Not one plausible argument has been put forward by anyone in the mainstream American media about the amazing coincidence that a man who may be said to have a history of aggressing on women would get caught so close to a pivotal presidential election in France. That is, except for the New York Times which notes that "Well before Mr. Strauss-Kahn's arrest there had been reports that Mr. Sarkozy was gathering information to discredit Mr. Strauss-Kahn should he run for president."
There have been many different accounts of what happened in that hotel room on Saturday afternoon before Mr. Strauss-Kahn's departure for his flight back to Paris. One account suggests that the maid, whose identity cannot be released, was dragged from the foyer into the bathroom, and that she was later treated for minor injuries.
Every account so far agrees that the chambermaid entered Kahn's room thinking that he had already checked out, something that has happened to me once or twice when I forgot to use the chain lock, or put up the "Do Not Disturb" sign. All accounts agree, too, that he had just gotten out of the shower, and was naked when she entered. I don't know anyone who takes a shower with his clothes on, do you? Where it goes from there is dicey, and the details get murky.
As the NYT also suggests, there are some in France who believe the Sofitel incident was a "set-up" masterminded by French president Sarkozy to ruin his biggest rival. Mr. Kahn is widely considered Sarkozy's Socialist nemesis.
Ostensibly, something criminal, or extraordinarily embarrassing, would force someone to flee a hotel room the way Strauss-Kahn did, but there hasn't been one narrative put forward in his defense. He's already been effectively prosecuted by the Murdoch-controlled media, in the U.S., which would incline to favor a Sarkozy win.
I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but is it random, and irrelevant that this happened at the Hotel "Sofitel," a French hotel, and the maid, too, is rumored to be French, and this event coincidentally happens in the lead-up to a major presidential campaign? No one would be so cynical as to suggest that the maid lied, only that she may have been persuaded to exaggerate a bit, or not tell the whole story.
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