SFGate.com: Lawmakers Blast Yahoo Executives for Helping China Jail Dissident. While technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos, D-San Mateo, said at the end of the three-hour hearing.
According to Wikipedia, “[m]embers of so-called Pygmy groups often consider the term derogatory, instead preferring to be called by the name of their ethnic groups.” I guess bigotry isn’t the exclusive province of white, Southern Republicans. Talk about killing two birds with one stone. Tom Lantos managed to insult both Africans and the Little People in one quip? How about that? Is this Tom Lantos’ Macaca moment? Where is Rev. Al Sharpton?