Reuters Writer Lauds Hugo Chavez Vulgarities in Vulgar Story

June 10th, 2009 9:25 AM
If you heard the leader of a country cursing in public like a drunken sailor (or Randi Rhodes), you would think he is somewhat unbalanced. However, according to Reuters writer, Charlie Devereux, a foul mouth in a nation's leader is something to be lauded if that leader happens to be Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. In fact, Devereux even cites Chavez's foul mouth as a key to his success in a story that…

Chavez’s Penn, Or How Santa Monica High Should Hang Its Penn in Sham

April 26th, 2009 9:22 AM
Someone needs to sue Santa Monica High School for education malpractice on behalf of the ill-educated Sean Penn. I mean, the man is nearly illiterate and he certainly has no grasp on history, philosophy, or statecraft. But his wacko left-wing inanities aside, it is his illiteracy that seems the most lamentable. Oh, it isn't Rosie O'Donnell illiterate. Hers is a special class of insensibility all…

CBS’s Glor: Negative Fallout From Obama-Chavez Meeting ‘Imagined

April 20th, 2009 5:52 PM
While reporting on Obama meeting with anti-American Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the Summit of the Americas on Sunday’s CBS Evening News, fill-in anchor Jeff Glor asked political correspondent Jeff Greenfield about a potential negative reaction to the encounter: "Jeff, let's start talking about Venezuela and Hugo Chavez. Is there fallout from it, real or imagined?"Greenfield discounted any…

CBS’s Smith: Critics of Obama-Chavez Meeting Making ‘Mountain Out

April 20th, 2009 12:18 PM
On Monday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith discussed President Obama’s brief meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the Summit of the Americas with former Bush Press Secretary Dana Perino and former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers, wondering: "Have the critics of this photo-op made a mountain out of a molehill?" In a prior report on the meeting, correspondent Bill Plante…

How Will Media Report Chavez Calling Obama 'A Poor Ignoramus

March 22nd, 2009 10:34 PM
Barack Obama is hailed by sycophantic media members as one of the brightest men to ever be President, and was supposed to improve America's standing around the world.Yet, on Sunday, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez called Obama "a poor ignoramus" who "should read and study a little to understand reality." Given how impressed news members are with our new President, and how they regularly disparaged the…

CNN en Espanol Reporter: Chavez 'Epitome of the Populist Leader

March 13th, 2009 10:47 AM
Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez is "attractive to any journalist" because he's "the epitome of the populist leader" with "plain tastes" and "overwhelming charisma," CNN en español senior anchor Patricia Janiot told journalist Cristian Savio in a recent interview conducted in Spanish.Blogger and friend of NewsBusters Fausta Wertz has an English translation up at her blog.Below is an excerpt:

Call Out the Instigators

February 10th, 2009 1:55 AM
An article in yesterday's Washington Post, Jews in S. America Increasingly Uneasy, seemed to be an admirable attempt to expose a growing problem in South America. Unfortunately, on closer inspection, the article is a major disappointment.

Venezuela Mall Expropriation Update: AP's Latest Whitewash Headline an

December 23rd, 2008 12:01 AM
It's almost as if the Associated Press's Ian James and the wire service's headline writers think that Hugo Chavez's latest announcement that he plans to expropriate a huge, city block-sized, nearly complete shopping mall is sort of cute and quirky. James even gave it a "clever" name: drive-by socialism. My post at NewsBusters yesterday noted that James's initial report Sunday evening was short on…

Chavez Plans Expropriation of Nearly Complete Megamall; AP Avoids Key

December 21st, 2008 9:57 PM
Hugo Chavez has announced that he plans to expropriate a huge and nearly complete shopping mall in Caracas. The Spanish language web page of Constructora Sambil that describes the project (pictured at the right) says that it's 21,600 square meters. Chavez appears to have no idea what he will do with it. The Associated Press's Ian James apparently had no idea what to do with that shocking bit of…

The World (And the Media) Awaits Barack Obama

November 4th, 2008 8:52 AM

Venezuela Squeezed by Lower Output, Lower Prices; Only UK Paper Seems

October 14th, 2008 12:07 AM
Matt Drudge learned long ago that jumping across the pond in the late evening and perusing the British press is a way to get a head start on the news, and in some cases to get news that the American press is ignoring. The situation with Hugo Chavez in Venezuela is an example of the latter. If it happens, call it The Caracas Crackup -- The UK Telegraph is reporting that the inevitable…

NPR Touts Hugo Chavez, End to 'Free Market Fundamentalism

October 1st, 2008 10:51 PM

WaPo Reports Hugo Chavez Grant to CASA de Maryland... on Page D

August 5th, 2008 12:15 PM

Obama: Our Oil 'Addiction' Funds 'Both Sides' of the War on Terror

June 17th, 2008 9:17 AM