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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rick who wrote (49338)	5/20/2005 1:06:01 AM
From: Rick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

The Raspberry Statement "We have been inundated with messages responding to our posts on the graduation remarks by PepsiCo president Indra Nooyi at the Columbia Business School MBA recognition ceremony of this past Sunday...Ms. Nooyi's graduation remarks don't rise to {the} level of sophomoric genius. I am struck most forcibly, however, by the immaturity of her remarks; they are indeed sophomoric, as though an audacious undergraduate had sought to impersonate the distinguished executive of a multinational corporation and parody the genre of the commencement speech. The trope of the middle finger brings it almost to the level of the transcendent tastelessness of the "Harvard sucks" prank. Wes Martin seems to me to have come remarkably close to capturing the Nooyi essence. Martin wrote: Finally, the US (not Canada mind you) - yes, you guessed it - [is] the middle finger. She then launched into a diatribe about how the US is seen as the middle finger to the rest of the world. The rest of the world sees us as an overbearing, insensitive and disrespectful nation that gives the middle finger to the rest of the world. According to Ms. Nooyi, we cause the other finger nations to cower under our presence. But it is our responsibility, she continues, to change the current state of world opinion of the US. It is our responsibility to make the other fingers rise in unison with us as we move forward. She then goes on to give a personal anecdote about some disrespectful US business women in an Asian country and how that is typical of Americans overseas." It seems the Europe is the index finger pointing the way to, I assume, Marxism, Nazism, Fascism, Feudalism and Socialism, Africa it the pinkie, small and weak, Asia is the thumb, you know short and powerful, South America is the ring finger, which stands for sensuality and American is the middle finger to the world. I guess its just that we are not very good followers of the latest European fashions in politics. powerlineblog.com wizbangblog.com hughhewitt.com - Rick