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2010-08-03 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by Frank G 2010-08-03 08:20|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Hitch gets into high gear when his subject combines extreme stupidity and superstition with great influence, prestige or power: members of the House of Windsor, Mikey Moore, Hugo... This is Hitch in fine form-- "an awkwardness descended on the conversation":

As [Chavez's] tirade against evil America mounted, Sean Penn broke in to say that surely Chávez would be happy to see the arrest of Osama Bin Laden.

I was hugely impressed by the way that the boss scorned this overture. He essentially doubted the existence of al-Qaida, let alone reports of its attacks on the enemy to the north. "I don't know anything about Osama Bin Laden that doesn't come to me through the filter of the West and its propaganda." To this, Penn replied that surely Bin Laden had provided quite a number of his very own broadcasts and videos. I was again impressed by the way that Chávez rejected this proffered lucid-interval lifeline. All of this so-called evidence, too, was a mere product of imperialist television. After all, "there is film of the Americans landing on the moon," he scoffed. "Does that mean the moon shot really happened? In the film, the Yanqui flag is flying straight out. So, is there wind on the moon?" As Chávez beamed with triumph at this logic, an awkwardness descended on my comrades, and on the conversation.

Chávez, in other words, is very close to the climactic moment when he will announce that he is a poached egg and that he requires a very large piece of buttered toast so that he can lie down and take a soothing nap.

Posted by lex 2010-08-03 08:44|| 2010-08-03 08:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Buttered toast does make for a soothing nap.

Posted by Keenster 2010-08-03 11:24|| 2010-08-03 11:24|| Front Page Top

#3 He's a whackjob my countrymen have decided to finance by transferring to him a strategic industry.

So who are the biggest whackjobs?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-08-03 12:09|| 2010-08-03 12:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Whackjob? The guy posing with a fish? That guy?

Posted by tu3031 2010-08-03 12:51|| 2010-08-03 12:51|| Front Page Top

#5 I can`t decide whether he is guessing the weight, offering it to some heathen god or returning it to the fishmonger with a demand for something fresher.

Posted by Grunter in Lima 2010-08-03 14:23|| 2010-08-03 14:23|| Front Page Top

#6 or "slices like an effin' hammer", as the case may be...

Posted by mojo 2010-08-03 17:06|| 2010-08-03 17:06|| Front Page Top

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