Ah, what's gossip without sexual interest? The story of Ahmadinejad's hotel and entourage didn't really merit Page Six since it said nothing about who slept in his bed. :->
On 5/13/06, Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> wrote:
> If Pres. Ahmadinejad came to the U.S. and found a relatively inexpensive
> hotel in Harlem (are there any left?) they would complain that he is a
> demagogue meddling in U.S. racial politics. If he stayed in a slum in
> Indonesia the Jakarta rulers (is Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono still prez there?)
> would scream with fear and anger. They would accuse him of encouraging
> terrorists. When was the last time someone complained that a U.S. president
> travels with a huge entourage and spends millions of dollars at hotels?
>
> When a future Isaiah or Savonarola comes along he will hold up Page Six of
> the New York Post as the finest exemplar of hypocrisy. I am not advocating
> a Bonfire of Vapidities. Gossip is the only thing that the Post actually
> does well. And I like the fact that someone decided to use their gossip
> columns as a blackmail racket. In the U.S. gossip is politics by other
> means and the fact that the gossip mongers of the NY Post are pay attention
> to the personal preferences of Ahmadinejad must mean that somebody is
> actually worried about him.
>
> Yoshie, I really think you should make that phone call to Fidel.
What I would really like to know is how loyal his "entourage of 100, including 40 bodyguards" are to Ahmadinejad. Washington will certainly try to oust him or have him killed, and he has plenty of local enemies. Fidel and Chavez need to give Ahmadinejad survival tips, too, in adition to tips on how best to offer solidarity with Palestinians, how to organize counter-hegemonic diaspora identity politics, and other subjects of importance. Otherwise, he may not survive till his next birthday.
-- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>