Posted on 09/12/2005 6:19:23 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
With the lonely pathetic exception of the New York Times, editorial pages across the country are unified in warning America about the danger posed by Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez to his own country and our entire hemisphere. It's not just the Wall Street Journal, the New York Sun, and Investor's Business Daily. It's across the board - the warnings are from newspapers like the Boston Globe, the Miami Herald, the Los Angles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post.
Facts are facts about the tyrannical nature of the Chavez regime in Venezuela and in the past year, we have seen a stunning and rare unity on editorial pages.
But one editorial page seems to be going soft. The Los Angeles Times does still grasp the totalitarian nature of the Chavez regime, as it laudably has in the past. But even as it names the string of Mugabe-style confiscations happening right now in Venezuela, it makes a curious recommendation: that we tolerate and neglect Chavez ... and do nothing.
They may be softening because Chavez has sent emissaries to visit the Los Angeles Times editorial page staff this past summer to persuade them to soften their editorial line. But the paper is not changing its facts, which it continues to report accurately, something the Chavistas want whitewashed on their propaganda lines.
The Los Angeles Times, instead, seems to be hampered by its own liberalism, its own politics of weakness. In this editorial, they note that the U.S. has not been successful at containing Chavez no matter what it does. Therefore, it needs to stop trying.
It never occurs to them that the U.S. needs to try harder and better.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I wouldn't put anything surreptitious past the L. A. Times. Just reading that they had embassaries from Chavez in the L. A. Times' office making please is outrageous -- not illegal, perhaps (I can't comment as to any specifics here so am extending the benefit of the doubt), but certainly alarming given Chavez' relationships and personality.
On the other hand, certain products Chavez represents would be really interesting to the L. A. Times, and L. A. as a neighborhood.
There really are some bad people in our world. It's a waste of time to try to make the profane the pretty.
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