Even better than a Che Guevara T-shirt. (Rachel Lucas)

Even better than a Che Guevara T-shirt.

In case you don't live on Drudge and don't already know this, check out what Cameron Diaz did. She's touring around Peru, looking at the Machu Pichhu ruins, wearing a totebag with a red Chinese star and the Mao Zedong's most famous slogan, "Serve the People."

Nice job, asshat! Very nice work there, managing to somehow not have a fucking clue. THIS is why you should be required to have a higher education if you're going to be famous. First of all, it's not cute to glamorize the goddamn red commie Chinese star. It's neither ironic, interesting, piquant, progressive, nor profound. Remember dear, communism is responsible for over a hundred million deaths in the last century, and Mao Zedong was in charge of about half of those. So frankly, the whole idea of a commie star and a Maoist phrase is fucked up in ANY circumstance.

But in Peru? PERU?!?! Absolutely brilliant. They're not gonna be sensitive about Maoist propaganda or anything, it's not like 70,000 people died.

I always knew Cameron Diaz was a fuckin' moron. A few years ago, I saw her on Oprah and she was yapping about her recent trip to Africa. I hate Oprah but I kinda would have loved her if she'd punched Diaz in the mouth that day. She was literally saying things such as, "It was SO awesome. We were out in the middle of nowhere and it was SO quiet, like, totally quiet. And like, I realized, like, people LIVE here. They do not HAVE the things we, like, have. It like totally makes all my problems seem so, like, NOT problems, ya know? Ya know? HA HA HA HA! Like, I was just so grateful for my, like, LIFE." Wow, like ohmygod, she is so Socially Aware.

Hey I have an idea for her next trip to, say, Eastern Europe. She should tour Poland carrying a tote bag with the words "Arbeit Macht Frei" under a cute little swastika. It would be, like, totally fashionable.

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Comments (19)

Caltechgirl

and she's Cuban. You'd think she'd understand about communism in general....

Posted by Caltechgirl | June 24, 2007 3:51 PM

Posted on June 24, 2007 15:51

Adrian

higher education? asshats like her glamorize commies cuz they don't know better, university professors do know better and *still* do it!

Posted by Adrian | June 24, 2007 4:41 PM

Posted on June 24, 2007 16:41

bobs1066

For people with the attention span of a may-fly, the whole Shining Path business is as remote as Kaiser Bill. Rant, fume, mutter...

Posted by bobs1066 | June 24, 2007 5:06 PM

Posted on June 24, 2007 17:06

evvybuns

And she probably won't even get what the fuss is about, even if her handlers or body guards or personal assistants clue her in on the gaffe. It's the same mentality of those who wear Che Guevara tee shirts.

The scary thing would be if she even tries to speak intelligently on the subject. The thought makes me cringe.

Posted by evvybuns | June 24, 2007 5:51 PM

Posted on June 24, 2007 17:51

laughykate

Maybe she got accessory advice from Paris's people ? Or did she fire them?

Posted by laughykate | June 24, 2007 6:52 PM

Posted on June 24, 2007 18:52

Brian_Thorn

I am gonna guess Cameron's take on the "Arbeit Macht Frei" handbag is gonna go kinda like this:

"Swatzstickerz thats fer (cuz we don't say fur, fur is bad) like them Notzeez idn't it? They were like um, bad peeps, not um like the Commie Red Chinese fer sure. I mean what German place can I like order dumplings from 24/7..duh??? I mean amirite? Fer sure!"

Rachel, you have to cut the girl a lil slack. She has eaten her surfboard and broken her nose so many times by now there has to be some modicum of brain damage present. At least she has a somewhat legitmate excuse for her stupidity. I just chalk her up as belonging in the same category as many other starlets; "Pretty to look at till they open their pieholes". Jane Fonda is and always will be the reigning Queen of that particular category.

I mean at least Cameron is somewhat pretty (in a goofy kind of way), not like that Sarah Jessica Barker. I mean yikes, who did she sleep with to get famous with that trumpet between her eyes? I still haven't figured that one out.

Have fun ;)!

Posted by Brian_Thorn | June 24, 2007 7:16 PM

Posted on June 24, 2007 19:16

she_said

Crazy as it sounds.. it's still better than Ashley Judd acts:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1665919/posts

And don't tag me because of the freerepublic site.. it's the only copy of the story I could find.

Posted by she_said | June 24, 2007 7:18 PM

Posted on June 24, 2007 19:18

forgetfulmuse

"If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao,
You ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow..."

Well, except Justin Timberlake (or am I way out of the loop on this one? I hope so).

