'Red' Ken does it again!

[Don Corleone]

I must give our cousins across the pond due credit. You're doing remarkably well with such a 'scandal'.

If Ray Nagin (the bonehead from New Orleans who decided 2000 busses weren't needed) were in Red Ken's shoes, we'd be apopletic over here. The right would be screaming for his head on a stake for treason, and the left would be falling over themselves defending him. The fact that you all can give each other the business, but in a friendly way, speaks very highly of you.

Have you ever noticed how Idaho lays low when these discussions of how wretched the honorable Lord Mayor truly is come to the surface?

As an aside, I strongly suspect your man Ken is holed up at the Grand Hyatt (about 2 blocks from Tianamen and a very swank hotel) and the Party has seen to it several rather attactive young ladies have joined him for evening cocktail parties in the bar. Such public statements are one way to ensure the 'tea-parties' continue.... The nationalistic Chinese (and actually, I've found most aren't) love hearing two things out of Westerners 1) we have misjudged them and maybe human rights aren't so bad 2) we could stand to learn a thing or two from their models of capitalsim. I can stomach the latter, as there's more than a little truth there. Being as he's "Red" Ken, I imagine he couldn't bring himself to that and had to focus on the former.