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Betsy Perry is a marketing consultant, but her byline on the Huffington Post notes that she's a "New York Commissioner for Women's Issues, appointed by Mayor Bloomberg." Her post today, titled, "Montezuma's Revenge: Can The Best Thing About Mexico Really Be Beverly Hills Chihuahua?" opines, "Nowadays the best PR Mexico has is the movie 'Beverly Hills Chihuahua.' Between the guns, drugs, kidnappings and swine flu, this poor country can't catch a break and, maybe it shouldn't." Which was pretty poorly received by readers (one comment: "Wow. Really? Someone with such a lofty title actually wrote this?") and the mayor himself; City Room reports that Bloomberg said, "Inappropriate would be the word that came to mind... I don’t know what she was thinking about." Perry told CityRoom she was embarrassed, "That’s the way I write. I have a sense of humor that obviously wasn’t funny. I’m appalled at myself. I couldn’t possibly insult anybody... I’m sorry that in any way I reflected badly in this wonderful mayor. I hope that I am forgiven." Still, Perry couldn't quite explain why Beverly Hills Chihuahua was great for Mexico since the movie takes place in...California (where Beverly Hills is).
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It's the same media that NEVER mentioned Muslims' hatred of Israel as a possible motive for 9/11.
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I have a sense of humor that obviously wasn’t funny.
Is she referring to the piece she wrote or her love of BHC? Either way, totally disagreed.
I could be wrong, but I think it's about a Chihuahua from Beverly Hills having an improbable fish-out-of-water adventure in Mexico.
"While on vacation in Mexico, Chloe, a ritzy Beverly Hills chihuahua, finds herself lost and in need of assistance in order to get back home."
From imdb. So yeah, that implies that most of the movie does take place in Mexico.
what a dumb bitch
Commissioner for Women's Issues?
Another useless taxpayer-funded government job created to appease the gods of political correctness. What does she do, give speeches on tampons and the joys of lesbianism?
More accurately, she's a member of the Commission on Women's Issues (formed in 1975 as the Commission on the Status of Women). "The Commission consists of a Chair and no less than thirty Commissioners appointed by the Mayor." I can't find any information about whether those commission members are paid.
But putting it the way she did in her bio on Huffington Post makes it sounds like she's on the same level as the Police Commissioner or something, not one of 30-plus people on an advisory committee.
Just noticed now that the Times piece says it's an unpaid post.
Might be unpaid but the job itself must incur some perks, overhead and expenses.
"Between the guns, drugs, kidnappings and swine flu, this poor country can't catch a break..."
I disagree. Mexico caught a huge break by having Uncle Sap as its northern neighbor and willing to take in millions of their unskilled illiterate citizens give them free medical care, free education, drivers licences, jobs and let them send money home, obey only the laws they want to etc...
http://www.askamexican.net/
"I’m sorry that in any way I reflected badly in this wonderful mayor."
I assumed this was a typo, but no. It doesn't make sense in the source material either.
Reading that article made my allergies flare up. I'm glad to see her eat crow.
Not to take away from the point of this post (obv. the article was really, really, really lame), but most of "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" did actually take place in Mexico. The title's misleading.
It was playing over and over in a store and it seems Beverly Hills Chihuahua made it clear Mexico is bad place for a pampered Chihuahua to be. I'm not sure if it was a positive for Mexico.
I'd be happy to pick her up and swing by Ciudad Juarez for a little late night machine gun fire and serial rape and kidnapping. Not to make her point, but just to amuse the locals who can't go anywhere amid the flu outbreak.
"STUPID, QUESTIONABLE POST ON HUFFPO"
REDUNDANT PHRASING.