Posted by forgetfulmuse | June 24, 2007 8:57 PM

Posted on June 24, 2007 20:57

Blake Hitchcock

Yay! Rachel is calling out celebrities again! I hope to see lots more of this :)

Posted by Blake Hitchcock | June 24, 2007 11:45 PM

Posted on June 24, 2007 23:45

Lance de Boyle

Imagine a Japanese fellow sporting a briefcase that reads....

"Pearl Harbor! Whatta hoot for us. Too bad for you, Yankees. Ha!"

He's walking down Mainstreet U.S.A.

By the time he gets to the street corner, that briefcase is lodged in his colon and he's spitting teeth through broken jaws.

So how come an idiot like Moron Diaz isn't smacked upside her empty melon-shaped head by the natives?

They run out of shovels?

They star-struck?

Are her "assistants"---Scotty, Justin, and Jorge---decked out in Birkies and purple scarves---real scary to the campesinos?

It ought to be perfectly clear by now that the average IQ of leftist "entertainers" (Rosie O'Blowme, Shawn Pinhead) is at least 15 points below that of conservative entertainers---Bruce Willis, Dennis Miller, Ron Silver.

Posted by Lance de Boyle | June 25, 2007 12:49 AM

Posted on June 25, 2007 00:49

Hardliner

For once I agree with ya. :)

Posted by Hardliner | June 25, 2007 12:51 AM

Posted on June 25, 2007 00:51

sarahk

She's somewhat pretty?

Huh.

Posted by sarahk | June 25, 2007 8:48 AM

Posted on June 25, 2007 08:48

Sigivald

I'd totally carry a bag with a red star on it (though not there).

But I'd do it to mock Communism's defeat by Capitalist Democracy.

(Just like my ridiculous Soviet Lenin pin! Like someone on Samizdata said; they don't have to be idols, they can be trophies, like heads on pikes.)

Posted by Sigivald | June 25, 2007 12:48 PM

Posted on June 25, 2007 12:48

Chris Hunt

The locals' take on these things tends to be a lot more humorous. My ex brought me back a T-shirt from Moscow with Lenin's melon on it, with the McDonald's arches superimposed on him. The slogan on the back was "The Party's over!"

I wish I still fit into it.

Posted by Chris Hunt | June 25, 2007 3:28 PM

Posted on June 25, 2007 15:28

CastoCreations

Lance...that's funny!

I'm actually reading a great book about Che ... and have started another one about Mao. It just boggles my mind that people are so dumb. They really are useful idiots.

Why do they believe that these monsters are any better or more socially acceptable than walking around with a Swastika or Hitler on a shirt? *sigh* So braindead.

And schools don't help matters since they don't teach any history except that which makes the US look bad.

Posted by CastoCreations | June 25, 2007 5:40 PM

Posted on June 25, 2007 17:40

Ralph Gizzip

Face it, people, you just can't fix stupid.

Posted by Ralph Gizzip | June 25, 2007 6:27 PM

Posted on June 25, 2007 18:27

mightysamurai

Lance de Boyle

I'm told (meaning, I'm not sure if this is true or not) that Japanese tourists who vacation in Hawaii like to take smiling photographs in front of the Pearl Harbor memorial.

Posted by mightysamurai | June 25, 2007 10:02 PM

Posted on June 25, 2007 22:02

Brian_Thorn

I am gonna confess I have no clue who Che Cerveza is (I still don't and funny thing is, I still don't care either), but I have seen the T-Shirt many times. I just always figured it was a picture of a young Fidel Castro, and even then I never got what the appeal of him a T-Shirt would be. I mean he is no Jerry Garcia. Quite frankly I still don't get it, but then I don't see what the appeal of "Crocs" are either, for that matter.

I mean let's be honest, it was Gorby (No I can't spell his proper name, and don't care to look it up) with that wine stained cranium of his, who made it hip to celebrate Communism. Forget about all those other posers. They are just Gorby wannabe's. But didn't that party like end a decade ago? I seem to recall reading something about a wall coming down and statues being toppled a while back. I could be mistaken of course, because let's face it, I just can't be bothered to check.

Have fun ;)!

Posted by Brian_Thorn | June 25, 2007 10:42 PM

Posted on June 25, 2007 22:42

retrocop

Che CERVESA? Brian that is too good. I will have to have one (a cervesa, that is) in honor of that little play on words. Maybe after Fidel is dead and gone all these clueless yahoos will take to wearing his likeness on t-shirts as well. Ought to be real popular in areas like "Little Havana" in Miami.

Posted by retrocop | June 27, 2007 7:54 AM

Posted on June 27, 2007 07:54