French Comedian Jean Marie Bigard and the Use of the "Revisionism" Hammer

Apparently he said something like "9/11 was an inside job" and now has people calling him a Holocaust denier and threatening to mutilate his wife.

Translation by Kevin Barrett
Sujet rough translation of bigard interview Date 20/10/2008 19h04
Kevin Barrett's rough translation of Jean-Marie Bigard's interview on Canal + (about 90% complete, contains all of the important references to 9/11. Caution: may include a few relatively minor inaccuracies that could be corrected by native French speakers):

Bigaud: "In the afternoon, on European Radio, everybody was relaxed, we were like pals in the bistro, so we were all relaxed...nobody was aware that we were three days away from 9/11...and me, I opened my big mouth about 9/11, and I was speaking (informally) like in a bistro...we were speaking, and it's true...I said some things that were shocking, that's all, and it was recorded, automatically, by European Radio..."

Interviewer: "You said some shocking things."

Bigaud: "I said, like I would have said in a bistro, the same style. And therefore...the next day, the front page of the newspaper said 'Bigard Denies 9/11.' An elision, terrible though, meaning 'Bigard challenges the version given by the American government of the events of 9/11.' (But) 'Bigard Denies 9/11'! Terrible! How can one deny it! How could I deny, I who know the subject backwards and forwards. How could I possibly deny that 2,801 people, including 357 firemen, were murdered during the events of 9/11! It's terrible! The Canard Echainé and Charlie Hébdo were mocking me, plunging into it, slashing at me, treating me like a révisioniste (Holocaust denier), comparing the supposed denial of 2,800 families in mourning, to denying that six million Jews were killed during World War II. This is extremely serious! That was the least funny part of their sketch, that moment. (Their claiming that) 'I deny the Holocaust.' Therefore the Canard and Charlie Hébdo I really want to say to them bravo, if you really wanted to damage me, you have succeeded very well, because it's well known that if you're attacked as a révisioniste (Holocaust denier), you get a flood of threatening letters, death threats."

Interviewer: "You've received death threats?"

Bigaud: "Yes, three death threats, including 'We're going to kill you and your wife, we're going to rape your wife, we're going to cut off her tits the way the Twin Towers were cut down on 9/11..." So I'm mortified...I offered an apology to those who were shocked by what I said. I mean, I didn't kill a puppy dog or anything...I just said what I thought, that's all."

Interviewer: "But what you said..."

Bigaud: "What I said, everyone can always go back to it, it's gone viral on the internet, everyone can go see it. What I said --because, once again, I was taking no precautions about the way I was saying it-- it wasn't a live broadcast, but if I could do it again I would say exactly the same thing, namely, that I am extremely skeptical about various things..."

Interviewer: "You're skeptical about (what happened at) the Pentagon?"

Bigaud: "I have enormous doubts about these things. And I would say the same thing again, but taking precautions about the way I said it that I didn't take. And therefore I'm getting death threats, because these journalists put my life in danger. So I apologized and said that I am not a révisioniste (Holocaust denier). Please, don't attack me as a révisioniste. And from there, I won't budge any more. Because when you're forced to back up, if you keep wiggling around, you give pleasure (an orgasm) to the guy behind you. (laughter) So don't ever wiggle, don't budge! And then you sneak out quietly. It's an old technique that's been proven to work. The blows are falling on my head, but fewer and fewer of them, and my would-be executioners are gradually getting worn out. The epilogue: Friday before last, Laurent Routier, very brave and very kind, said to me 'I'm very sorry, I feel responsible, we should have cut all those things you said, you should never have had to suffer that tsunami, come back and make us laugh. (But then he discovered that he had been banned from European Television.)

(resuming at 6:00) :

Interviewer: "Do you regret having said what you said?"

Bigaud: "I say that if I had said exactly the same thing, but having taken precautions about how I said it...I'm saying that in France, we live in a country where we can speak along with tens of millions of people around the world, and tens of millions in America alone, that one must say, along with the big stars, who haven't been attacked for it, by the way -- David Lynch, Martin Sheen, Charlie Sheen, Sharon Stone, Jim Corr from the group the Corrs, parliamentarian Yukihisa Fujita from Japan -- they all ask exactly the same questions I'm asking, but taking precautions about how they say it. In France, one must say 'I am skeptical,' then 'I'm very skeptical,' and finally 'but can you answer my questions?' Then 'What, you can't respond to my questions? Therefore I have enormous doubts.' And finally 'We need to reopen this case.' There were 2,801 people murdered, and huge numbers of people, 36% of Americans, say this case needs to be reopened. They spent 15 million dollars investigating 9/11, but 42 million dollars to find out if Bill Clinton got a blow job on top the desk or under the desk. (laughter) Thus 42 million dollars for a little presidential blow-job..." (laughter and applause)

Interviewer: "But you can't mix the two together!"

Bigaud: "Three times less money for the biggest attack the US has ever experienced, compared to a little presidential blow-job...yes, I think that shows I'm right."

Interviewer: "But you revised what you said?"

Bigaud: "No, no! I'm simply saying that if people want to know, they are going to see...I said what I said, I said without any precautions about the way I said it. Instead of saying 'I'm skeptical' (about the government's account) I said 'I'm sure' (that it was an inside job). And that was a mistake. Instead of saying 'I'm sure,' I should have said 'I'm very skeptical.' And believe me, there are enormous numbers of people who are very skeptical. Tens of millions of people. And if ever some day it were necessary to discuss this again, it shouldn't be just with a big-mouth comedian like me, but with the experts -- the architects, the scientists, the ministers of transportation, and other people with expertise in their fields."

This last is audio only -- evidently what he actually said when he was "conversing as if in a bistro." French speakers (real or self-deluding, as in my case) wanna take a stab at deciphering it?