Re: John Cleese (and imperialist humour)

["James Daly" <james.irldaly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From Arundhati Roy's "Buy One, Get One Free".

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At a Pentagon briefing during the days of looting, Secretary Rumsfeld,
Prince of Darkness, turned on his media cohorts who had served him so
loyally through the war. "The images you are seeing on television, you
are seeing over and over and over, and it's the same picture, of some
person walking out of some building with a vase, and you see it twenty
times and you say, 'My god, were there that many vases? Is it possible
that there were that many vases in the whole country?'"

Laughter rippled through the press room. Would it be alright for the
poor of Harlem to loot the Metropolitan Museum? Would it be greeted
with similar mirth?

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Do I hear someone say "Lighten up, Arundhati!"...?
I rest my case.
JD

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