DSK - A Study in Mediocrity

Everyone's favorite banker is back in the headlines. Sunday night, for 23 minutes, Dominique Strauss-Kahn gave his version of the events on French television TF1. In the video of the interview with Claire Chazal (a friend of Anne Sinclair), he comes across as a pompous hypocrite, a character straight out of Molière's gallery of self-important puffed-up sybarites, a complete phony, who gives himself a slap on the wrist for his naughty behavior.

But few were fooled. The message boards indicate that many Frenchmen feel he lied about everything, that the interview was obviously pre-rehearsed, and that it would have been better if he had stayed home.

He is not a good liar and he is not a good actor. He's solemn, oh so solemn, he pretends to look sad as he unconvincingly claims to feel sorry for his betrayal of the trust the French people had in him, and he waves the Prosecutor's Report in the air as if it were a banner proving beyond a doubt his innocence, which it does not.

And he is evil. His eyes betray a cruelty and a coldness that his silver tongue cannot conceal.

While I would like to translate the entire interview, it would take a long time, and other things are more important. Maybe it will appear in English on YouTube one day. The next best thing, and perhaps even better than a translation , is this "letter from Paris" by Joseph Harriss, an American journalist who lives in France. His description coincides perfectly with my own impressions. I especially appreciate his comments about the demeanor and appearance of Strauss-Kahn, who looked mummified with eyelids painted bright pink and heavy pancake.

I have to admit I was surprised at how bad he was. I expected a more skilled performance. He betrayed not only his hypocrisy, but his mediocrity in matters of finance, since he feels that Greece needs to be bailed out, when it is obvious to all, including economic dummies like myself, that bailing out one country after another, while the richer countries are going broke on immigration and welfare, may not work.

One thing Mr. Harriss does not mention, but which should be noted as extremely important in an ominous way, were the closing statements by Strauss-Kahn in which he expressed his hopes for an immigration to replace the dying European population. A reader was kind enough to send that statement in English:

He was also interested "in the problem of demographics, because we are getting older, and it brings the problem of immigration, which must not be dodged –but we won't talk about it tonight. But we need immigration, organized in a welcoming way, or else, our countries will get too old."

This is pure evil. His country is dying because European women are either not having children or having abortions. The school system no longer transmits the French heritage to the young; Catholic priests are ashamed of being priests; non-French food, authorized by imams, is being shoved down the throats of everyone including children in their school cafeterias; crime has broken the spirit of a once-free people who never feared the subway, or the buses, or the lonely small streets in the more ancient sections of their towns; young people are being encouraged and even threatened to intermarry with other races to prevent "in-breeding"; a "lead cover" (what they call a "chape de plomb") has choked free speech and extinguished rational thought; dissent is labeled "racism"; all this and more is happening every day and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who would be president if he could, wants more.

In his closing words he revealed what he really is: anti-culture, anti-French, anti-Western, and anti-human.