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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian
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To: Zoltan! who wrote (2430)4/25/2000 8:49:00 AM
From: Michelino  Read Replies (1) of 9127
 
Pity poor George Will...His assignment was to kickstart the rabid right into another frothy frenzy.

But then the wrong intern showed up...whose research only produced leftover anecdotes from a Michelin travelogue. So George had no choice but to start mixing metaphors about Castro, Sartre and lemonade!

When Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and Stalinist, made a pilgrimage to Cuba shortly after Castro seized power, Castro squired him around. At a roadside stand they were served warm lemonade. Castro "growled" (Sartre's approving description) that the warm lemonade "reveals a lack of revolutionary consciousness." The waitress shrugged, saying the refrigerator was broken. Castro replied, "Tell your people in charge that if they don't take care of their problems, they will have problems with me."

Unable to attack the truth that Elian and His Father are happy to be together, Will was forced to spew venom in another direction:

The farcical National Council of Churches has played its familiar role as friend of leftist tyrannies.

(Translation: George doesn't like the fact that a Church representative confirmed that Elian and Papa are doing OK.)

Still it takes only a few photos and the love of a little boy for his father to put the lie to the whole theme of the wacky right:

news.bbc.co.uk
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