A few days ago, high on the Olympic spirit, Daily Show “commentator” Lewis Black (in character he plays a blowhard) announced the “Evil Dictator Awards.”
Radovan Karadzic of Serbia got Bronz. Omar Al Bashir of Sudan gets Silver.
No guessing who gets the Gold Medal. “Bobby” Mugabe.
Mugabe proved that he still has his despotic chops by recently winning an election he actually lost, and by making everybody a billionaire.” Black then shows a clip of a CNN reporter buying 3 cans of baked beans for one trillion dollars. Its results in this punchline: “A trillion dollars for baked beans? I didn’t know they had ‘Whole Foods‘ in Zimbabwe.”
Watch here.
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[...] and by the way, the headline comes from Lewis Black on The Daily Show who, after showing a clip of a CNN reporter in Zimbabwe buying 3 cans of beans for 1 Trillion [...]