Celebrity moron totes trendy Maoist handbag in Peru, home of the Shining Path
posted at 10:47 pm on June 22, 2007 by Allahpundit
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A perfect storm of ignorance, arrogance, and mindlessly revisionist radical chic touches down in Machu Picchu.
Actress Cameron Diaz appears to have committed a major fashion faux pas in Peru. The voice of Princess Fiona in the animated “Shrek” films may have inadvertently offended Peruvians who suffered decades of violence from a Maoist guerrilla insurgency by touring here Friday with a bag emblazoned with one of Mao Zedong’s favorite political slogans.
While explored the Inca city of Machu Picchu high in Peru’s Andes, Diaz wore over her shoulder an olive green messenger bag emblazoned with a red star and the words “Serve the People” printed in Chinese on the flap, perhaps Chinese Communist leader Mao’s most famous political slogan.
While the bags are marketed as trendy fashion accessories in some world capitals, the phrase has particular resonance in Peru, where the Maoist Shining Path insurgency brought Peru to edge of chaos in the 1980s and early 1990s with a campaign of massacres, assassinations and bombings.
Nearly 70,000 people were killed during the insurgency.
Not for a moment do I think she knew who the Shining Path was. Your exit question: Now that she knows, and in light of what she’s said before about the pastoral idyll that is Third World poverty, does she care?
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are we sure that was accidental considering how much celebrities love commies?
Defector01 on June 22, 2007 at 10:49 PM
No. She’s a moron.
Martin on June 22, 2007 at 10:49 PM
Making the broad assumption that she actually has a brain, she wouldn’t care what the bag says or represents as long as it looks cool and costs much more than it is worth.
DAT60A3 on June 22, 2007 at 10:51 PM
She will need help with the spin and explanation, but as for a learning experience, she is as vapid as they come, she will not gain one iota of knowledge from this IMHO.
bbz123 on June 22, 2007 at 10:51 PM
She is perhaps the biggest moron in Los Angeles County which puts her in the running for biggest moron worldwide.
Metro on June 22, 2007 at 10:52 PM
I’m pretty sure when she bought it, she asked someone “What do these characters mean?” and they replied “Serve the People.” Being the celebrity retard that she is (Hollywood has that effect on the brain), she undoubtedly thought the message to be profound and by wearing it proudly, she could make a subtle social statement. This, you see, is how actors think. I know this because my best friend in the whole world is an actor in remission.
Mindcrime on June 22, 2007 at 10:53 PM
It’s a tough call: Celebrities do love commies, yet to do so requires a certain amount – not much, but a certain amount – of brain cell activity which in this case may be lacking.
Regardless, it is amazing how the left gets all fired up over any politically incorrect symbolism yet they are so callous about the sufferiung under leftist ideology.
Coyote D. on June 22, 2007 at 10:56 PM
I’ll bet she paid a ridicules amount of money for that bag, do you really think she would let some low life 3rd world Peruvian persons feelings get in the way of her right to display her “style.”
abinitioadinfinitum on June 22, 2007 at 11:01 PM
You can bet Cameron Diaz lives in her own little tray sheek world that doesn’t require too much in the way of discernibility or genuine empathy.
Speakup on June 22, 2007 at 11:06 PM
See, I always knew it wasn’t going to work out between me and Cameron.
see-dubya on June 22, 2007 at 11:10 PM
I’m willing to bet she has no idea that Mao was a mass murderer, or has even heard of The Shining Path (and if she has, has any idea they ever did anything wrong). And if she were to ever hear of these facts, she likely wouldn’t believe them.
In addition to being as smart as a shoe, she’s thoroughly immersed in the sickest aspect of the Michael Moore-induced utopian mindset: She genuinely believes all things good and equitable emerge from Marxism, while all that’s bad is born of America and the free market. It’s more like a cult mentality than a genuine political perspective.
Blacklake on June 22, 2007 at 11:10 PM
A PR flack will release a statement with a generic “sorry if anyone was offended…Cameron deeply cares about…yada, yada, yada.”
Maybe next trip she could go to Poland with a “Work Will Make You Free” scarf.
major john on June 22, 2007 at 11:12 PM
Sorry to hear that, see-dubya. :(
major john on June 22, 2007 at 11:13 PM
Ignorant B–ch.
Going there next Winter and am FULLY aware of the history of the country.
