Journal pudge's Journal: Bill Delahunt Sticks His Foot In It 1
This is just funny. Last week Congressman Bill Delahunt -- whose 10th Congressional District in Massachusetts now covers where I grew up -- was on NewsHour talking about Honduras with his colleague, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
He described Honduras as a "banana republic" (which is a stupid claim, but not the funny part) and she took offense, as one would. She says, "I think that's an insult to the people of Honduras." And he replies, "Then I dare say that you don't -- you're not that familiar with Latin America."
Bill, Ros-Lehtinen was born in Cuba, and her whole life has been active in Cuban political issues. Saying she is not that familiar with Latin America is like saying you're not that familiar with pasty white Irish Catholics.
Cross-posted on <pudge/*>.
Chavez lackey? (Score:2)
Isn't this one of the New England schmucks that sucked up to Hugo Chavez for the "heating oil to America's poor" PR bit?