the only thing that ever effected her head.
Posted on 06/24/2007 8:50:58 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Cameron Diaz Apologizes for Maoist Bag
Jun 24 09:52 PM US/Eastern
LIMA, Peru (AP) - Cameron Diaz apologized Sunday for wearing a bag with a political slogan that evoked painful memories in Peru.
The voice of Princess Fiona in the animated "Shrek" films visited the Incan city of Machu Picchu in Peru's Andes on Friday wearing an olive green bag emblazoned with a red star and the words "Serve the People" printed in Chinese, perhaps Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong's most famous political slogan.
The bags are marketed as fashion accessories in some world capitals, but in Peru the slogan evokes memories of the Maoist Shining Path insurgency that fought the government in the 1980s and early 1990s in a bloody conflict that left nearly 70,000 people dead.
"I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended. The bag was a purchase I made as a tourist in China and I did not realize the potentially hurtful nature of the slogan printed on it," Diaz said in a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press.
On Friday, one prominent Peruvian human rights activist said Diaz should have been a little more aware of local sensitivities when picking her accessories.
In Sunday's statement, the star of "There's Something About Mary" said the purpose of her visit was to participate in a television show that celebrates Peru's culture. The actress has been in Peru as part of "4 REAL," a Canadian TV production that focuses on young community leaders around the world.
"I'm sorry for any people's pain and suffering and it was certainly never my intention to reopen what I now know is a painful wound in this country's history and wish for their continued healing," she said.
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the only thing that ever effected her head.
lol
I suppose that we can infer that Cameron’s head has a higher sperm count compared to the total number of neurons within her hollowed out skull.
I hear that next week she’ll be wearing Jackboots to a Bar Mitzvah…
Perhaps she meant, “Serve the People” to show her solidarity with Aztec religious practices and rain forest cannibalism.
But what she didn't realize was that this was also Mao's favorite recipe.
Bingo.
Oh come on! Olive drab looks good!
I forgive her!
http://www.liberalartists.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id=52
There are MANY “useful idiots,” on the left and in America in general:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, the term “useful idiot” has also been used by some commentators to describe individuals said to take a softer line against Islamism and terrorism. For example, Anthony Browne wrote in the United Kingdom newspaper, The Times:[7]
“ Elements within the British establishment were notoriously sympathetic to Hitler. Today the Islamists enjoy similar support. In the 1930s it was Edward VIII, aristocrats and the Daily Mail; this time it is left-wing activists, The Guardian and sections of the BBC. They may not want a global theocracy, but they are like the West’s apologists for the Soviet Union — useful idiots. ”
Similarly, Bruce C. Thornton, a professor of Classics at Cal State Fresno wrote:[8]
“ Lenin called them “useful idiots,” those people living in liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us today. Now the useful idiots can be found in the chorus of appeasement, reflexive anti-Americanism, and sentimental idealism trying to inhibit the necessary responses to another freedom-hating ideology, radical Islam.
Although Mel Martinez is a multiculturalist, he is not a communist.
I have met and listened to Bruce Thornton lecture before at a couple of ISI seminars.
http://www.isi.org/lectures/speaker_list.aspx#lstLecturers
I take anything Prof. Thornton writes or says with a lot of credibility. He is a great thinker.
Those girls are hot; Cameron is not.
Is that from the “How to serve man” episode?
It said “Serve the People”
IT’S A COOKBOOK! IT’S A COOKBOOK!
"It's a cookbook!"
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