Mexican President Fox Expresses Regret for "Racial" Comment--But Only to Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton
This is one news story that seems too weird to be true. It sounds like something written up by National Lampoon, Saturday Night Live or Mad Magazine. It could have been a punch line for one of Jay Leno's or David Letterman monologue jokes. The story reads something like this:
Mexican President Vicente Fox expressed regret today for his recent comments.
Late last week, while attempting to justify, endorse and encourage the continuing flow of illegal Mexican immigrants into the United States, President Fox had said, "They are taking the sort of jobs that even American Blacks won't take."
Earlier today, President Fox was told (by a terrified Presidential Palace janitor who was forced into the assignment by the Cabinet Secretary of the Mexican Mafia) that his comment may have offended several people in the country located just south of Canada, the one that used to belong to Mexico.
Fox, to his credit, immediately took matters into his own hands in order to set things right. He personally phoned the only two American Blacks he has ever met or heard of, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. It is suspected that, with the first call, he accidently confused Jesse Jackson with US Secretary of State Condolezza Rice, who had been away on a trip to Iraq this past weekend.
Thinking, I suppose, that the Mexican President had actually intended to phone him, Jesse Jackson jumped at the opportunity to pretend to be somebody by inviting himself over to the Mexican President's house for dinner sometime soon. The President, confused and having second thoughts about the phone call, accepted what he thought was Jackson's invitation for him (Fox) to come and visit the United States. It was only after he had hung up that he realized that Jackson had tricked him into inviting Jackson to Mexico instead.
More confused than ever, President Fox made another phone call; this time to Al Sharpton, who he had gotten mixed up with former US Secretary of State Colin Powell ("You know how they all look alike," he said to an aide afterwards). Thinking that he would ask Powell for some advice as to how he could tactfully get out of the Jesse Jackson invitation he was, instead, surprised to find the man on the other end of the phone asking for a "small donation" to his "inner-city religious program for the support of failed, former Black pastors with the initials "A. L." In return, he promised to straighten everything out for him and assure every legitimate Black American (meaning those who voted for Al Gore) that President Fox was a nice guy and really didn't mean to imply that Blacks were almost as pathetically inferior as the citizens of his own country.
Both Jackson and Sharpton immediately took advantage of the phone calls to let every media outlet in the nation know that, when it came to US Foreign Policy matters, they were still the "go-to" guys that everybody trusted, including Hamas, Baathist Party members, Fidel Castro and France.
Meanwhile, on her flight back to the US from Iraq, a reporter asked Secretary Rice what she thought about the incident involving President Fox. Rice, according to witnesses, responded by saying, "Who?"
Mexican President Vicente Fox expressed regret today for his recent comments.
Late last week, while attempting to justify, endorse and encourage the continuing flow of illegal Mexican immigrants into the United States, President Fox had said, "They are taking the sort of jobs that even American Blacks won't take."
Earlier today, President Fox was told (by a terrified Presidential Palace janitor who was forced into the assignment by the Cabinet Secretary of the Mexican Mafia) that his comment may have offended several people in the country located just south of Canada, the one that used to belong to Mexico.
Fox, to his credit, immediately took matters into his own hands in order to set things right. He personally phoned the only two American Blacks he has ever met or heard of, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. It is suspected that, with the first call, he accidently confused Jesse Jackson with US Secretary of State Condolezza Rice, who had been away on a trip to Iraq this past weekend.
Thinking, I suppose, that the Mexican President had actually intended to phone him, Jesse Jackson jumped at the opportunity to pretend to be somebody by inviting himself over to the Mexican President's house for dinner sometime soon. The President, confused and having second thoughts about the phone call, accepted what he thought was Jackson's invitation for him (Fox) to come and visit the United States. It was only after he had hung up that he realized that Jackson had tricked him into inviting Jackson to Mexico instead.
More confused than ever, President Fox made another phone call; this time to Al Sharpton, who he had gotten mixed up with former US Secretary of State Colin Powell ("You know how they all look alike," he said to an aide afterwards). Thinking that he would ask Powell for some advice as to how he could tactfully get out of the Jesse Jackson invitation he was, instead, surprised to find the man on the other end of the phone asking for a "small donation" to his "inner-city religious program for the support of failed, former Black pastors with the initials "A. L." In return, he promised to straighten everything out for him and assure every legitimate Black American (meaning those who voted for Al Gore) that President Fox was a nice guy and really didn't mean to imply that Blacks were almost as pathetically inferior as the citizens of his own country.
Both Jackson and Sharpton immediately took advantage of the phone calls to let every media outlet in the nation know that, when it came to US Foreign Policy matters, they were still the "go-to" guys that everybody trusted, including Hamas, Baathist Party members, Fidel Castro and France.
Meanwhile, on her flight back to the US from Iraq, a reporter asked Secretary Rice what she thought about the incident involving President Fox. Rice, according to witnesses, responded by saying, "Who?"
posted by Bird of Paradise at 4:18 PM
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