Is This the Best We Can Do?
I mean it. Is this the best we can do?
Seriously… The pissing contest between the Ethiopian and Eritrean ambassadors on CNN’s Diplomatic License… it is so surreally, garrulously retarded; regressively obtuse. Neither missed a single stereotype of present day African warlords in pin-striped suits. Demagoguery? Check. Scripted apparatchik creepiness? Check. Pre-school boy boorishness? Check. Tawdry bouncing of reality checks? Check. Being treated like “pain in the ass Africans who are going to war over nothing, and dragging us into pleading with them not to kill their own people… again!” by a haughty, perfectly coiffed anchor? Priceless.
Ugh, ugh, ugh.
To leverage human lives on this bullshittary is beyond cruel.
To more sublime matters. The lucky recipients of calls from hundreds of pumped up Ethiopians supporting HR 4423 (and some irate ones requesting its defeat) are…
Friday, December 9
Congressman Mark Green: (202) 225-5665
Congresswoman Betty McCollum: (202) 225-6631
Hopefully their interns have had their protein shakes today.
posted by ET Wonqette at Friday, December 09, 2005
3 Comments:
It's my turn! It's my turn! Richard, tell him it's my turn.
Behold, our countries' representatives! Shameful chumps who are screwing our people. I'm livid.
It wasn't as bad as the one where Meles himself called to defend po' old kassafoon, but let's just hope it's just PR... get another khadafi have'em shake hands, spray a lil' dough so that everyone, including Annan, can take a victory lap in the international corridors.
oh oh oh. i see your "ugh" in triplicate and raise you a "oh my GOD!" we need a "new generation" of african leaders knighted!
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