Weekend Captionfest II

November 24th, 2007 4:00 PM
Hugo Chavez and Mahmound Ahmadinejad attended the OPEC summit, where they said the fall of the dollar is a sign that "the U.S. empire is coming down."

LAT Distorts Chronology of Juan Carlos/Hugo Chavez Incident

November 17th, 2007 8:17 PM

Sean Penn: Hugo Chavez Is 'Much More Positive' for Venezuela Than Nega

November 16th, 2007 4:06 PM
Dictator-groupie Sean Penn told Australia's The Age that Venezuelan autocrat Hugo Chavez is “much more positive for Venezuela than he is negative” and the Chavez-crafted constitution is “a very beautiful document.” Yes, that's the same leader who is a student of the Robert Mugabe School of Economics, shut down a TV station that criticized him and just installed himself El Presidente for life. …

Reuters Calls Socialist Dictator Chavez a 'Folksy President

November 15th, 2007 11:25 AM
Folksy can accurately describe many a politician, foreign or domestic. But a Fidel Castro-loving, Bush-hating, suppresser of free speech who has carte blanche to rule by decree? If you ask Reuters, well, yes. (h/t Taranto's November 15 Best of the Web).The November 13 article in question by writer Enrique Andres Pretel dealt with how Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is demanding an apology from Spain's…

NYT’s Love Letter to Hugo Chavez and Oil Socialism – Or Is It

November 4th, 2007 11:02 PM
New York Times Magazine published a rather fascinating article Sunday about the rise of nationalized oil throughout the world. Predictably, it initially came off as a love letter to Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and his new brand of oil socialism. Yet, if you dig deeper - unfortunately offshore deeper in a very lengthy piece - author Tina Rosenberg ended up rather dissatisfied with "petrocracy," and,…

Scarborough Still on O'Reilly's Case

September 28th, 2007 7:09 AM
Joe Scarborough is still trying to wring mileage out of bashing Bill O'Reilly over his Sylvia's comments. After calling the "Factor" host a "moron" yesterday, the "Morning Joe" host was back at it today.

Collins of the NYT: Chavez Daffy But Bush Bad

August 23rd, 2007 6:30 AM

Krauthammer's Wisdom on 'Malevolent Clown' on Display at 'Today

July 27th, 2007 7:56 AM
Scanning the columns at Townhall.com is part of my early-morning routine, and it was at about 6 A.M. today that I read Charles Krauthammer's "Obama Bombing." I marveled at how perfectly the Pulitzer Prize-winning author had captured the essence of Hugo Chavez, calling the Venezuelan thug "a malevolent clown."Krauthammer's words obviously impressed Matt Lauer, too. For barely an hour later, I was…

The WaPo Loooves Those Chavistas

July 8th, 2007 9:07 PM

BusinessWeek’s Spin on Socialism: ‘Business has never been better

June 19th, 2007 6:26 PM

WashTimes: Ecuador, Bolivia Join Hugo Chavez in Media Crackdown

May 31st, 2007 10:37 AM

LA Times Writer Defends Hugo Chavez Closure Of TV Station

May 30th, 2007 7:51 PM

Media Offered Bland Headlines on Chavez TV Shutdown Story

May 29th, 2007 5:23 PM
"The Anchoress" had an excellent item yesterday about how some news wires are downplaying the authoritarian, anti-free speech nature of Hugo Chavez's move to shut down a private television network that often criticized the Venezuelan thugocrat. She notes that the bland headlines give little reason for the casual reader to sit up and take notice:The initial headlines are either unclear or they’re…

NB-TV Alert: Clay Waters on NY Times' Hugo Chavez Reporting

May 29th, 2007 3:50 PM
Clay Waters, Editor of the MRC's TimesWatch site and a NewsBusters contributor was a guest this afternoon on the Fox News Channel's "Your World with Neil Cavuto," which airs weekdays at 4 p.m. EDT. The topic: New York Times coverage of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez.TimesWatch.org is dedicated to documenting and exposing the liberal political agenda of the New York Times.Video (3:39): Real (2.67 MB…