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Martina Navratilova: Americans
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Martina Navratilova, who defected from communist Czechoslovakia, and earned American citizenship apparently suffers from BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome). In so many words, she says Bush is worse than the communists behind the old Iron Curtain! This is the intellectual power of the left.
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Navratilova, it seemed, was always against the grain. "How gratifying it must have been for her to have achieved so much, triumphed so magnificently," wrote Frank Deford, author and longtime Sports Illustrated writer. "Yet always to have been the other, the odd one, alone: lefthander in a right-handed universe, gay in a straight world; defector, immigrant; the [last?] gallant volleyer among those duplicate baseline bytes. When she came into the game, she was the European among Americans; she leaves as the American among Europeans—and the only grown-up left in the tennis crib. Can't she ever get it right?"
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The old newspaper stories that used to describe Martina as the “cold Eastern European” compared to her American competitors seem like silly fairy tales now. Martina is warm and friendly, laughing out loud in spots throughout the interview.
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