DailyKos Busy Spinning for Chavez

Jawa Report ^ | May 28, 2007 | Ragnar Danneskjold

[MrB]

Ah, the left, so predictable in their support for socialism.

What’s the deal, lefties? None of you able to compete and succeed where “equality” isn’t forced at the point of a gun?

Yes, Venezuela is ALREADY showing the “success” of socialism.

Land is being taken away from farmers who know what to grow and where to grow it, and given to people who don’t, the net result is NOTHING being produced from the land except the Venezuelan equivalent of dirty hippies.

[Moonman62]

"He, like Castro’s Cuba, represents the "threat of a good example". The deepest fear of U.S. planners is that if states like Cuba are permitted to follow a path of independence unchallenged,

... Like Zimbabwe.

[alarm rider]

Personally, I would contribute to a fund which would send a one-way ticket to any third world hole to any lefty that applied. One catch. You must sign a document that promises you will denounce your US citizenship and promise never to return.

These people disgust me beyond all belief.

[3AngelaD]

And meanwhile, back at the ranch, wire reports say, "Venezuela government and state-run oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA bonds declined following two days of clashes between police and protesters over the government's shutdown of the most-popular TV network...The yield on the Petroleos' 5.25 percent dollar-denominated security due April 2017 jumped 5 basis points, or 0.05 percentage point, to 7.93 percent at 2:17 p.m. New York time, according to Merrill Lynch & Co. The price, which moves inversely to the yield, fell 0.30 cent to 81.90 cents on the dollar, when the bond started trading. The yield on the 2019 government bond, known as TICC, jumped 6 basis points to 4.88 percent, the highest since March 26, according to Econoinvest Casa de Bolsa CA prices. The price dropped 0.6 to 103.30 cents on the dollar.

``Bonds are obviously absorbing all this political uncertainty, all these protests, all the inflammatory talk from either sides,'' said Nelson Corrie, head of trading at Interacciones Mercado de Capitales in Caracas...

[joebuck]

“Shutting down opposition media makes the media more pluralistic.”

"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness" Isaiah 5:20 (It just seemed somehow appropriate.)

[joebuck]

“Shutting down opposition media makes the media more pluralistic.”

"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness"
Isaiah 5:20 (It just seemed somehow appropriate.)

[dynachrome]

“dollar-denominated security”
Gee, I think I will email comrade hugo about his dissing of the Venezuelan currency and demand that only that currency be used. (wonder what the price of bonds would do then?/sarc)

[dynachrome]

Is that hillary on top?

[3AngelaD]

Is she biting his head off?

[avacado]

DailyKos is filled with a bunch of people who still live at home and the thought of supporting themselves scares them to death. Of course they love Cuba and Venezuela where everybody is "equal." The only thing at DailyKos is the sound of bums chattering.

[BlazingArizona]

Nuke some popcorn and drop in on DU right now. It’s a scream: several of them actually object on free-speech grounds to Chavez shutting down opposition TV stations, while the large contingent of Chavez sock puppets screams and jabbers at them. It’s just as good as yesterday's Cindy Sheehan meltdown.

[3AngelaD]

I am melting the butter for my popcorn as we speak. They are a barrel of laughs over there. Some of them do have working brain parts, after all. I tried to take the bad words out of these samplings...

**Gee, Bush is a bad guy. That makes it "OK" for Chavez to suspend elections, take over the military, the judiciary, the media, and the police, and act like what he is--a fucking dictator who wants desperately to be the next Fidel.

**Hey, if you think Hugo's --suspending the rule of law, --declaring himself Presidente Indefinitely, --halting elections, --tossing the Parliament, --shutting down all opposition media, TV, radio and newspapers, --enacting laws to strip dual citizens of their other-nation rights to force them to stay in VZ, --stuffing the Army, Police and Judiciary with cronies, --funding those agencies, and lining his pockets and those of his cronies with oil money, and --making it a CRIME to say anything bad about "the authorities" is a GOOD thing, well, you feel free to move there. In fact, I URGE you to--then you can report back to us...if you can get internet access out of the country, which is the next thing to go. You have no clue what that guy is doing to the country. But do cheer him on.

**Sure, many of the people there are poor. And that's not a good thing. But I don't happen to think the only way to ameliorate that is to f*** the working class, the middle class, and even those bastards in the upper class, by turning VZ into mini-Cuba.

**If you rob Peter to pay Paul, Peter quite sensibly gets out of there. And those Peters, they're lined up at the embassies, pleading for visas. Chavez SUSPENDED ELECTIONS. What part of "dictatorship" don't you understand?

[xkaydet65]

Doncha think the Kossacks have just that idea in mind if the Dems get a White House victory to go with their Congressional majority? Reinstitution of the fairness doctrine will be coupled with a crackdown of conservative internet sites and an attempt to control cable outlets like FOxNews. It will all be done in the name of fairness and diversity.

[agooga]

See:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1841575/posts

and quit being so snarky!

[reagan_fanatic]

In fact, the move - totally constitutional - may well result in a media that is more pluralistic, not less...

I'm guessing this idiot isn't a big fan of history, because it clearly demonstrates otherwise.

You couldn't make this imbicile any dumber if you were to surgically removed his brain.

[lowbridge]

Poll question: How do you really feel about Hugo Chavez?

He is a true democrat, doing what he must do for the good of Venezuela (22 votes, 35%)

He is a true democrat who may be starting to step a bit overboard in his methods. (3 votes, 5%)

He was a true democrat but has been swept up by his own ambitions and ego to do dangerous things for his country. (6 votes, 10%)

He says he is a democrat but he acts like a dictator. (3 votes, 5%)

He's a dictator plain and simple. (19 votes, 31%)

I'm just a dumb gringo who can't possibly have an informed opinion. (9 votes, 15%)

[Political Junkie Too]

And how many times have we heard that an off-hand comment by President Bush, or VP Cheney, about the MSM is "chilling," has the "whiff of fascism," is meant to stifle dissent, meant to intimidate the media, yada yada yada...?

-PJ