[Grovenet] Evo Morales

[Katie Allnutt]

Mike,
    I think he knew full well he was on a comedy show.  His last line  
on the clip after talking about the distinction between countries  
that send troops to save lives and countries that send troops to kill  
others he said, " Oh and please don't label me as the axis of evil".   
Everybody cracked up and you could hear the audience roar.

Katie

On Sep 27, 2007, at 12:05 PM, Steele, Mike wrote:

> G-Nuts...there was a poignant moment last night, rare enough on  
> American
> TV, when Jon Stewart interviewed, via a translator, the president of
> Bolivia, Evo Morales on The Daily Show.  Morales comes from the Aymara
> tribe of indigenous people and is probably the first indigenous person
> to lead a S. American country since the Spanish conquest.
>
> I think Morales was a little baffled at first (and who knows what gets
> lost in translation?) as he was facing a comedian...but he showed  
> great
> dignity, a soft-spoken firmness, a deep concern for the  
> underprivileged,
> and a total commitment to what he called The Millennium for Life.  It
> was such a powerful moment.  If you missed the interview, here is a  
> link
> to it...Geri says it'll be the 9th one down or so in "Most Recent
> Videos."  The title is "President Evo Morales."
>
> The link:  http://tinyurl.com/abcxj
>
> What's missing is the blustering, the swaggering, the snickering, the
> hubris, the thoughtlessness of "our leader."
>
> --Mike
>
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