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I'm curious what you can read from this face:



*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Tue Oct 3rd, 2006 at 03:47:50 AM EST
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Ex-communist?

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Oct 3rd, 2006 at 05:33:48 AM EST
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Not quite.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue Oct 3rd, 2006 at 05:40:22 AM EST
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but the over-excited check-his-blood-pressure! look makes me think he's probably pretty far to the Right. I bet he also indulges in a little anti-Semitism from time to time. Never trust a big man with tiny teeth.
by Matt in NYC on Tue Oct 3rd, 2006 at 02:46:00 PM EST
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Am I right to guess that you know who's on the picture?

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue Oct 3rd, 2006 at 04:12:35 PM EST
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He looks vaguely familiar for some reason, but I can't quite place him.
by Matt in NYC on Tue Oct 3rd, 2006 at 08:05:06 PM EST
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It is poissible you remembered the following picture from my The Laughing Fourth diary (showing MIÉP leader Csurka, flanked by the leader of Jobbik and a lower-ranked MIÉP leader):



*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Wed Oct 4th, 2006 at 07:16:59 AM EST
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(...showing them contemplating a crushing election loss this spring.)

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Wed Oct 4th, 2006 at 07:18:42 AM EST
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Maybe. I remember reading this diary and following through on some of the links. Also that I was particularly intrigued by Jobbik's retro double-cross logo.
by Matt in NYC on Wed Oct 4th, 2006 at 09:11:29 AM EST
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DoDo!  And you thought we wouldn't recognize you... ;-)
by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Tue Oct 3rd, 2006 at 07:06:49 AM EST
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That was below the beltline...

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue Oct 3rd, 2006 at 09:52:04 AM EST
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I know, and I humbly apologize.  Couldn't help myself. :-\
by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Tue Oct 3rd, 2006 at 09:57:13 AM EST
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Tiny party, focuses on hunter rights.
by Alex in Toulouse on Tue Oct 3rd, 2006 at 04:27:31 PM EST
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He looks closer to what Le Pen really looks like.

I think there have been too many comments already for me to say any more. (Though the idea of him being a former Communist is not incompatible, of course, with him being a stinking anti-semitic rabble-rouser... Just as he could be the same thing on the far right).

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Oct 3rd, 2006 at 04:40:58 PM EST
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He looks closer to what Le Pen really looks like.

That's what I thought to post him -- he's the collague of Le Pen, and even had Le Pen invited for a rally a few years ago. He is István Csurka, leader of MIÉP.

(Re Migeru, there is a small communist connection. He took part in '56 as a youth, was sentenced, then got free, to become a celebrated playwright. When in the late eighties he sensed that the system is crumbling, he suddenly became outspoken and got silenced, then joined the right-wing mass party MDF, from which he broke away to form his far-right party. In the nineties, it came out that when in prison, he signed a paper that he will be an informant for the secret service. He claims he never wrote a report an none turned up, on the other hand, some agents reported in words, and it is suspicious that he was a supported [not tolerated, not banned] playwright until the end, and that he has rather good secret service connections that resulted in some leaks to him.)

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Wed Oct 4th, 2006 at 07:14:44 AM EST
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