The New York Times ran one of those boring, aimless pieces about “Who is Barack Obama?” again in today’s paper. I could not figure out what the point was. I know what it was really about: Obama is black. Just as bad was te caption on one of the pictures used to illustrate the story. This is the picture:
And this is the caption:
“Mr. Obama’s Senate office has a tiger-beating stick from his grandmother’s village in Kenya and a guitar he received as a Rock the Vote honoree.”
There’s one big problem with the caption: There are no tigers in Africa. Unless they’ve been imported by a zoo. In fact, tigers are native to Asia (mainly China and India) and Russia. How many editors at The Times missed this one?
BTW, where I’m from it’s called a knopkierie.
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Tigers…Tigers in Africa…Oh well guess the Americans still don’t get the full monty…Yay!
The imperialists are dead, long live the imperialists
Honest
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‘Tiger’ was in fact a leopard
August 28 2008 at 02:31PM
A Sapa news item issued on Wednesday reported that a 13-year-old boy was in a critical condition after he and several other people were attacked by a “tiger” in Dinoka village near Zeerust.
The animal in question was in fact a leopard.
The North West Parks Board is investigating the incident. – Sapa
… in kenya it is called a “rungu”. many residents in nairobi sleep better at night knowing that their night watchman is guarding the compound with his rungu and bow and arrows. beating tigers … not so much.