CNN.com calls Chavez a "left wing troublemaker"

[sazemisery]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/08/23/chavez.gasoline.reut/index.html

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The offer may sound attractive to Americans feeling pinched by soaring prices at the pump but not to the U.S. government, which sees Chavez as a left-wing troublemaker in Latin America.

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I guess because he is popular with the poor in his country he is labeled "left wing". Sounds reasonable to me.

[Skink]

1. We're the left wing troublemakers. Worry about us.

[The Traveler]

7. Yeah, buddy

We're the worrisome sort, aren't we. :evilgrin:

[ComerPerro]

2. the conservative, right wing Taliban

How come I never heard that said on CNN?

[Liberal In Texas]

3. Of course that's their message LW=troublemaker. n/t

[evilqueen]

4. Of course...

but you won't hear them utter the other side of that coin... that Bush is a rightwing nutcase.

[Nite Owl]

5. Their fascism is showing.

[durablend]

6. The poor/middle class in the US need to be DESTROYED

Not coddled.

OBVIOUSLY, this Chavez guy didn't get the message. Seems like an invasion may be in order to change his "leftist" views.

[bribri16]

8. For whom has he made trouble except for the oligarcy in Venezuela?

Neither he nor Castro has threatened an attack on the US. If we are afraid to fight in the war of IDEAS then there is really nothing to fight for in the country. If we can't stand to have neighboring countries with socialist or communist ideologies does that mean that capitalism can't measure up? The biggest communist country on earth is taking us to task economically even if we don't want to admit it. We are even dealing with them. Last time I looked, China was still a communist nation.

[Terran]

9. Look, to be completely accurate

by what you posted, CNN did NOT call Chavez a leftwing trouble-maker. They were characterizing the Bush administration's view of Chavez. Any observant reader would make that distinction.

Of course, that probably leaves out half the people who visit cnn.com.

[Just Me]

10. Never forget the democratically elected Aristide who was ousted,...

,...by corporacrats, with the backing of US FORCE, because he was trying to provide a floor for his people.

The USA has gained a global reputation of being "for profit" over the "interests of people". The citizens of the USA were shielded from the realities of oppression imposed by government-backed, profiteering and exploitation.

The blow-back from such exploitation is being burdened by people who were blinded by the corporacrats, by people who have been manipulated, by people who are seriously confused and starting to wonder, "WHY".

Thank God for the internets,...a true God-send.

[ignatius 2]

11. Good God.like the right wingers haven't created most of the

problems which are presently destroying the whole fucking world!!!

[izzybeans]

12. Anyone who has oil as a public utility is apparently a leftist trouble

maker. C(rude oil)NN can't stand it when their oilmen aren't fat white men from Texas wearing a white suit and cowboy hat.

[wanpete]

13. wouldn't expect any less of the Conservative News Network.

[bpilgrim]

14. like right out of a Noam Chomsky text book

if the world unites against the neoCONs, one by one, there is no way we can win... did they plug that scenario into the computers :argh:

peace