From Scrappleface:
(2007-01-21) — U.S. President George Bush today said he thinks Venezuela’s new tourism slogan, unveiled during President Hugo Chavez’s weekly broadcast, “really captures the appeal of the place for American travelers, and makes a bold call to action.”
Within the past two weeks, Mr. Chavez received authority from parliament to rule by decree, announced plans to nationalize several major industries and declared his belief that “capitalism is the road to the destruction of the world.”
However, a spokesman for Mr. Chavez denied that the Venezuelan president had introduced a new tourism slogan aimed at Americans, noting that the only remark in his speech directed to U.S. citizens was “Go to Hell, Gringos.”
Mr. Bush, when told of the denial, said, “My bad. It sure sounded like a Venezuelan tourism advertisement to me."
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