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Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Oh the humanity

More foot-in-mouth disease from one of our own. From the Washington Post:

Never known for his tact, England's shadow Higher Education Minister Boris Johnson was forced to apologize for characterizing inhabitants of Papua New Guinea as cannibals. The mop-topped Tory, who seems to put his feet in his mouth more frequently than a flexible fetishist, compared the Labour Party's recent abandonment of Prime Minister Tony Blair to "Papua New Guinea-style orgies of cannibalism and chief-killing."

His comments, which appeared in The Daily Telegraph, have stirred up a diplomatic incident, with Jean L Kekedo, the South Pacific island's High Commissioner, demanding an apology. Despite issuing said public mea culpa, Johnson has since defended his politically incorrect comparison by saying: "My remarks were inspired by a Time Life book I have which does indeed show relatively recent photos of Papua New Guinean tribes engaged in warfare, and I'm fairly certain that cannibalism was involved." The practice of eating human flesh on Papua New Guinea is believed to have been stamped out 200 years ago--some 35 years before the first daguerreotype.
Still, Mr. Johnson has long demonstrated a preference for outrageous over accurate, recently telling Brits that a vote for his party "will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3."

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