Evil Dictator Awards
On the lighter side of things…
I guess Darfur activists weren’t the only ones following Omar Al-Bashir’s media tour across Darfur. This past Wednesday, Lewis Black (of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) in honor of the Beijing Olympics, hosted the Evil Dictator Awards.
In Black’s words,
The silver medal goes to Omar Al-Bashir, the leader of Sudan. You must’ve heard of him… you know those atrocities in Darfur that we’ve all been trying to ignore… that was him.
Bashir at some point in your life you need to make a choice – genocidal maniac or a dancer – you can’t be both.
Robert Mugabe got the gold medal.
Mugabe proved he still has his despotic jobs by recently winning an election that he lost and making everyone in Zimbabwe a billionare… A trillion dollars for baked beans. I didn’t know they had Whole Foods in Zimbabwe.
But remember this, as far as human rights violations go – they are all winners.
… my sentiments exactly.
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