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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: art slott who wrote (7135)	6/8/2000 10:07:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9127

I'm mad at myself this morning because I stayed up late to watch the Maher show-- and it wasn't worth it. Donato isn't bright enough to know he was looking at headlights. He sees spotlights shining on him, him, him, the Savior of Elian, an event which "changed his life," He has a preprogrammed spiel that he's worked out for every Elian buzzword- it's like hitting buttons- press "father" and out comes the "Castro is a dictator- Juan has no rights" spiel. You could have been asking about Father Christmas, or Father Time, or Bless me, Father, and gotten the same response-- like a Search Engine in reverse. "Cuban Americans are beautiful people" "DO you know what it's like to have a (whatever that gun was) pointed in your face?" (Was it worth 100 million dollars?) "You just aren't educated about the issues" He had the gall to say this to the panel. And "You're naive." Bill Maher was pretty ticked at that. The lawyer was AWFUL. He tried so hard to be witty (and wasn't)and cool and superior. Bill Maher sits there rolling his eyes and being oh so sarcastically above it all, which maybe is entertaining but doesn't exactly lead into indepth questioning. Nobody answers anything, everyone shouts. Funniest moment- Mo'Nique, one of the panel, is a very large black woman- presumably from a sitcom, though I didn't catch which show. When Maher brought up the 11th Circuit Court's decision and asked if there wasn't a point where it was time to say- enough. Donato said, It ain't over til the fat lady sings", Mo'Nique let out this wonderful Wagnerian note. Most pukey moment (Well there were several) Donato leaps out of his seat to face the audience and cries, "It was a divine miracle!" He never did answer why he thought he deserved any money. And laughably at one point, when Mo'Nique asked about it, he said "I haven't made one CENT off this whole thing!" Umm-- Donato? Remember the lawsuit? Unfortunately there was a glitch in his programming and all you got when you pressed "lawsuit" was, "This poor little boy, gun in face, awful agents, terrible betrayal by Reno" type stuff-