Why am I not surprised? Also, I think this is the first article I have read where he is referred to as a 'dictator'.
PING – Hugo is at it again!
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Posted on 03/15/2006 7:11:05 AM PST by LK44-40
Summary of BBC broadcast report:
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, who refers to President Bush as a "terrorist," has launched “his latest front in his cold war against the U.S.” in the form of a political stunt to provide discounted Citgo heating oil to low-income Americans.
The Chvez gesture, with the world press watching, costs him only “peanuts” in terms of his cash flow but is “gold as politics,” according to a Harvard professor commenting on the situation.
The recipients, and a good many New England politicians including the “Kennedy clan,” are expressing gratitude to Chavez. Former congressman Joe Kennedy spoke in the report criticizing President Bush and lauding the actions of the leftist dictator.
It is unbelieveable that traitorous American politicians are participating in this stunt. Chavez is every bit as evil as Castro but has oil instead of sugarcane. He is buidling an enormous military machine, trying to export his Marxism throughout Latin American, conspiring with Iran and other rogue states, and spewing hostility against the U.S. and President Bush every day.
A Ping to the Chavez holder of the Hugo Chavez ping list.
Sorry about the mis-typed ping, but ya know what I meant.
Those "peanuts" would have meant a lot to all those Venezuelans living in poverty
What, is Chavez doing it again or is the Lame Stream Media measuring their reporting delays in months instead of weeks now? Ah, the Beeb ... the news must have rowed across the pond.
It is really quite easy to purchase a Kennedy
You are right to be alarmed by this agitprop from the communist in Venezuela, and particularly by the cooperation he is getting from his comrades in the DemocRAT party.
I'm seriously thinking that this guy Chavez needs to eat a bullet.
exactly - the Massachusetts liberals score points with their "poor" constituents, when there are a whole lot more people who are ten times poorer living in Venezuela. Basically, an immoral political stunt.
Communist political stunts are a lot like "liberal" political stunts. Uncle Hugo acts like the Democrat Party when setting out to buy votes in the cities.
There seems to be an on-going push behind this stunt, extending it to additional states.
I know that this story is not exactly new, but it has been seriously under-reported. Even here on FR, I don't find much. Searching titles with Chavez or with Citgo doesn't bring up this particular business, although Chavez creates almost a story a day with his various outrages.
I think the fact that it is now being reported internationally (the Beeb) -- given major play with three separate interview clips within the main report -- indicates that a threshold of propangada success has been reached. (In fairness, it must be said that the BBC report was quite cynical toward Chavez and his stunt.)
The most shocking thing to me is hearing people like Joe Kennedy ("the Kennedy clan," said the Beeb) verbally embracing Chavez. This country is in a war and leftie pols are sucking up to a militarist leftist exploiting the situation to attack the U.S. at every turn.
It is an urgent matter, IMHO, that all these comments by American traitors be noted and remembered.
Absolutely!
The BBC country profile page on Venezeula says that "Venezuela has one of the largest known oil deposits in the world...yet most Venezuelans live in poverty, many of them in shanty towns, the most infamous of which sprawl over the hillsides around the capital, Caracas."
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/country_profiles/1229345.stm )
The video tape could be very useful in future campaigns.
The leftie Dems may pick up a few votes now but they are likely to be extremely embarrassed when the country really wakes up to the evil that Chavez is doing. I will be happy to help them remember what they said.
Good, you take care of the memory department at a key time in the future. We are counting on you. :)
Soooooo typical. The professor and the dictator seem to have a lot in common... cheap tricks.
No prob AAC! Thanks for the heads-up
Ooooops! My bad.
I would love to let that stand but I noticed that word after I put up the post. That was ~my~ word; I don't have a specific recollection that the BBC referred to him that way. I was just completing a sentence and let that little editorial comment sneak in on me.
Sorry for the distraction.
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