Fake interviews by former ABC consultant

Why doesn't this headline surprise me?

"Ex-ABC consultant said to fake interview"

A former ABC News consultant fired last year because he couldn't authenticate academic credentials is at the center of a new dispute over apparently faked interviews with Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Gates and others.

The consultant, Alexis Debat, quit the Nixon Center, a Washington think tank, on Wednesday after Obama's representatives claimed an interview with the senator appearing under Debat's byline in the French magazine Politique Internationale never took place. The interview quoted the Democratic presidential candidate as saying the Iraq war was "a defeat for America."

Of course, on the other hand, even when they actually DO interview their subjects, the resulting product often seems just as manufactured.