Perhaps these USEFULL IDIOTS could be given a SHORT history lesson by their “hosts” before they pimp them out for their celebrity? On the other hand, nahhhhhh..too entertaining when they do something this stupid.
labwrs on June 22, 2007 at 11:13 PM
Meanwhile, not far away, Mao 2.0.
see-dubya on June 22, 2007 at 11:13 PM
Is it really a “fasion Faux pas” when so many celebrities have embraced Communism as the perfect government for the world?
Mao and Che are trendier than ever today. The hammer and sickle is probably a top ten selling t-shirt symbol. [url=http://www.thechestore.com/proddetail.php?prod=T65&cat=2]For only $50[/url] I could buy the “Che Club Shirt – Checked With Che And Che Signature.” That’s a bargain!
But seriously, go talk to some of today’s celebs. I’ve certainly had audiences with enough movers and shakers in Hollywood to know the common ideologies running through their tiny tiny brains.
This is no faux pas, she believes in her handbag!
Vincenzo on June 22, 2007 at 11:15 PM
Hey! look what I found!
The “Serve the People” Handbag for only 11 bucks!
Vincenzo on June 22, 2007 at 11:18 PM
Heh, Maddox dealt with this years ago. Obviously its Maddox, so consider that your Official Language Warning.
Bad Candy on June 22, 2007 at 11:23 PM
There might have been something about Mary but there sure aint nothing smart about Cameron. Thats as stupid as gettin your nut sack mangled in a freak zipper accident.
sonnyspats1 on June 22, 2007 at 11:27 PM
see-dubya,it’s a shame you couldn’t work it out. You must hate to lose out on this.
billy on June 22, 2007 at 11:30 PM
I remember going to one of the big anti-war marches here in Washington, DC and watching all the Communist groups march by toting their banners while the Freeper counter-protestors chanted anti-communist slogans from a park. One of the marchers, a young college kid, stopped. With this truly puzzled and earnest look on his face, he asked almost painfully, “What’s wrong with Communism?” I felt sorry for him because he honestly had no idea. I had to wonder if he had grown up in an airtight chamber somewhere. There really are people out there who have never heard a negative word about Communism, the killer of a hundred million people.
Tantor on June 22, 2007 at 11:35 PM
From reading the post you linked, I kind of get the impression that this guy Maddox doesn’t care to much for Cameron D. He Heh ;:- P
abinitioadinfinitum on June 22, 2007 at 11:42 PM
Yeah Tantor, a lot of kids hear about how rotten Hitler was, no one hears about Stalin and Mao, or at least not enough. Of course, that’s true of all history taught in schools, there are so many things that are skipped or not covered enough. They focus on a few events, taught from the same perspective, year after year. There is a reason that kids have low interest in history, they are taught history in the most stale/repetitive manner and it deadens them to it.
Glad I decided not to teach, it would have been too depressing.
Bad Candy on June 22, 2007 at 11:47 PM
Maddox is an internet legend, is this the first time you’ve seen him, infinitum?
Oh, and thanks for visiting muh blahg!
Bad Candy on June 22, 2007 at 11:49 PM
If Ms. Diaz ever has two brain cells firing off simultaneously, her hair will catch on fire.
MCPO Airdale on June 22, 2007 at 11:54 PM
Yeah, first time. I feel like I’m in the dark at times.
Your Blog, well you do have a way with words! Heh
abinitioadinfinitum on June 22, 2007 at 11:54 PM
Worse than just not knowing how this might be interpreted by Peruvians… does she not know that Mao was the mass murderer that Hitler could have only dreamed of being… I think the last revision put Mao’s numbers at 77 Million killed.
Bonus: I’d like to ask this Gore adoring twit how she got to Peru… Did she ride a bike? No. You know how she got there.
RightWinged on June 23, 2007 at 12:01 AM
Cameron Diaz would probably say “Let them eat cake.” Ya, I imagine she is clueless (hopefully), but she does even more revolting stuff in her home country.
Remember, only the rich can own luxury vehicles, the peasents have to conserve energy.
Rode Werk on June 23, 2007 at 12:02 AM
Hey, I’m an Ace of Spades spinoff moronblogger, casual use of foul language is par for the course.
