The Elian Gonzalez Museum opens! HUH?!

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I just saw it on CNN/Headline News, and literally couldn’t believe my eyes…
The house in which Elian Gonzalez was staying during his “visit” to the US has been empty since shortly after his return to Cuba.

And now it’s home to the Elian Gonzalez Museum! :rolleyes::confused:

According to CNN, you can “see where he lived, the toys he played with, and the bed in which he slept”. The video footage also showed several dozen photos, newspaper clippings, etc. All framed and glass shelves or in cabinets.

I’m dumbfounded.

Your thoughts?

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<shrugs>

Another cheap Florida tourist hustle.

Gone in 2 years, tops.

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This pit thread I started back in April, 2000 still accurately represents my feelings on the subject

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sigh
And people wonder why his dad didn’t want to stay here.

:rolleyes:

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My 1st thought was, “Only in America.”

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I was just thinking…

These folks could very well be getting Federal grants and endowments for this piece of “art”.
hmmm.

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Dumbfounded was the perfect word for my reaction, too. I saw the same piece.

Oh brother.

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I’m surprised. Not that this thing exists, but that it’s a museum and not a religious shrine. A mythology had already formed regarding Elian, including miraculous tales of him being saved by dolphins.

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They opened it to compete with the one Fidel Castro opened in Cuba. (As Dave Barry says, this is not a joke; I edited the AP story on it tonight).

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I don’t know about that, Revtim. I heard about this on my Fox affiliate and that was the exact word the reporter used in describing it – a shrine.

Only in Florida could a custody dispute obtain mythic overtones.

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I’m pretty sure that as the camera panned over the room where he slept, I saw a rosary laid out in the form of a heart on the mattress.

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They’re drinking some mighty f*cked up water in Florida.

This makes 0 for 4, right?

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Castro is secretly poisoning their water, perhaps?

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Hey, you know what? Fuck all that.
I’m really sorry to use that word, and I apologize to Grizz if I cause this to be drug to The Pit, but enough is a-fuken’-nuff.
What they need is a BIG museum, stuck out in the middle of BFN, to put all his crap, along with the well that that kid…oops, I mean,HERO fell down, the well another kid didn’t fall down, and all the other BULLSH*t mementos from every ordinary person that fell victim to circumstances which, now, cause them to be them to be enshrined as heros! Good god, people…Jee - zus.
And maybe, while they’re at it they might as well put the belt my that dad, while on an alcoholic binge, beat me with for something I didn’t do! Hero me!
This whole thing is just sick. Jodi Foster was right - news is entertainment. This whole Jerry Falwell/ Jerry Springer mentality really pisses me off.
Sadly, it reduces the meaning of the word for real heros. Pro-active citizens who knowingly put themselves at risk for someone or a cause to help the greater good.
I didn’t mean to rant here, but, come on, let’s draw the line somewhere! Please.