September 15, 2003

A ARTE DO INSULTO
Insultar alguém como deve ser pode ser uma arte - pelo menos é essa a tese defendida por Eric Gibson no «Wall Street Journal», que evoca alguns antecedentes históricos: Disraeli said of Robert Peel that he was like a poker except that "a poker gives off occasional signs of warmth." In the 1980s, Labour leader Michael Foot labeled Thatcher aide Norman Tebbit "a semi-housetrained polecat." Labour's Denis Healey said the experience of being attacked by the mild-mannered cabinet minister Geoffrey Howe was "like being savaged by a dead sheep.". Se querem ler mais sobre a arte do insulto na política leiam este artigo.