Americans Have Some Strange Ideas, Too
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May 25 (Bloomberg) -- After International Monetary Fundchief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested and charged withsexually attacking a housekeeper in a New York City hotel room,a poll found that 57 percent of his French compatriots thoughthe was the "victim of a plot." It was tempting to think thesurvey, conducted for the newspaper 20 Minutes and BFM TV,reflected Gaullist paranoia or thickheadedness.
In all humility, however, it’s worth remembering that asizable chunk of the American public has, at times, believedthings at least as far-fetched. To wit: