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Diaz's bag with Maoist slogan raises ire
The Associated Press ^ | June 22, 2007

Posted on 06/22/2007 8:13:10 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

AGUAS CALIENTES, Peru -- Actress Cameron Diaz appears to have committed a major fashion faux pas in Peru. The voice of Princess Fiona in the animated "Shrek" films may have inadvertently offended Peruvians who suffered decades of violence from a Maoist guerrilla insurgency by touring here Friday with a bag emblazoned with one of Mao Zedong's favorite political slogans.

While explored the Inca city of Machu Picchu high in Peru's Andes, Diaz wore over her shoulder an olive green messenger bag emblazoned with a red star and the words "Serve the People" printed in Chinese on the flap, perhaps Chinese Communist leader Mao's most famous political slogan.

(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: communismkills; diaz; hollywood; hollywoodreds; maoist; maoslittleredbook; mccarthywasright
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To: LexRex in TN

OK, but you still exagerated her position as most liberals do. You said that if women don’t vote for Bush than they are making Rape legal. She said, “If you don’t vote, than rape could be made legal.” Why did you lie?


41 posted on 06/23/2007 3:35:55 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: napscoordinator

Actually I am not the original poster—I just located the Diaz quote that was (probably) being alluded to....


42 posted on 06/23/2007 3:38:50 AM PDT by LexRex in TN
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To: Wil H
But the bag went so well with her “CHE” tee shirt, and Hugo Chavez thong.
I guess she did not tread the “Shining Path” lightly.

Does ANYONE really ever expect ANYTHING but faux pas, social blunders and stupidity from these Hollywood assholes?
I mean really?

43 posted on 06/23/2007 4:41:50 AM PDT by Gideon T. Reader (DEMOCRATS: Not quite American. PALESTINIANS: A proud history of mindless violence since 1964.)
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To: napscoordinator
OK, but you still exagerated her position as most liberals do. You said that if women don’t vote for Bush than they are making Rape legal. She said, “If you don’t vote, than rape could be made legal.” Why did you lie?

The Diaz comment made the inference that rape would be made legal IF you did not vote against GWB. In the context of the whole episode, their positions were very clear.

There was a bit of press coverage of that Oprah episode at the time and much discussion on Free Republic. It was a leftist kaffeeklatch on par with The View. Those women should have been embarrassed to speak their crap in public, but they believed themselves to be very eloquent.

44 posted on 06/23/2007 5:14:44 AM PDT by Ghengis (Of course freedom is free. If it wasn't, it would be called expensivedom. ~Cindy Sheehan 11/11/06)
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To: P-40
Many actors are not well-educated; I never expect sense out of someone who reads to recite things back, parrot-like.
45 posted on 06/23/2007 6:28:30 AM PDT by GAB-1955 (being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Kingdom of Heaven....)
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To: napscoordinator

PC crowd? Have you read many of the responses to this thread?


46 posted on 06/23/2007 6:43:15 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: napscoordinator

I said that, and that is the clear implication of this ditz’ remarks,


47 posted on 06/23/2007 7:19:24 AM PDT by the Real fifi
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Evidently, in Peru at least, it is not considered cool to express sympathy for the nation’s murderous enemies.


48 posted on 06/23/2007 7:31:27 AM PDT by Christopher Lincoln
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To: bajabaja
Not to defend her, but we should consider that she does not know who Mao was — and what he did...

Yet, she's quite vocal in her political opinions...

49 posted on 06/23/2007 7:57:58 AM PDT by gogeo (Democrats want to support the troops without actually being helpful to them.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

She needs to spend a year in her ancestral homeland of Cuba, then she’ll be singing a whole different tune.


50 posted on 06/23/2007 7:59:10 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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To: napscoordinator
Please provide source. You need to give exact statements in writing if you are going to spread this type of information.

I saw it on Oprah. She and a few of her Hollywood friends were on topromote Rock the Vote,IIRC. She sincerely belived what she said and Opah and company just nodded in total agreement.
51 posted on 06/23/2007 10:13:25 AM PDT by RedMonqey ( The truth is never PC)
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To: napscoordinator
Do you know what PC means?

Of course she is a dimwit. It's on a par with wearing a swastika because it looked so good on Edward Norton in American History X.

52 posted on 06/23/2007 10:18:38 AM PDT by Junior_G
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy
Several black kids at my sons' school sincerely thought they'd be put back into slavery if Bush won.

This is not new. My aunt taught at an all black school in New Jersey (Plainfield). The day after Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980, kids were coming to school crying because they believed that Reagan would reimpose slavery.

Apparently their "leaders" in the Democratic party were spreading those rumors in the weeks leading up to the election in an effort to increase voter turnout.

53 posted on 06/23/2007 10:31:54 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Withhold Taxes - Starve a Liberal)
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To: ErnBatavia

welcome back!!!!


54 posted on 06/24/2007 12:19:52 AM PDT by SortaBichy
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