You’ve got to love the WWW. Not long after I posted my Pelosi Parlance entry questioning what I might have heard California’s beloved congresswoman say in her commentary on Hugo Chavez, I received an email response correcting me (might have to use this method as a fact-checker again in the future–it’s certainly effective). Blog reader Gitana explains that Pelosi was referring NOT to Simone de Beauvoir (silly existentially inclined me) but to Simon Bolivar, and pronouncing it correctly as ’see-mohn’. “Doh,” as Homer Simpson would say. But as far as “Doh”s I feel fairly confident that it’s one of the less retardedly offensive of them. I did secretly relish the idea that Pelosi was comparing a contemporary hardcore dictator to a tough-as-nails French philosopher of the feminist persuasion…if in a bit of an odd context. Let me dream if I want to…

Posted by Shana Ting Lipton