Bad Candy on June 23, 2007 at 12:03 AM
But she used the older model Learjet! Its a little smaller and uses a bit less fuel, and she bought
indulgencescarbon credits! Be fair, RW!Bad Candy on June 23, 2007 at 12:06 AM
Wow, I didn’t know Hillary smoked.
see-dubya on June 23, 2007 at 12:25 AM
BC–I know you by another name elsewhere, right? I just realized that.
see-dubya on June 23, 2007 at 12:33 AM
Ah but Tantor – they don’t teach history in schools anymore. So while you might hear a thing or two about Hitler (who they teach was ultra-conservative) you don’t hear a thing about the 16 million plus killed by stalin, pol-pot, Mao, and the others – a number Hitler would have envied.
CrazyFool on June 23, 2007 at 12:36 AM
blockquote>Cameron Diaz and a rotating crew of “her close, personal friends [who] think globally and act globally.”
How about “act locally”, like when in Rome, do as…?
see-dubya, Chavez yearns for how well those collectivist communist cooperatives used to work all over the world, and still do in Cuba and Myanmar.
Lech Walesa calls Chavez a demagogue. For entertainment on this topic peruse this.
Entelechy on June 23, 2007 at 12:37 AM
If she ever talks about it, it will come out that the Sendero Luminoso was America’s fault.
eeyore on June 23, 2007 at 12:38 AM
Bubble-headed bleach blonde casting couch experts only care about orphans, puppys, kittens… and designer fashions. EVERYTHING else is simply just “uh-huh, oh my, hmmm … did you see that new communist tote bag at Saks? It’s sooo dreamy!”
SilverStar830 on June 23, 2007 at 12:50 AM
Cretin. End of story.
SouthernDem on June 23, 2007 at 12:53 AM
Or as she might call it, Sendero Fabuloso!
see-dubya on June 23, 2007 at 1:05 AM
Stupid c*nt.
infidel4life on June 23, 2007 at 1:22 AM
Oh how tres Che-chic.
Cameron is like, soooo trendy!
Like, OMG, she, like, totally makes statements!
OMG you go girl!
Drive a Prius everyone!!
Free Nelson Mandela!!
Montana on June 23, 2007 at 2:49 AM
Does anyone remember Carmen Diaz’ visit to Oprah Winfrey’s television program during the last presidential elections?
Does anyone remember the words Carmen cried out in desperate warning to all women, encouraging women to vote because, if they did not vote, they could be raped and there is nothing they will be able to do about it?
What a genius!
And all the while Oprah sat there silent, did not correct her, chastise her, or correct her. The women on the program seemed to agree with one another on these strange comments.
Bottom line, Conservative white men = bad; left wing, liberal, feminist democrats = good.
William
William2006 on June 23, 2007 at 3:39 AM
William2006, yes I remember that comment. Hoprah said nada..can’t stand her either.
When diaz said that comment, I had had enough of hollywood and vowed to keep a list of far leftist kooks and to NEVER pay a dime for their movies or cd’s again. Time to send a message….money counts.
Highrise on June 23, 2007 at 7:18 AM
Cameron Diaz: Dumber than a bowl of mice.
ZK on June 23, 2007 at 8:16 AM
Don’t give this twit more credit than she deserves. She’s just another Hollyweird celebrislut.
lynnv on June 23, 2007 at 8:18 AM
AP’s exit question is based on the false premise that Diaz is now aware of her “faux pas” and is ready to repent. I submit she is neither.
TwinkietheKid on June 23, 2007 at 8:19 AM
Once and Ogre, always an Ogre
E L Frederick (Sniper One) on June 23, 2007 at 8:28 AM
Or Mao or what her silly bag even says. Picture her shopping….oooohhh, look a bag with some *oriental* writing on it. Oh-my-GaaAAWDD! It’s so mysterious. I’ve just got to have it!
That bag could have said “Kick me, I’m a moron” and she would have bought it and paraded around with it and had it tatooed on her @$$ because she though it was some monk chant.
Alden Pyle on June 23, 2007 at 8:30 AM
If she does it’ll only be because she might lose some fans. If she doesn’t it” be because she might get more invites to commie hollywood cocktail parties.
csdeven on June 23, 2007 at 9:00 AM
She is just stupid. I can’t beleive how our culture adores these dumb celebrities who would be flipping burgers in the real world.
ctmom on June 23, 2007 at 9:06 AM
She uses it to carry a sheet of toilet paper for when she poo’s in the woods with Barrymore.
Wade on June 23, 2007 at 9:31 AM
Not that you’ll see this See-Dub, but yep, I have a different handle at Ace’s.
Bad Candy on June 23, 2007 at 9:34 AM
I’m sure the bag is reversible for such embarassing faux pas’s as this.
