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Yankee Dears, Go Home

It's a line, based on mistranslation, from Whit Stillman's Barcelona (also germane tagline: "Americans. Anti-Americans. In Love."), though I think the term applies to the truly bizarre spectacle of seeing President Bush getting chummy with Lula, the Marxisant president of Brazil, who was just re-elected to office without all the viva la revolucion fanfare of someone else we might name…

Guess how Hugo whiled away his time while the White Devil shook hands with a comrade across the continent, which must have been the political equivalent of being uninvited to dinner between your girlfriend and her visiting ex? The Times does a little research about the Venezuelan autocrat's bedfellows:

The stadium rally with Mr. Chávez was sponsored by union groups with ties to the Peronist government in Argentina, and a faction of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a human rights group led by Hebe de Bonafini.(She has expressed satisfaction at the Sept. 11 attacks, saying that Americans deserved a taste of their own medicine, and has also recently made anti-Semitic remarks.)

Now, you really do have to love this scene. A moon-faced "socialist" with an almshouse political economy rallies against the environmentalist-friendly energy reforms being advocated by George W. Bush. He enlists someone whose first name is Hebe but with less than Hebraiotrophic tendencies and a fondness for Al Qaeda to co-sponsor the gig; ditto the Peronist government in Argentina, which, last I checked, is rooted in the first "third way" ideology whose founder offered safe haven to Nazis before and after being cuckolded by Che Guevara.

Brecht couldn't have fashioned anything sillier.

Bush and Chavez Spar at Distance Over Latin Visit – New York Times

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