>What is that alternative? I am trying to get somebody to say that he is lying instead of skirting around the issue, but nobody will do that.
If you are talking about alternatives, you can not discard the ones that you do not like. And why do you want to get somebody to say that he is lying? On the other hand, do you think Michel Fournier is lying?
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