Are the people of WikiLeaks just like the neighborhood gossips, and doesn’t the name of their leader Julian Assange sound like a brand of hairspray? Columnist Joao Quadros of Portugal’s Jornal De Negocios takes a humorous and uniquely Portuguese and European look at what, in terms of ink spilled, may be one of the most significant news stories in years.
For the Portugal’s Jornal De Negocios, Joao Quadros writes in part:
Immediately, the U.S. administration strongly criticized the attitude of WikiLeaks. This is a classic case of global policeman and world gossip.
The disclosure and contents of the documents allow us two and a half conclusions:
1 – WikiLeaks is run by gossipers;
2 – The majority of spies/diplomats write the kinds of reports that glamour-hairdresser Suzette would write if she weren’t so busy giving extensions and fixing bangs;
2.5 – Julian Assange sounds like a name for a kind of hairspray.It’s all anecdotal. The Guardian tells Le Monde: “Did you know, that crazy guy Qaddafi can’t travel without a voluptuous Ukrainian nurse?” Le Monde responds: “Oui! He must be the only Libyan who doesn’t have trouble getting on an aircraft with a bombshell!” And they both laugh. Then Der Spiegel goes and says: “That’s why he recently asked the Non-Aligned Movement to accept Ukraine … to its bosom!” And nobody laughed. But the German is used to that.
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