Ted Rall for November 25, 2002
Transcript:
The generalissimo's new clothes. There was a generalissimo who was so excessively fond of new clothes that he spent all his money on them. He cared nothing about his soldiers, nor for the theater except for the sake of showing off his new clothes. Bitching! One day two swindlers came to visit the generalissimo. They sold him a set of clothes which nobody, including the generalissimo, could see. But so colorful and convincing were their descriptions of those clothes that he persuaded himself that he could see them. Uh-huh... Great! Then the generalissimo took off all his clothes and went out to walk in his procession in his new invisible "clothes." Everybody in the streets exclaimed, "how beautiful the generalissimo's clothes are!" "But he has got nothing on," said a little child. The generalissimo winced, for he knew that it was true. He's bare-assed! Thus he ordered his minister of homeland security to beat the crap out of the little boy and everyone who agreed with him and to throw them all into a dark dungeon, where they were forever denied access to legal counsel. I don't care what they say - he was too nekkid! And so the mighty generalissimo and all the people who weren't in prison lived happily ever after. Looking good, sir. I know that.