(The other side is emblazoned with a golden Swastika and the phrase beneath “Arbeit Mach Frei“… coz ya gotta support those “workers”, right dude-ette!)
profitsbeard on June 23, 2007 at 9:35 AM
I have a Chia Pet that is smarter than Cameron Diaz…and cleaner !
DoctorDentons on June 23, 2007 at 9:40 AM
A tool with a bag?
Fashion-ista!
locomotivebreath1901 on June 23, 2007 at 10:27 AM
Do you remember the PSA she made with Gwyneth Paltrow where she said owns a hybrid car? I wanted to ask her, yea, but do you DRIVE it?
pabo on June 23, 2007 at 10:51 AM
She’s just a typical Democrat Communist. There are a lot of idiots out there, celebrity and non celebrity, that think communism is great. I don’t get how they can not understand just how many people communism has killed, and not understand why so many people risk their lives to get away from communism. If it was so great, why aren’t more people going to live in China or Cuba?? Makes me sick.
StephC on June 23, 2007 at 11:25 AM
She’s also Cuban, which makes this even more egregious. No, she doesn’t care. El Sendero Luminoso tore that country apart and paved the way for the lunatic they have in office now. It’s a shame, Peru’s a beautiful country full of rainforests, archaeological relics, and surf.
PRCalDude on June 23, 2007 at 11:27 AM
I caught a video of my reaction when reading this story:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jHjFxJVeCQs
Vincenzo on June 23, 2007 at 11:38 AM
Chalk another 70,000 victims up to reactionary leftists.
That makes 120,070,000 so far.
Do you realize that the margin of error in estimating the number of humans killed by communism is actually larger than the entire Nazi Holocaust?
N. O'Brain on June 23, 2007 at 12:04 PM
But – but – totalitarian iconography is sooo kewl!
forest on June 23, 2007 at 12:20 PM
There, fixed it for you!
cmdrsubfleet on June 23, 2007 at 1:00 PM
Well, she is blonde after all….
Tim Burton on June 23, 2007 at 1:23 PM
She is among the worst of the bad, a notorious stupid and ill-informed leftist ideologue. A Douchebag, if you will.
Jaibones on June 23, 2007 at 2:16 PM
Heh.
Jaibones on June 23, 2007 at 2:17 PM
But “Shining Path” sounds so New Age-y! It must be, like, a path you follow to achieve greater self-actualization!/Cameron off
And to think that I used to find her attractive, back when she did The Mask. Before she chopped her long hair and got so damn skinny.
ReubenJCogburn on June 23, 2007 at 2:29 PM
Maddox can string together a rant better than anyone, at least in his essay style.
amnistitio delenda est
apostle26 on June 23, 2007 at 3:27 PM
I don’t believe it would matter to her if she knew what this meant to the people of Peru. This happened in the 80’s and 90’s, which only means “past” to them and the people should be “over it” by now.
This is no different from the blank stares Hollywood people or Jane Fonda or Sean Penn give when asked about how many hundreds of thousands or even millions of people Saddam killed.
moonsbreath on June 23, 2007 at 3:50 PM
They are our elite, don’t you ever forget it.
Neo on June 23, 2007 at 3:55 PM
Communism is very “in” this season. But also, she’s dumb as a rock. Remember, “rape will be legal if Bush is re-elected”?
Karol on June 23, 2007 at 4:22 PM
with mao chic, che chic and the hammer and sickle so popular for clothing, one has to wonder when the swastika will be on the back of the air head groups tees. Come on now folks, hitler was a rank amateur compared to lenin and mao
CBP
…the will of the masses is divided by far-reaching distortions and the mass mind is corrupted by a knowledge worse than ignorance because it is false.
Ely Culbertson
colorfulbeachpersona on June 24, 2007 at 1:16 AM
Not trying to be contrary for contrary sake, but I don’t think she deserves more criticism than any other liberal simply because she’s a “celebrity”~she did something dumb, and it gets noticed across the entire world-that’s humiliating.
I don’t accept the world’s idea of “Celebrity”. My hope is the same for all of us, even Cameron Diaz-that as we get older, we become wiser, and leave youthful foolishments behind.
