FAIR.org busts NY Times on its triple-standards with Chavez and termlimits

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

While consumers of corporate U.S. media may recognize this as the common narrative against current official U.S. enemy Hugo Chávez, Ciccariello-Maher lets us know that this land where "weak-kneed apologists parade about under the banner of free press" really "is none other than New York City, the leader none other than Michael Bloomberg, and the newspaper none other than the New York Times." Cautioning "patience: we haven't even gotten to the hypocrisy part yet," Ciccariello-Maher then goes on to note how

"the New York Times has never been bashful about the crush it has on this tale of hypocrisy’s third character: the narco-terrorist president of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe. Uribe is currently engaged in an effort to change the Colombian constitution for a second time to allow his own re-election, doing so not through popular plebiscite, but rather indirect legislative vote. But not that you would know this from reading the press."

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[EFerrari]

1. Sing it.

:kick:

[Judi Lynn]

2. We've needed articles like this one for years. It got here not one minute too soon. Thanks. n/t

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

3. "Go to Venezuela, you idiot!"

That's what the wingnuts kept telling FAIR founder Jeff Cohen — so he did in 2005.

And he wrote about it here:
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/06/07/con06292.html

[UpInArms]

4. it's 'cause Venezuela has oil

and we have to make all the oil states Chavez look like a dictator Saddam Hussein