The recently-posted article by Stan Cox with that title begins this way: "When right-wing pundits and corporate flacks compare environmentalists to watermelons (green on the outside, red on the inside), they mean it as a slur." Have "right-wing pundits," etc, really been saying that? If so, they and readers of this list may be interested to know that the image is a direct steal from El Salvador's death-squad organizer, murderer, and founder of the ARENA party now in power, ex-major Roberto D'Aubuisson. He used exactly that metaphor of the watermelon in his political speeches, and of course "red on the inside" meant that his political opponent Napoleón Duarte was a communist. (Duarte was actually a rather conservative Christian Democrat.) The only difference is that "green on the outside" did not stand for any environmental movement in 1980s El Salvador; it was the symbolic color for Duarte's Christian Democratic Party. The party colors of ARENA, incidently, are red, white and blue. John Lamperti