The Many Faces of Hugo Chavez
Is "hugo chavez" spanish for "duck lips"?
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Chavez the Intellectual
Noam Chomsky, one of the most prestigious American and world intellectuals, Noam Chomsky, and this is one of his most recent books, 'Hegemony or Survival: The Imperialist Strategy of the United States.' It's an excellent book to help us understand what has been happening in the world throughout the 20th century, and what's happening now, and the greatest threat looming over our planet.
Chavez the Theologian
Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world.
Chavez the Race Baiter
Wherever he looks, he sees extremists. And you, my brother -- he looks at your color, and he says, oh, there's an extremist.
Chavez the Scholar
The president of the United States came to talk to the peoples -- to the peoples of the world. He came to say -- I brought some documents with me, because this morning I was reading some statements, and I see that he talked to the people of Afghanistan, the people of Lebanon, the people of Iran. And he addressed all these peoples directly.
Chavez the Bug Crazy
You know that my personal doctor had to stay in the plane. The chief of security had to be left in a locked plane. Neither of these gentlemen was allowed to arrive and attend the U.N. meeting. This is another abuse and another abuse of power on the part of the Devil. It smells of sulfur here, but God is with us and I embrace you all.
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I, for one, am very glad to see that Hugo Chavez is officially recommending Noam Chomsky and celebrating him as an intellectual mentor and touchstone. For years, when I have mentioned to Chomskyites and other leftist liberals the inherent connections between Chomsky's writing and Hugo Chavez' dictatorship, I have been accused of "red baiting" and everything else under the sun. It does my heart good to see that Hugo himself has put it on the record.
We can use that quote as ammunition for years to come!
"Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty"
Kyle
A picture is worth a thousand words. Now all that is left (no pun intended) for political science departments and history professors across the fruited plain to do is lobby their Deans to invite Chavez as a commencement speaker, along with Chomsky, their mutual hero. I haven't felt this vindicated since the day it was revealed that Jerome Armstrong is an internet astrologer.
made a lot of money working for his alleged imperial war machine. He and Chavez have more than a couple of things in common along those lines; Chavez is living large, spending billions on Russian fighter jets, Iranian intelligence stations and who knows what else while his proletariat constituency remains just as poor as it was in 1998.
At least the part where he said we should dissolve the UN. It isn't included in the diary, but he seemed to believe that the UN wasn't a good organization and should be dissolved.
He thought that it was bad because we have a veto on the SC, and that it should be built back (I'm sure on our land and dime) with Venezuella wielding an equal vote. I couldn't agree on that part, but at least he had me nodding along for a little while.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful 100 percent.
Will any of the folks on the left disssociate themselves from Chavez, or will they tout his comments as an endorsement?
With oil prices plummeting, Chavez is losing major revenues, which will take money away from his socialist-imperialist agenda (to me, his talking about American imperialism is a case of projection) and further strain his oil monopoly.
If he starts talking crazy, oil traders will get nervous and bid up the price.
Funny. In a post I wrote seven months ago, I said that his Bolivarian movement was "inspired in part by the anti-American writings of Noam Chomsky." Nailed that one. The liberals at ObWi went nuts over my comment about Chavez and Chomsky.
Those who think that Bush is the "devil" and "Hitler" are now posturing to explain why the U.N. is defunct. Now that may or may not be, but I see what they (Chavez and the rest) are doing now. They won't agree with the U.N. if the U.S. proposes anything, and now since it is totally corrupt to them they will ignore the U.N. altogether. That's the best of both worlds to them.
--CG--
Did Bush have the Diablo costume? He can be a proper devil without that cute Diablo costume.