Bush calls Castro an endorser of child prostitution; Castro calls Bush a drunk
This article has been my greatest source of amusement this morning.

Essentially, Bush had charged in a speech that Castro endorses child prostitution to help bolster Cuba's failing economy. Here is what he says: "The dictator welcomes sex tourism. Here's how he bragged about the industry. This is his quote -- 'Cuba has the cleanest and most educated prostitutes in the world' and 'sex tourism is a vital source of hard currency."

Well, in fact, that was not his quote. Apparantly, Bush was misquoting a 1992 interview with Castro in a Dartmouth undergraduate newspaper that was more to the tune of this exact quote: "There are prostitutes, but prostitution is not allowed in our country. There are no women forced to sell themselves to a man, to a foreigner, to a tourist."

Quite different, no? Castro, obviously outraged, used live television last night--the 51st anniversary of the opening attack of the Cuban Revolution--to dismiss the charges and levy his own against Bush. From the MSNBC article:

The answer, said Castro, comes from inside the mind of the president —the subtitle to a book by psychoanalyst Dr. Justin Frank, called “Bush on the Couch.”

Castro quoted Frank, who delves into Bush’s professed bout with alcoholism and argues that his history of untreated alcohol abuse could impair his judgment.

Bush, charged Castro, could be having a difficult time “distinguishing between relevant and inconsequential information.”

Zing!
- posted by frank crist @ 12:03 PM