Dear god, the rhetorical questions. Yes Chris, we're definitely happy to have you end the conversation with rhetorical questions. 'How would I have gotten it if I didn't speak French?" Seriously, either he's really dumb and didn't realize how easy it was to get, or he's really, really dumb to think people will believe that.
Answer: "hmm, I dunno, maybe the same way as EVERY OTHER FOREIGN CYCLIST GOT DRUGS"?
It's funny, until a couple of years ago I did suspect that it was possible that Horner raced clean in the heyday of doping, and even thought that his results getting better in his mid-30s could possibly be explained by that narrative. But then he opened his mouth about Lance, etc, and simultaneously became a world-beater at age 40, that's a bridge too far to give the benefit of the doubt. Maybe that is the case, and he really didn't get drugs because he was too stupid to realize how easy they were to get or too stubborn to 'learn French' or whatever, and now that he's been on real teams he has found how to get the real goods. That seems consistent with his total confirmation that he has no moral problem with doping.
Either way, 'I didn't even speak French' and 'there was no internet back then' are up there with 'me and my teammates have slept on volcanos' as the best doping deflections of the year.