
The Bush Administration and its press puppies - the same ones who couldn't get enough of the purple thumbs of voters of Iraq - are absolutely livid that this weekend the electorate of Venezuela had the opportunity to vote.
Typical was the mouth-breathing editorial by the San Francisco Chronicle, that the referendum could make Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's President, "a constitutional dictator for life." And no less a freedom fighter than Donald Rumsfeld, from the height of the Washington Post, said that by voting, Venezuela was "receding into dictatorship." Oh, my!
Given that Chavez' referendum was defeated at the ballot box, we now know that, as a dictator, Chavez is a flop. Of course, without meaning to gainsay Secretary Rumsfeld, maybe Chavez is not a dictator.
There is a special deal on blue t-shirts with the word fraud in Spanish emblazoned across the front. No use to the opposition now :)
Good point Djd:
The right wing lies through its teeth, and lies through ommission. That is so typical of the middle class deformed ideologues, who throughout class history have been servile, untruthful and criminal as class elites.
The first four items in particular in At least ten things were demonstrated in yesterday's Referendum vote! on VHeadline are worth repeating here, and the rest are worth a look too Eric.
1. Venezuela is a democracy: the majority decides even though it only has less than 200 thousands votes more.
2. Yes, in Venezuela we have a President that governs for the majority of the Venezuelans. President Chavez accepted his defeat.
3. It was established that President Chavez does not control the public powers in Venezuela. It is time to make that clear in the Venezuelan and international media.
4. The impartiality and professionalism of the Venezuelan electoral authority.
Great article, djd. And such a refreshingly unbiased take on the situation in Venezuela. Thanks for posting!
;-)
Why don't you include an "ajs" tag?
Feel free to delete this comment.
Thanks for giving us another take on the referendum, djd. Now that's what I call "fair and balanced"!
Viva la Revolucion!
"In the past we have turned alleged defeats into moral victories that then became political victories. Do not be sad. Do not feel sorry, please! For now, we could not make it. (But) I am not taking one single colon out of this proposal. This proposal is alive!"
-- Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez
"In the past we have turned alleged defeats into moral victories that then became political victories. Do not be sad. Do not feel sorry, please! For now, we could not make it. (But) I am not taking one single colon out of this proposal. This proposal is alive!"
So that's it? After all the build-up and dire predictions of tyranny by our Chavez-bashing friends (in quotes)?
Jeez. I'll bet the right-wingers were secretly looking forward to a door-to-door, search and seizure, firing-squad-at-dawn, apocalyptic sort of showdown. Instead, all they got was "Do not be sad."
They must be bitterly disappointed.
:-D
St. Joseph the Worker:
I was listening to the ideological corporate B.S. on NPR radio, so called public radio, which sounds just like corporate T.V. Once again these liberal warhawks, zionist cheerleaders, left out the fact, lying through ommission, that the "major defeat" was in fact a close vote. It is so obvious that NPR liberal class ideology is just another version of corporate, ideological, imperial propaganda. If NPR represent alternative news, what does the truth represent?
When I call for the BOYCOTT OF THE CORPORATE MEDIA, IT MUST INCLUDE THE CLASS ROT OF NPR RADIO, PHONY NEWS, PHONY OPPOSTION, PHONY UNIVERSAL STANDARDS. JUST MORE OF THE SAME CLASS LIES.
Typical was the mouth-breathing editorial by the San Francisco Chronicle, that the referendum could make Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's President, "a constitutional dictator for life." And no less a freedom fighter than Donald Rumsfeld, from the height of the Washington Post, said that by voting, Venezuela was "receding into dictatorship." Oh, my!
Given that Chavez' referendum was defeated at the ballot box, we now know that, as a dictator, Chavez is a flop. Of course, without meaning to gainsay Secretary Rumsfeld, maybe Chavez is not a dictator.
Go, Greg!
The President's electoral council controls the voter rolls, the voting machines and the ultimate count.
Wonder if the Wall Street Journal will apologize for the above smear?
Djd:
It should not only be Wall street that should admit its ideological state propaganda, but if you read Greg Palast article, the great liberal bastions of class rot, the liars and Judith Millers of the New York Times, also lied through ommissiion.
By the way the New Intelligence Estimates on Iran by the U.S. itself shows that Iran had stopped its nuclear program, unlike the hypocritical Nazi U.S. and Zionist Israel, with its double standards, and New York Time's partner of Judith Miller, Michael Gordon, and the liberal war hawks, zionist cheerleaders, got egg all over their faces, for warmongering against Iran for having nuclear weapons programs. With Liberal trash like this who needs to read the New York Times and Washington Post as they routinely lie for American Fascists, by appeasing its class thugs, and zionist warmongers. Read my comments to St. Jospeh the worker regarding NPR rotten corporate radio. Liberal class rot like that, its lies, is why the public is misinformed, and why Newsvine right wingers can get away with these lies. They only echo, and appease class laws, class standards, class ideology, class hierarchies, class empires and class dictatorship.
We've been hearing a lot about the Iran intelligence here this evening Eric. The BBC take on this is that your military don't want a war with Iran and that's why it has been leaked released.
As for those other great bastions of fair reporting: Rummy in the Post and this editorial in the NYT give a good indication of how little they value Venezuelans' ability to handle their own affairs. I suppose for Rummy, telling foreigners how to vote comes naturally.
The President's electoral council controls the voter rolls, the voting machines and the ultimate count.
If I weren't familiar with the WSJ's bent, I might have assumed this was just a misplaced outdated quote. As in seven (and three) years ago.
Yee-haw, let's lynch a chad :) - sorry I don't really understand how your voting works.
The opposition appear to be floundering, trying to find a use for those FRAUD t-shirts. They won, but not by enough apparently!
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