CNN [en Espanol] Reporter: Chavez 'Epitome of the Populist Leader'

Newsbusters ^ | March 13, 2009 - 10:47 | Ken Shepherd

[chuck_the_tv_out]

Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez is "attractive to any journalist" because he's "the epitome of the populist leader" with "plain tastes" and "overwhelming charisma," CNN en español senior anchor Patricia Janiot told journalist Cristian Savio in a recent interview

[chuck_the_tv_out]

[BenLurkin]

Communist reporters at CNN?

Huh.

[J40000]

obama = chavez-lite

[SumProVita]

Epitome of the POOPulist Leader

;-)

[donna]

Newspaper headlines:

Chavez Threatens to Take Over All Private Banks
Chavez Takes Over Caracas City Police
Hugo Chavez Takes Over American Oil Companies
Chavez takes over biggest gold mine in Venezuela
Chavez Threatens to Take Over Schools
Chavez Takes Over Private TV Network
Venezuela takes over Irish firm’s tree farm
Chavez warns may take over large food distributor
Venezuela’s Chavez threatens dairy farmers
Chavez takes over fuel transport

[KarlInOhio]

Chavez, please wipe. It smells like you have a little CNN stuck back there.

[ken21]

most american “journalists”

get horny when they go to a communist state.

[Redgirl]

Every time I see him I get enraged, sort of. How dare he call our President a devil on our own soil. He's going to turn Venezuela into a craphole.

[wardaddy]

Late 40s former Colombian beauty queen, I woulda thought she knew better...most Colombians from her station aren't fond of Marxist thugs...she's nice looking though...memory lane from my CBO daze

[livius]

Why it is considered to be a “good thing” to be a “populist leader,” aka demagogue, is beyond me.

The other thing that’s beyond me is what anybody could possibly find attractive or charismatic about that buffoon Chavez. Of course, I also don’t know what they find attractive or charismatic about our buffoon, Barry O.

[sinanju]

She sounds like he’s made her his mistress.

Otherwise, it’s just more of the Eason Jordan strategy of trading flattery for access.

[rbg81]

These people will scream at the top of their lungs that conservatives are depriving them of freedom of speech. Obviously, that is a total falsehood—else how would they be able to scream? Whe it comes to a Left-wing facist thug like Chavez, however, they simply can’t wait to grovel and lick his boots.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Uh, I don’t want or need a ‘leader’. I want public servants who do their thing for a specified period of time and then leave to go back into private life. I don’t consider politicians qualified to ‘lead’. They aren’t generally experts at anything, so they basically need to be good administrators who rely on the input of experts they’ve selected to help them make sound decisions. It’s a job. “Leader’ sounds offensive to me.

[VeniVidiVici]

Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez is "attractive to any journalist" because he's "the epitome of the populist leader" with "plain tastes" and "overwhelming charisma," CNN en español senior anchor Patricia Janiot told journalist Cristian Savio in a recent interview

Wow! Stalin reincarnated!