NYT Takes Cheap Shot at Bill O'Reilly in Hugo Chavez Golf Story

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"From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish. Silence! In addition to that, all citizens will be required to change their underwear every half-hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check. Furthermore, all children under 16 years old are now... 16 years old!"

The recent denunciation of the "bourgeois" sport of golf by Hugo Chavez, along with  the other bizarre eccentricities of the Venezuelan leader, certainly does evoke comparisons to the power crazed rebel leader, Esposito, in the Wooden Allen film, "Bananas." However, New York Times reporter, Simon Romero, in his story noting the golf denunciation by Chavez, goes out of his way to slam someone completely unrelated to this story---Bill O'Reilly.

First the latest in the long list of Chavez nuttiness:

CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chávez’s political movement has found a new target: golf. 

After a brief tirade against the sport by the president on national television last month, pro-Chávez officials have moved in recent weeks to shut down two of the country’s best-known golf courses, in Maracay, a city of military garrisons near here, and in the coastal city of Caraballeda.

“Let’s leave this clear,” Mr. Chávez said during a live broadcast of his Sunday television program. “Golf is a bourgeois sport,” he said, repeating the word “bourgeois” as if he were swallowing castor oil. Then he went on, mocking the use of golf carts as a practice illustrating the sport’s laziness.

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Would it be okay if the golfers play while wearing their underwear on the outside so as to make it less "bourgeois?"

Okay, so I think we now have yet another example of how Hugo Chavez is using this authoritarian (bordering on totalitarian) regime to enforce his personal pet peeves. Yet reporter Romero then veers into completely unrelated territory to take a cheap shot at Bill O'Reilly who has nothing to do with this story:

Backing up Mr. Chávez, a noted baseball fan, state media here have gone after golf.

Mario Silva, a Bill O’Reilly-esque host of an acidic commentary program called “The Razor Blade” on state television (imagine Mr. O’Reilly speaking against a background of portraits of Jesus, Mr. Chávez and Fidel Castro), told viewers that golf was simply a sport of the elite.

Imagine the New York Times sticking to the story instead of allowing a reporter to slam a Fox News host. Yeah, we understand the Times really really dislikes Fox News but to insert this hate into a story completely unrelated to the story is as nutty as, well, the vilification of golf by Hugo Chavez.

This is a case where the New York Times scored a hole in one...NOT!

—P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog.


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You are lousy

He must suck at golf therefore ban it so nobody can show how lousy he is.  Of course this is the leftist method of dealing with things but then, isn't that how the messiah wants to work too?  You don't like comment - make the comment bad and racist and you can ban it too.  We are heading down this path too folks and Chavez is only the Venezuelan version.   God help us!!

 

I have no use for liberal thinking - it is just so......passe.

said Fox News host

imagine 'said Fox News host' reporting on a story about IEDs in Iraq and implicating GE (his arch enemy) in a supposed FBI investigation - when there is absolutely no truth at all that GE is involved, O'Reilly's credibility is zero, but then it always was zero

Hugo and Hussein, following the path of destruction

The truth about Venezuela

yea It's BOR's fault, liberal logic on display .

Sounds like the NYT scored

Sounds like the NYT scored a hole-in-the-head.

Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for life. Give a man a fish, and he'll be back tomorrow asking for another. If you don't give him one, he'll lead a march demanding the fish to which he's "entitled." And the next day, Wolf Blitzer will be wondering why you hate people who can't fish. - Me

 

Why are the tags even more clipped than they used to be?

Lousy Journalism

There was no need for the O'Reilly comment. This is just another case of why the NYT is going into the crapper.

Semper suprene nitens

North Carolina now has the worst government money can buy. 

Sure there is

The going broke NYT has to feed their loony toon leftards in every story. It's all they have left.

Well, I've watched that show - and don't buy it...

The scary thing is that I've actually watched "La Hojilla" on Venezolana de Television - mainly out of boredom and amusement.  From the NYT reporter's description, it appears that he could not be bothered to do as I have done and watch this showcase of ignorance. 

For one thing, they have lots of little trinkets all over the set on this tacky show.  I don't recall ever seeing any images of Jesus on the set (though I suppose it's possible that they brought a crucifix there at one time), but they always have several Chavez "action figures" scattered about.  In general, the "hosts" and "guests" are nothing more than a bunch of red shirt and beret wearing thugs who do nothing but criticize the opposition media and cheer on Chavez.  The hosts of this show are on all evening and are generally unprofessional, catering to the uneducated.  And, they bear absolutely no resemblance to O'Reilly. 

I'd be shocked if this reporter even watched "La Hojilla" - Simon probably heard about it from a friend of his. 

Thus, the NYT's comment was nothing more than a cheap shot at O'Reilly.  What's worse is that it's yet another example of these reporters not bothering to check their facts and (as a result) getting things wrong.  It happens so often that much of what we hear out of the MSM is no less BS than old Soviet propaganda.  

Crazy and Angry White Losers.

Or you could just shorten it to NYT.

ACA 

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Quoted from: 'Acaiguana notes from the Underground' (Soon to be at theaters near you)

Chavez walks into a bar with

Chavez walks into a bar with the parrot on his shoulder. The bartender ask "Where did you get that?" The parrots answers "In Cuba, the woods are full of them!"

Semper suprene nitens

North Carolina now has the worst government money can buy. 

A bear and a three legged dog walk into a bar.

The bartender says:  :"What is this?  A joke?"

ACA 

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Quoted from: 'Acaiguana notes from the Underground' (Soon to be at theaters near you)

I am proud to say that even though I still remember...

my U.S. History professor telling his class, back in 1957, that the NY Times was known as the "newspaper of record", I still, to this day, have never touched a copy of the "Slimes", let alone read anything from it.  Jim Webster

              

                       He looks constipated. Poor guy needs an enema.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Handicap?

I wonder if any journalist at Chavez's press conference was tempted to ask el Presidente what his handicap is. That might have been a firing (squad) offense.

Our own el Presidente by the way, keeps his handicap a state secret along with the SAT scores etc. As with the SAT scores and the other data, we take that to mean the numbers are really, really bad.

A "State Run" TV show with portraits of Jesus, Chavez and Castro

Why pick O'Reilly when it's Keith Obamamann who fits that description?

Keith Obamamann is the one who's show is an appendage of the Obama administration, which models itself after far leftist regimes and is friendly with Castro and Chavez.

I'm not seeing how O'Reilly fits that description. This NYT attack is just a lazy, ad-hominem attack at the left's favorite target.

The parrot said, 'that's

The parrot said, 'that's the biggest piece of crap I ever made.'

As for the NYSlimes comparing a vicious leftwing government run tv program run by a commie ideologue to Bill O'Reilly, that is the height of chutzpah and arrogance. One may not always agree with Bill on issues but he would never talk up a dictatorship of the proletariat in soft or hard forms.