[conservative in nyc]

Many Cooper Union lectures are open to all. It sounds like this one was, too. Here's a blog entry from the type of lefty who attended. They were not all students. There were even some Hassidic Jews in the audience, for some reason. Chavez used them as a prop to claim that he had Jewish friends but was against Israeli aggression.

Moonbat Harry Belafonte introduced Chavez, for what it's worth.

[SeaBiscuit]

"Moonbat Harry Belafonte introduced Chavez, for what it's worth."

Chavez's girlfriend Glover will be upset.

[DaveTesla]

Chavez and guests attended by invitation only.

[Free ThinkerNY]

From the Lefty moron's blog:

Among the other miscellaneous themes addressed by Chavez that I jotted down on my notepad:

- Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation

- Afro Venezuelans

- Noted political writer Noam Chomsky, whose latest book talks about how U.S. dominance could give rise to the extinction of the human race

- Noted American author Mark Twain, who espoused anti imperialist politics

- astronomy and the planet Mars, advances in NASA technology and his own ponderings of the universe and Big Bang theory

- Chavez's own global travels throughout Africa, Portugal, Spain, and South America

- Peter Cooper and the importance of Cooper Union as an educational institution (this fed into a wider discussion of educational advances in Venezuela and Simon Rodriguez, Simon Bolivar's tutor)

- structural reform of the United Nations

- U.S. President John F. Kennedy, who was killed by the American right wing

- Martin Luther King, who would have been U.S. president if he had not been assassinated

He left the speech before he could hear Chavez proclaim his desire to visit Louis Farrakhan's Mother Ship in outer space and his intention to have plastic surgery to make him look like his idol Mao Tse Tung.