Doug on June 24, 2007 at 2:53 PM
It was said centuried ago, and still be said by royalty…Let them eat bread.
right2bright on June 24, 2007 at 3:18 PM
this is a perfect picture of what is wrong with the extreme left. They think communism is ‘trendy’ even though they’ve never had to live under its yoke
Keli on June 25, 2007 at 9:42 AM
For her next trip she will be visiting Uganda wearing a Idi Amin tank top.
GREENTURTLE on June 25, 2007 at 10:38 AM
First,Diaz is no kid. She’s 35 years old. And I bet she’s politically cognizant enough not to run around with her Che paraphernalia in Miami or at family get togethers.
Two, a number of Shining Path terrorists have recently been re-sentenced and have been released or will be released in a few years. They are unrepentant and this is clearly a sensitive time for Peruvians.
Blake on June 25, 2007 at 10:54 AM
First Red China and then the location of the Maoist uprising.
Next stops on Cameron’s Commie Pilgrimage…
1. The Killing Fields of Cambodia
2. Jane Fonda’s anti-aircraft gun in Vietnam
3. Che’s summer home in Cuba
4. Soviet winter ‘retreats’ in Siberia
dandy on June 25, 2007 at 1:52 PM
Someone should explain to the Hollywood elite just what their lives would be like if they lived in a true working communist state, operating by the core communist principles laid down by Lenin or Mao or the other “founding fathers” of communism.
No exclusive mansions, cars, clothes, jets, clubs, etc.
No stratospherice salaries. No personal accountants, lawyers, domestic servants, managers, personal assistants, etc
No special reservations at trendy clubs, restaurants, ski resorts, spas, etc
No special treatment or access to sporting events, concerts, shows, movies, plays, etc.
No groupies, no sychophants, no “celebrity” appearances, no “guest” judges, no special interviews, etc.
And on, and on, and on, and . . . .
If they only had a clue what they stood to loose under true communism. They would lose so much more than those of us who are actually standing in the gaps trying to stop communism from destroying mankind, and yet we are the ones they demean, condemn and revile.
Idiots!
Fatal on June 25, 2007 at 2:46 PM
I think if these celebs want to be truly “trendy,” they need to be AHEAD of the trends. Perhaps a T-shirt with Saddam or Arafat on it. Come on, get with it, kiddos. Don’t stop with the “old” psychotic leaders, get the New Ones on there.
After all, we know they all meant well. (Yeah, that joke will NEVER get old)
mjk on June 25, 2007 at 2:58 PM
Isn’t that how “trendy” is? In order to be trendy, you have to be ahead of the trends to be trendy. I think I just tied myself in a knot with that reasoning.
mjk on June 25, 2007 at 2:59 PM
With all of these celebrities trying to paint themselves as saints (normally when they’ve had a damaging press), a moronic incident like this had to happen in a politically sensitive area of the world. I’m only surprised it hasn’t happened sooner. But I did think it was going to be Jolie.
Normally the publicity and organisational machine around narcissistic cretins, like Diaz, prevents them from being themselves. I wish all celebrities could be allowed to be themselves. Even more, I wish all celebrities could be allowed to see themselves. I wonder if Diaz is seeing herself right now?
sallyuk on June 25, 2007 at 3:06 PM
I have to give her credit for coming clean within two days of the smelly stuff hitting the fan. That’s better than most of the pretty but dumb hollywierd crowd would have done. The “more healing” comment she felt she had to add so people would know how much she really does care was as transparent as it gets though… As Harry the cab driver in Heavy Metal would say, “Cute, but dumb.”
JEFF_IN_NC on June 25, 2007 at 4:02 PM
“Celebrity Moron,” huh?
REDUNDANCY ALERT
gryphon202 on June 25, 2007 at 4:20 PM
I’m not just trying to be mean, but her mouth has always reminded me of the Joker.
It’s like she got hit by a blast of Smiley.
OK — I’m done being churlish.
Now on to the facts:
She’s officially a jack-ass. I mean, that’s like showing up to a NAACP meeting wearing a Dixie flag like a tunic.
Only a special kind of stupid wears political clothing when traveling. A “World Peace Through Superior Air Power” shirt is funny here, but it will get you unceremoniously shivved in the kidneys in some other parts of the world. Prudence, people.
Mephistefales on June 25, 2007 at 5:16 PM
My last thought on this subject –
I don’t understand why Cameron Diaz is so famous. Much like Angelina Jolie, Diaz is overrated and really not much of an actress. They’re more famous for being famous than acting in movies people actually want to see. Of course that’s just me.
mjk on June 25, 2007 at 8:53 PM
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