A pitbull with lipstick couldn't have said it better herself
So I'm happily buried in the dense pages of Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies, when I arrive at this jewel,
"Jesus Christ is Free Trade and Free Trade is Jesus Christ."
A few paragraphs prior, the same rabid entrepreneur proclaims, "The war, when it comes, will not be for opium. It will be for a principle: for freedom - for the freedom of trade and for the freedom of the Chinese people. Free Trade is a right conferred on Man by God, and its principles apply as much to opium as to any other article of trade."
Now, SNL's Tina Fey has got Palin's mannerisms down to a frightening tee, but Ghosh... Ghosh has inadvertently scanned her brain and offered up its confused, disingenuous rhetoric in the form of a British slave-trader in a (brilliant) novel.
"Jesus Christ is Free Trade and Free Trade is Jesus Christ."
A few paragraphs prior, the same rabid entrepreneur proclaims, "The war, when it comes, will not be for opium. It will be for a principle: for freedom - for the freedom of trade and for the freedom of the Chinese people. Free Trade is a right conferred on Man by God, and its principles apply as much to opium as to any other article of trade."
Now, SNL's Tina Fey has got Palin's mannerisms down to a frightening tee, but Ghosh... Ghosh has inadvertently scanned her brain and offered up its confused, disingenuous rhetoric in the form of a British slave-trader in a (brilliant) novel.
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