Posted on 09/21/2006 5:58:31 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez has taken his anti-imperialist rhetoric to New York's Harlem overnight and ridiculed US President George W. Bush as a puffed-up John Wayne wannabe. And a supportive crowd loved it.
Mr Chavez stunned delegates at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday by calling Mr Bush "the devil himself" and saying he left the smell of sulfur hanging in the chamber from his appearance the previous day.
He received an ovation at the United Nations, but nothing like the raucous and upbeat receptions later Wednesday at a free university and again overnight at a Baptist church in the predominantly black neighbourhood of Harlem.
Crowds soaked up his critique of the Iraq war, his interpretation of the history of US military interventions and his stories about visiting Cuban President Fidel Castro, who is recovering from surgery.
They chanted pro-Chavez slogans and applauded his oil diplomacy. Mr Chavez extended his policy of giving away heating oil or selling it at a discount to poor Americans, this time benefiting a Native American group.
"Every day I ask God, and the sooner the better, for the American people to elect a president who you can talk with, who you can work with, who you can talk with face-to-face as a brother and see each other as equals," Mr Chavez told the Harlem Church overnight.
"Not this gentleman who walks like John Wayne," Mr Chavez said, puffing out his chest and swinging his elbows back and forth. The crowd went wild, but the carefully chosen audiences reflected public opinion outside the American mainstream.
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Too bad there weren't pollsters at the exit of this "speech" today to ask pointed questions about Chavez, and if the attendees REALLY knew who/what they were cheering on.
I don't think sane Americans would cheer this despot if they really knew who he was, besides a grandstanding terrorist-gladhanding jackass.
Like pat buchanan and his crowd, the ONLY thing that matters is he hates President Bush.
bttt
If the people of Harlem like Chavez so much I would be willing to support a fund to send them the F down to Venezuela with him.
Chavez is dangerously crazy, but after trying to promote Noam Chomsky's book to the UN, only the farthest left loonies will even listen to him. The more the left entertains and promotes Chavez, the more they alienate themselves from the voters. They are only making fools of themselves, and they are very good at it, so let them continue.
Bush is partial to Roy Rogers.
"Yippee Kay-Yay MoFo"
John Wayne is often named the most popular movie star (of all time), even up until the last few years.
Liberal Democrats.
Maybe they ought to have have Hugo do some roadside aerobics.... I bet he blows a high score on the machine.
John Wayne would kick Chavez's a$$
I think the liberals top star is Woody Allen.
Chavez is definitely in contention for the Democrat nomination. Will it be Chavez-Clinton? Chavez-Kerry?
“A John Wayne movie,” I said. “That’s what you were going to say, wasn’t it? We think war is a John Wayne movie. We think life is a John Wayne movie — with good guys and bad guys, as simple as that. Well, you know something, Mister Limey Poofter? You’re right. And let me tell you who those bad guys are. They’re us. WE BE BAD.”— P.J. O’Rourke, Holidays in Hell.
I'd like to personally smack the sh*t out of every American that cheered Hugo. I would feel the same even if Kerry had won the election and he (Hugo) had said the same things about him (as if...).
What the hell is wrong with these people?
I agree. I wish W WERE more like "The Duke."
"Well, the current President may walk like me. I don't see that as a bad thing."
Ya just have to love the Duke.
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