[High Praise! to Bad Science]
Technically this would be a step down from his glory days of strangling CNN reporters, but a man’s gotta keep busy somehow.
A very old picture of Donald Rumsfeld is being used to promote a brand of wasabi-coated peanuts in England:
The photographer who snapped the shot confirms it’s legit:
taken at a state dinner featuring Geisha, in Kyoto, November 21, 1974… Rumsfeld, then the White House Chief of Staff, participated in this Japanese parlor game that involved passing a piece of straw held between the upper lip and nose to the person next to him (a Geisha dressed in colorful attire, in this case). Rumsfeld, defying tradition as is his way, used a chopstick instead of the obligatory straw. The nose-down winner, however, was Sec[retary of State Henry] Kissinger, who invoked the ‘closer-to-the-upper-lip-with-his-schnoz’ rule, thereby defeating Rumsfeld and President Ford, who was also in the competition.
What this has to do with peanuts is anyone’s guess.
The important thing is that his picture is out there making hippies cry.
This is all from back when everyone thought Japan would be running the world…now we know different. http://news.yahoo.com/fed-clears-chinas-first-us-bank-takeover-012927575.html
Rumsfeld offers hippie peanuts.
Hippie eats peanuts.
Rumsfeld strangles hippie.
Police attribute hippie death to asphyxiation due to peanut allergy.
Rumsfeld laughs and looks for next victim.
The perfect crime!
I can’t wait for a product using old pictures of Anthony Weiner on its label.
I don’t think I want to see the kind of products that would be advertised using Anthody Weiner’s likeness.
Rumsfeld had a duck-face photo before it was cool.
Now he’s going to infuriate the hippies AND the hipsters.