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June 8th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Within days, furious locals hit back with a Facebook page called “Les
Creusois against Technikart”, where 1,500 followers freely vented their
anger against Parisian snobs.
“I wouldn’t give up my peaceful life in the Creuse for survival in Paris
for anything in the world,” wrote one called Jocelyne. “Much more
interesting things happen here than in the Parisian grime,” wrote
Sylvain, adding that while Parisians passed each other by “like zombies”,
in Guéret “the real values are human”. “A complaint or a
bullet!,” wrote Fabrice.
One of the most virulent critics was Stéphanie Dagge, an English writer who
moved to the area from Cork six years ago with her husband and three
children to run a llama trekking farm and carp fishery. Her youngest
daughter, Caitlin, goes to school in Guérert.
“All in all it’s an unprovoked, hateful tirade from an outsider about a
friendly (apart from a couple of government departments!), pleasant country
town,” she wrote in her blog on expat life in rural France. “I
suppose its purpose was to win a cheap laugh from its sophisticated
readership. Boy, has it backfired!,” she wrote .
“The Technikart crowd may think everything is better and classier in
Paris, but just maybe it isn’t.”
Local youths interviewed by the magazine later complained they had been
misquoted and the row snowballed into a political issue ahead of this
month’s legislative elections.
Guéret’s Socialist mayor, Michel Vergnier, also running for re-election as
local MP, published a written response in Technikart saying: “These
words wound and anger me.”
“We readily accept criticism as it is a source of progress, we can laugh
about jokes or caricatures that are sometimes levelled at us, but we refuse
the insult that is made here.”
Faced with the deluge of criticism, the magazine’s editor Raphaël Turcat told
regional newspaper Montagne that the row would not stop him visiting “this
superb region, where visibly, the pride of certain inhabitants is inversely
proportional to their sense of humour”.
He issued a grudging apology in this month’s editorial saying he it was “easy
to understand and regret that some people felt insulted by certain
statements in this article”. But he added that the magazine would
continue to express “our humour, our big mouth and sometimes our
provocations.”
The mayor, meanwhile, has invited the editorial team to a barbecue to clear
the air.
“I hope they get heckled,” wrote Mrs Dagge.
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