Taiwan's Department of Health Minister Yeh Ching-chuan proves that you're never too old . . . to be an honorary member of the Strawberry Generation:
Yeh was confronted on Sunday evening by two Taiwanese students as he arrived at a dinner for Taiwan’s diplomatic allies. The women asked him what title he was using at the WHO meeting and accused him of “selling out Taiwan.”
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“I really don’t know what these people want,” a tearful Yeh said later at a press conference.
Now, don't you take that kind of abuse from those pretty young coeds, Weepy. Stand up for your rights !
When asked about his confrontation on Sunday night with two Taiwanese students and his threat to file lawsuits against them when he returns home, Yeh said he did not want to discuss the incident.
“Everybody has the right to speak out. I endorse the rights of the two students to speak out. But, when you do [protest], you need to make sure what you do is legal and show proper respect to others,” Yeh said.
Oh, yeah. The country's in really good hands when its ministers TURN ON THE WATERWORKS when confronted by the disaffected knee-sock and pony-tail set.
Communist party thugs in the World Health Assembly, beware. There's a new sheriff in town.
Name's Yeh. "Strawberry Shortcake" Yeh.
(But can Taiwan's new "tuff" guy defend the country's interests against that ornery, mean and miserable sneak, The Peculiar Purple Pieman of Porcupine Peak?)
("Quickdraw" Strawberry Shortcake Yeh — sans his blazing stack of subpoenas. Image from Taiwanreview.nat.gov.tw)
BLAST FROM THE PAST: Remember the days when former Taiwanese President Chen was mocked — not for threatening his hecklers with lawsuits, but for merely answering back?
Leave it to Yeh Ching-chuan to make Chen Shui-bian — Chen Shui-bian! — look like He-Man in comparison.
UPDATE: Yeh cattily "forgives" the hecklers.
Minister of Health Yeh Chin-chuan forgave co-eds from Taiwan yesterday for insulting him at a Geneva hotel dinner party on Saturday.
Yeh told reporters in Taipei by telephone the students are "ignoramuses" for disrupting the party he hosted in honor of health ministers from Taiwan's diplomatic allies.
"They are unlettered, rude compatriots," said Yeh, who is attending this year's World Health Assembly meeting as minister of the Department of Health, Chinese Taipei.
"But I forgive them," he said. [emphasis added throughout]
Seeking to bury the hatchet, the college girls generously followed suit:
"Yeh Ching-chuan is a thin-skinned, litigious, communist butt-kisser . . . but regarding his tyrannical threats to sue us, we forgive him. We're big enough to do that . . . After all, it's not HIS fault that he gets cranky as hell during that certain time of the month."
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I can’t tell if the last quote is real or a parody!
Tim Maddog
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Heh. Thanks!