 1, and we were being taped for the radio. Since it was not a live show, we all relaxed like good buddies in the bistro and we could talk. None of us had in mind that it was three days before September 11^th, and I opened my big mouth about September 11^th, and I talked about it just as if I were in a pub with friends. No big deal. And, you know, my thoughts were, well, the radio show will be redacted, like they always are, if I ever said something that could be perceived as shocking, it would be cut out--you know how they usually do it--and so we could just talk like among friends. The next day: tsunami! I have the newspaper Liberation headlined "Jean-Marie Bigard Denies September 11^th" which is a formidable shortcut for saying "Jean-Marie Bigard contests the official version that the United States government gave of the events of September 11^th." They say "He denies September 11^th." That's a strong statement! How could one deny--I who know the subject by heart--how could one deny that 2801 persons, including 354 New York firemen, were killed, assassinated, during the events of September 11^th. It's outrageous that this was said of me. On top of that, the journals Le Canard Enchainé and Charlie Hébdo who have wanted to get back at me for quite some time now, they throw themselves into the crevasse, they break with all restraint and call me a révisionniste (Holocaust denier). That is, from the first wrong statement that I deny 2801 people being killed in an outrageous act on September 11^th, they also pass me off as denying that six million Jews were killed during World War II. That is quite serious. It's the least funny part of the sketch that I have for you today, they're saying that I deny the Shoah, and thus Le Canard Enchainé and Charlie Hébdo -- I'll say to them "Bravo, I take my hat off to you, if it was your intention to hurt me. Because it succeeded. Because, you know, a famous person, when you're treated as a revisionniste, you get a rain of threatening letters, death threats...three death threats that they were going to kill me and my wife. And a stronger one: We will first rape your wife and see that her breasts fall as the Twin Towers did. These kinds of things. I was paralyzed, receiving these kinds of threats, (that was their) effect on me. We see film stars sometimes smiling when they receive death threats, but in reality, it didn't have that effect on me. I sent out an express message to the news agencies asking for forgiveness if I had hurt anybody with what I said. I didn't kill a puppy dog, I just said what I thought, that's all.

What I said is on the public record. Anyone can go to a website and see what I said, it's going round and round (all over the internet). You see, I had taken no oratory precautions in saying these things, since we were not broadcasting live. If I could do it over, I would say exactly the same thing, but I would have said it (in a different way), like: "I am very skeptical about this or that aspect of the official government version of the events, and I have an enormous number of doubts about this and that." You see, I would have said the same thing, but I would have taken elementary precautions.

So you see, during this affair, I was receiving a number of death threats. Those journalists were putting my life in danger. So I asked for forgiveness -- officially -- and I declared I am not a revisionniste, please do not treat me as if I were a révisionniste. I played dead, then I did not say another word. You know, if you are being raped in the ass, you should not budge, because if you start squirming around you bring the bastard behind you to an orgasm, thus it is better not to move, and the bugger will move off slowly. You know, that is an old technique that has been around for some time. Because it works. So gradually, there are fewer and fewer of these beating buggers, torturers and executioners around me, and the situation calms down.

And as an epilogue, eight days ago, Laurent Ruquien, very courageous and very nice, he says "listen Jean-Marie, I'm very sorry, I feel that I'm to blame. We should have cut out all those things you said, you wouldn't have had to endure this terrible tsunami, you wouldn't have been thrown to the lynch mob. I'm sure glad they didn't actually hurt you. Please come back to Europe 1, come and make us laugh as only you know how to do, and come every day on our program, come and make us laugh. So I show up at Europe 1 with my moustache and my scooter, happy like a rat that's going to the apple, and I arrive--and see the sad face of Laurent, telling me: "Jean-Marie, I don't know how to tell you this, but the management of Europe 1 refuses to let you go on the air." And again very courageously, Laurent (Ruquien), who does not at all share my ideas, he picks up his telephone and calls Phillipe Balant, who's in charge of programming for Europe 1, and says: "Phillipe, can you take charge of this? Jean-Marie Bigard is here to do a program with us, but the management refuses. What should we do?" Phillipe Balant confirms that I am not allowed to go on the air at Europe 1.

You know, I'm pretty much a heavyweight in French comedy. I don't know if this has happened before in French history. I am thus denied access to the grand media of Europe 1 for an unspecified amount of time. So actually I'm still being punished for saying what I thought.  

Interviewer: Well, I guess your public is also a bit perturbed, since you are such a well-known comedian, you've had four million spectators at your one man shows, which is a historical record for the arts in France. Maybe your public, that appreciates you on stage, does not want to know your private opinions about what you think about September 11^th? 

Bigard: I say exactly, that if I could have said exactly the same things I said, but had also taken some oratory precautionary measures...that is, in France, we live in a country where one must say, like tens of millions of people around the world--tens of millions of people in the United States alone...that one must say, like other big celebrities like David Lynch, Martin Sheen, Charlie Sheen, Sharon Stone, Jim Corr from the group  The Corrs, parlimentarian Giulietto Chiesa, Deputy Fujita in Japan, who are asking the same questions as me, but they take oratory precautions. In France, one must say "I am skeptical," and then "I am very skeptical," and then one must ask: "Please, now, could someone answer my question. Oh, it isn't possible for someone to answer my question? Well, then, that means I have doubts." And then after that one says, "I am asking that we re-open this criminal investigation. There were 2,801 people assassinated, and an enormous number of Americans, about 35% of them, are of the opinion that a 9/11 investigation needs to be done in an independent and scientific/legal way.

Again, if I were to say one single thing: The 9/11 Commission inquiry cost 15 million dollars. Fifteen million dollars! The Americans spent 42 million dollars to find out whether Bill Clinton had his blow-job done on top of the desk or under the desk. So that means 42 million dollars for one little blow job on the president's desk... 

Interviewer: No, no, Jean-Marie, you cannot make this comparison! 

Bigard: Hell, $15 million, three times less money to investigate the the biggest mass murder ever inflicted on the United States, compared to a little blow job on the president's desk. Yes, those two investigations DO need to be compared! 

Interviewer: So the upshot is that you're reiterating what you said on Europe 1. 

Bigard: No, I'm simply saying that if people want to find out what happened, they can find out. What I said (then), I said it without oratory precautions. That is, instead of saying that I was skeptical, I said I was sure. That was an error. I should not have said I was sure, I should have said I was very skeptical. And believe me, there are an enormous number of people who are very skeptical, many tens of millions of people. And if one day we were to discuss these things, it would be best not with a big-mouth comedian like me, but with the experts: architects, engineers, scientists, people from the Ministry of Transportation, a whole group of people who are qualified on these issues.  

In the end, Bigaud says how happy he was to see that while the news people were piling excrement on him for what he had said on Europe 1, in the culture pages they were giving only roses to his new show Cleremeard.
 

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