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WHY DON’T YOU MARRY HIM
The Sydney Morning Herald’s Andrew West just loooooves Hugo Chavez:
The great Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is, yet again, humiliating George Bush by showing him how a national leader should act.
It gets worse. God only knows how much West—a mainstream reporter at an allegedly general-interest newspaper—adores Castro.
looneyc there must be a few cos radio national was jumping the shark on the weekend about Cuban doctors in Venezuela and how they are giving the people for the first time dignity and empathy?
By the way Chavez must be special cos the country has released a mass produced Chavez plastic DOLL so that people can take a piece of their idol home!Oh, and if you need a laugh read the comments.
I especially liked the one about Cuba sending 15,000 (yes 15,000) doctors to Venezuela, one wonders:
A/ Where did Cuba find 15,000 Doctors?
B/ How can Cuba spare 15,000 Doctors?
C/ How did they get 15,000 Doctors to Venezuela?Obviously I could go on but I haven’t finished reading the comments yet and it takes awhile when you include 15 minutes of uncontrollable laughter after each one.
Doesn’t Andrew find anything wrong with the fact the dickhead is basically robbing his own countrymen of the oil proceeds?
Posted by Quentin George on 2005 11 28 at 05:25 AM • permalinkI would love Hugo Chavez to, provided I am not a pro-democracy supporter who likes protesting. Or provided I was not a business owner or a land lord who has committed the appalling crime of owning some farms and one or two investment properties. Or provided I wasn’t an army general who tried to restore democracy by overthrowing this nut case.
The great Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is, yet again, humiliating George Bush by showing him how a national leader should act.
“The great Cuban leader Fidel Castro is, yet again, humiliating Ronald Reagan by showing him how a national leader should act.”
“The great Soviet leader Stalin is, yet again, humiliating Winston Churchill and FDR by showing them how a national leader should act.”
Etc. etc.
It’s broken record time once again on the Left. Although the fact that they’re having to pick a manifest moron and tinpot dictator like Chavez this time doesn’t say too much about their available options. Oh, how West must pine for a real strong horse like Saddam to cheerlead for.
But then again, the Left believes papier mache puppets, vandalism and snapping wet towels at authority figures are serious forms of protest and dissent.
You forgot pies in the face. As Ann Coulter said, “Liberals enjoy claiming that they are intellectuals, thrilled to engage in a battle of wits. This, they believe, distinguishes them from conservatives…I’m not sure how these descriptions square with the fact that liberals keep responding to conservative ideas by throwing food.”
Chavez is a disaster. He’s intent on destabilising the whole region. He’s funneling money and guns to communist narco-terrorists in Columbia, stirring up trouble with the almost equally vile Evo Morales in Bolivia, undermining Argentina’s independence by giving feckless Nestor Kirchner huge oil bond loans and allowing Islamofascist camps to be set up in southern Venezuela. He wants to take over the mantle of Castro when the old monster finally croaks. He needs a bullet in the head, pronto. Come back, Henry Kissinger, all is forgiven.
Posted by David Gillies on 2005 11 28 at 01:14 PM • permalinkThis morning I read the Wall Street Journal (in my bathtub, immersed in cucumber in cream bubble bath, and while drinking freshly brewed Hawaiian grown coffee, yes, nice) and one article discussed Argentina’s problem with inflation. It said the country has the worst inflation rate in Latin America with the exception of Venezuela.
Couple that with the fact that GNP is declining outside the oil industry and you have the makings of economic incompetence by Chavez.
I think it would be best if he started focusing more on the conditions within his own country than worrying about the US.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 11 28 at 01:21 PM • permalinkSo. Am I to take it then that West wants Bush to re-write the US Constitution to remodel the Supreme Court so he can pack it with sycophants who will then okay a re-writing that let’s him hold an election to become President-for-Life in an election that should have made Jimmy Carter gag? And then Bush can arm a personal army who goes about beating, shooting and generally oppressing his enemies? And personally take over the wealth of the country and start exporting revolution to Canada and Mexico, et al? Wow!! This guy out-neocons the neocons!!
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2005 11 28 at 02:47 PM • permalinkI noticed West made mention of the attempted coup on Chavez in 2002 (of course US-backed). Didn’t of course mention that Chavez twice attempted military coups himself in the 1990s before finally getting elected.
