Thursday, January 28, 2010

Mexico's Most Despicable Politician*

This story refers to the recent comments about Haiti of Ariel Gómez León, a PRD federal deputy who moonlights as a radio talk show host:
"In the media, like on the television we see the faces of the people when the assistance is handed out, they are not faces of necessity, but of insatiable abusers," commented the legislator on his entertainment program "Happy" on the Digital Radio Group, of the magnate Simón Valanci.

Quoted by a newspaper with state circulation, Gómez León also that "because they're all black and they look so much like, we should have marked them with indelible ink so that the aid isn't doubled up; the ink would have to be white because what the Federal Electoral Institute uses wouldn't show up because they are so black."
Words fail me. Evidently, Gómez León was unhappy because one of the deputies' paychecks was reduced in order to help pay for the assistance to Haiti.

*For today, anyway.

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