How dare you call me rich!

March 18, 2005
Friday

How dare you call me rich!

Brian Micklethwait (London) North American affairs

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Instapundit has already just linked to it, and to other responses to the same story, and copied and pasted the first two paragraphs. It being a CNN report about how Forbes has included Fidel Castro in its list of the world's richest people, and about how Fidel Castro is not amused. This story will soon be everywhere, but I do not care. Count me in, if only as one delighted heckler among millions.

Funny as those first two paragraphs are, I think this sentence is my particular favourite:

Castro, 78, and in power since a 1959 revolution, said he was considering suing.

I cannot believe he really said that, but in the event that he did... you go grandad.

This reminds me of Danny de Vito's line in Mars Attacks, where he says (if memory serves), to the invading Martians, something like: "You want to take over the world. You're gonna need lawyers, right?"

Not that Fidel is trying to take over the world any more. It is just the idea of a hitherto unreconstructed Marxist-Leninist trying to protect what's left of his revolutionary reputation by calling in the lawyers.

It is, alas, far too much to hope that he will really do it.

Comments

Are any of Fidel's serfs named on the Forbes list?

Posted by John J. Coupal at March 18, 2005 04:56 PM

His first problem would be picking a venue.

Posted by Steven Den Beste at March 18, 2005 06:01 PM

Where does Castro's coke baron brother Raul come in the Forbes list?

Posted by paul d s at March 18, 2005 06:03 PM

The world's richest commie, I would assume.

What has communism come to?

Tsk. Tsk.

Posted by jomama at March 18, 2005 09:46 PM

Che is surely rolling in his grave, either with shame or envy.

Posted by Alisa at March 18, 2005 11:40 PM

Rich commie bosses is nuttin new. (Though it's an eternal surprise to some.) Tito owned an entire island and several yachts.

Posted by Natalie Solent at March 19, 2005 01:58 AM

Tito owned an entire island and several yachts.

But he never managed to achieve the success of his brother, Michael.

Rich

Posted by Richard Thomas at March 19, 2005 05:15 PM

If Castro needs a Commie lawyer, all he needs is the ACLU's phone number, which he no doubt has already.

Posted by Kim du Toit at March 21, 2005 04:43 PM

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