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Washington Post Editorial Board Writes Socialism-Free Critique of Venezuela
NewsBusters ^ | May 25, 2016 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 05/25/2016 12:11:01 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

The Washington Post sure knows how to very carefully nibble around the edges when it comes to criticizing the economic system that brought disaster to a country. In this case, the Post's editorial board managed to severely criticize Venezuela for being a complete economic failure despite have the largest known oil reserves of any nation in the world. It had to be an incredibly disastrous economic system to bring such a nation so low that now it is running out of food, toilet paper, and beer. So do you think the Washington Post editorial named that system? Nope. Instead they very carefully avoided any mention of that giant elephant in the room.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: bias; liberalmedia; mediabias; msm; socialism; spiked; venezuela; washingtonpost; wp
The WORD that dares not speak its name at the Washington Post.
1 posted on 05/25/2016 12:11:02 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

Bernezuela is the correct name.


2 posted on 05/25/2016 12:18:49 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: PJ-Comix

Venezuela: proof Maggie Thatcher’s quip was dead-on right.


3 posted on 05/25/2016 12:36:36 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Please...no more unfair criticism of Venezuela. Chavez and Maduro have performed wonders in reducing Inequality. The country has progressed from 20% equality to 95%. Soon the Gini coefficient will hit 0: all goods shared equally.


4 posted on 05/25/2016 12:58:38 PM PDT by RossA
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To: PJ-Comix

So, not only can the WP bring itself to say “socialism”, but their offered solution is to devalue their currency and beg the world for welfare. Just brilliant.


5 posted on 05/25/2016 1:20:50 PM PDT by lafroste
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To: lafroste
can the WP not bring...

Sorry.

6 posted on 05/25/2016 1:22:39 PM PDT by lafroste
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The WP (and most media for that matter) is not even worthy as hogs litter.


7 posted on 05/25/2016 2:48:59 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves. Socialism is governmental theft!)
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To: PJ-Comix
Macaca.

-PJ

8 posted on 05/25/2016 2:51:57 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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