Sunday, November 04, 2007

"Chavez is a Genius of a Politician: Charming, Folksy, Flirtatious"

Tina Rosenberg pens a lengthy love note to Hugo Chavez in today's New York Times magazine.

How clueless is Rosenberg? This thug Chavez is destroying his country, taking over all industries, cracking down on freedom of the press and basically making himself president for life.

Yes this nitwit gushes and giggles about how charming and flirtatious he is.

Good grief.

This paragraph is more than enough to make you lose your lunch.
Chávez is a prophet in search of disciples. He seeks to present Venezuela as a more moral world power, uniting Latin America and poor countries everywhere in a socialist alliance. He has invented a new kind of socialism, which he calls Bolivarian socialism, named for the independence hero Simón Bolívar: a little Marx, a little Jesus, a little anti-imperialism and a lot of the whim of Hugo Chávez, dedicated to the “comprehensive, humanist, endogenous and socialist development of the nation.” His is a gospel greased by oil, which is financing his transformation of Venezuela. Chávez is a genius of a politician: charming, folksy, flirtatious. I first met him in New York in 1999, the year he became president. I sat next to him at an interview, very pregnant. He embraced me — “But you should come have the baby in Venezuela!” he enthused.
Sickening.

Yes, he's quite the charmer, especially when he unleashes the troops on students.

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