As for the cheap petrol thing, how anyone can look at an exercise that subsidises US citizens at the expense of people in a poor Latin American country and think it’s anything but a political stunt shouldn’t be taken seriously as a commentator.
Dave S.
Oh, yes. Forgot those pies. And the oh-so-tolerant hectoring of conservative speakers on college campuses.
Hey, anybody can play Chavez’s game. Given the chronic under-performance of oil-rich Venezuela’s economy, the U.S. should offer to send down a few of its Nobel Prize-winning economists, some clever Wall Street financiers and a batch of whiz-kid MBA’s.
If Chavez’s ham-handed buffoonery makes him a statesman, then I’m Mahatma Gandhi.
West is an idiot…plain and simple!
Just like Kerry O’Brien who last night tried to link mass murderer Amrozi’s death row plight with that of Van Nguyen.
Just like the idiocy of the doco screened on ABC last night that painted a benign picture of life in North Korea, saving all its criticism for…guess who??? The U.S. of course.
Just like Lateline who tried to paint Opus Dei with the same brush as Islamic “fundamentalists”
Just like the ABC’s Asia Pacific Focus program on Sunday, who in their round-up of what people in “the region” were saying, quoted the New York Times which called Bush a hypocrite for demanding democracy in China when there’s none at home, according to them!
IDIOTS!http://vwt.d2g.com:8081/2005/11/darlings-of-critical-progressive-left.html
The government denied that Soriano had been mistreated. A thorough medical examination by a civil surgeon reveals that, beyond lacerations, severe bruising, and cracked ribs, Soriano had been repeatedly raped while in custody. His right arm shows that he has been injected. Nails are missing from his left hand. Soriano’s internal organs have been crushed to the point that he urinates blood, and he cannot walk without assistance.
What govt?
ChavezPosted by epaminondas on 2005 11 28 at 09:24 PM • permalinkWhat is it with Latin America? This region has been an economic and social disaster area for as long as I can remember. It must be the Spanish language - Spain and the Philippines aren’t much better. Isn’t Spanish the language of Cuba?
Posted by walterplinge on 2005 11 29 at 02:29 AM • permalinkwalterplinge,
What is it with Latin America? This region has been an economic and social disaster area for as long as I can remember.
Some Latin American scholars have asked the same thing.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2005 11 29 at 02:38 AM • permalinkSbs made the lo-o-ngest bo-O0-ringest double episode mockumentary about Che Chavez-even for them it was a millstone er milestone.
Wonderful how the sbs and abc cameras just happen to be very close (urgh) to Unionista Sharyn as she trundled her signature laden trolley (like a 50’s tea lady) into St Barnabus’s office,also inhabited by cameras.
She then regaled him with a list of Dorothy Dixers or rhetorical questions on how he should vote on the I.R. laws.
Scarily he said he felt like a big bad wolf—oh what a big ego you have Grandma…but made no attempt to bite her—I’d like to see that.#28. Indeed, what is it with Latin America?
It was my privilige to live there for a couple of years in the early 80’s, which was a formative experience. I’d naively expected the philosophical expression of our Commonwealth (ie. no-one will die of neglect) to be common to humanity. Instead, the experience of stepping over dead bodies by dawn’s early light in city streets brought home the reality of life in a recently post-leftist society.Agrarian land reform had transformed a nett food exporter into a nett food importer and global mendicant within 12 months, a situation that took over 20 years to stabilise and rectify. And the societal attitudes, even among the educated, was inevitably neurotically anti-American, with infantile persecution stories the norm. Like, as if it would ever be in the interests of the US to work toward cruelling the prospects and outcomes for Latin America?
Yeah, sure. If you were a regional industrial powerhouse, there’s no way you’d want stable and prosperous neighbours, would you? Far better to connive to render them unstable, corrupt and impoverished? Otherwise they’d be able to buy your products/services and would cease to be a drain on your generosity and resources. And who knows where that’d lead?
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Wow, if he sends petrol to be sold on the cheap to other countries poor, imagine what he does for the poor in his own country!
Oh that’s right I forgot there are no poor in socialist utopias.
Silly me.