PHYSICIAN, HEAL THYSELF :

Tennis Great Navratilova Attacks U.S. Values (Reuters, June 26, 2002)

U.S. tennis great Martina Navratilova criticized her adopted homeland in a German newspaper on Wednesday, saying money is the only thing that matters there. [...]

"The most absurd part of my escape from the unjust system is that I have exchanged one system that suppresses free opinion for another," said Navratilova, 45, who fled Czechoslovakia at the age of 18 to go to the United States. [...]

"The Republicans in the United States manipulate public opinion and sweep any controversial issues under the table," Navratilova said.

"It's depressing. Decisions in America are based solely on the question of 'how much money will come out of it' and not on the questions of how much health, morals or the environment suffer as a result."

Just what Republicans need--Renee Richards's main squeeze lecturing us on "values". Posted by Orrin Judd at June 26, 2002 4:25 PM