The Unknown Candidate: The "Devil" Walks Among Us

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

The "Devil" Walks Among Us

"The devil came here yesterday," Hugo Chavez said, referring to Mr Bush's speech on Tuesday. "It still smells of sulphur today," he added.

BBC News reported:

"Mr Chavez, who brandished a copy of American leftist writer Noam Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance, said Mr Bush promoted 'a false democracy of the elite' and a 'democracy of bombs'.

'He came here talking as if he were the owner of the world,' the Venezuelan leader said."

Leave it to the lackey American media to feign outrage over statements such as these. Why the shock? Chavez has been publicly targeted by Bush as The-Guy-Dubya-Would-Most-Like-To-Overthrow. Hey, if I were Chavez, I'd call our self-annointed God-King the "Devil", too -- plus a few other things unfit for print.

If the news media was actually still in the business of reporting facts instead of the administration's dishonest talking-points, they would not have so easily berated and dismissed Chavez's comments, and would have considered the truth of what he said. Once past any latent adolescent dismay over name-calling, one finds the speech to be 100 percent reality-based and the criticisms of Bush 100 percent justified.

At least, the members of the UN did.

According to The Conservative Voice:

"Indicating strong support, after his speech, UN members gave Chavez a standing ovation and rousing applause for several minutes."

Having watched the speech on CSPAN, I can attest to the enthusiasm of the members.

I, certainly could not find much, if anything, with which to disagree. In fact, Chavez's relatively short statement contained more factual, truthful, reality-based criticism of the Bush regime than the news media has produced in years -- making it all the easier for them to dismiss him, m'dear.

Read Chavez's entire speech here .