Friday, July 6, 2007

Confessions of a Closet Republican: Rage Boy vs Paul Potts or the difference between the East and West

"Kathleen Parker wrote a great commentary about the 2 latest Internet phenomenons- Paul Potts and 'Rage Boy, or as she pegs them: 'Beauty and the Beast'. The Kashmiri rent-a-protester (better known as 'Rage Boy') who has been photographed at every protest photo-op in the area, from the Danish Cartoon protests to the recent brouhaha re. Salman Rushdie, was popularized by Christopher Hitchens and snappedshot.com. The latter website has an hilarious series of photos of 'Rage Boy', in various locales, all with the same gaping fish mouth look.

On the other hand, an unassuming, nebbish salesman, Paul Potts,' took the world by storm when he won 'Britain's Got Talent' with his surprisingly lovely operatic voice. Parker likens the two in as much as they are both '...mostly recognizable by their mouths --' but adds that they: "

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