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Last Friday, in a post titled "Maybe This will get the MSM to Stop Giving Chavez a Free Ride," I speculated that the love-fest between mainstream media and Hugo Chavez would come to an abrupt halt now that Chavez had attacked MSM by shutting down his country's second-largest TV station as a result of that station's opposition to him.
I documented the pre-existing lovefest MSM had shown for Chavez via listing the most recent Google News headlines for him - which came out before the news that he was shutting down that station. As I said last week of those headlines:
Can you believe how favorable all these headlines are? "Create unified party" ... "popular origin" ... "backs Ecuador" ... "demands apology from US ambassador" (those rotten US ambassadors! how dare they assert drug traffic is up in Venezuela!) ... "person of the year poll" ... "Archbishop" ... even, "Let's now make friends with Venezuela!"
(Click here for a saved copy of last week's search.)
Yes, last week there was a headline, "Archbishop Hugo Chavez?" Now it's a week later. Has the tenor of the headlines changed? Let's look at today's most recent headlines, which came after the news that Chavez was shutting down that opposition TV station.
(Click here for a saved copy of this week's search.)
You'd think they were writing about an entirely different person! Look how pejorative the headlines are now: "selection of a political newcomer as his new vice president" ... "abruptly fires his vice president" ... "plans one grand socialist party, led by him" ... "double-digit inflation" ... "turning stomachs" ... "Iran, Syria, North Korea and Venezuela under Hugo Chavez" ... and now, all of a sudden, Chavez is associated with GWB: "The shared political stylings of George W. Bush and Hugo Chavez"! Since MSM now dislikes Chavez, they can at least use him to tar GWB.
This documents that MSM's slant on the topics they cover can turn around on a dime. Once they saw themselves being threatened, all of a sudden the headlines changed. All of a sudden now, Chavez is a bad leader, someone who should be opposed, as opposed to last week, when Chavez was someone who should be supported by all right-thinking people who have been brainwashed by drinking the MSM cool-aid.
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#2How can you be so cruel when Joe Kennedy is actively campaigning for and promoting Citgo’s cheap oil, to heat the homes of the elderly, from our friends in Venezuela?
(But I predict that he’ll never have to worry about heat; there will be more than enough for him and his whole family in Hades.)
Are you kidding me?? Have you gone without heat or had to choose between heat and food??? Obviously not. Our "president" doesn't care who goes without anything as long as he and his cronies are comfortable.
Believe me..our fearless leader's perks as well as those of his peers come from "friends" who are a lot more evil and have no interest in those who are working their butts off just to keep their homes at 60 degrees.
You all should have to trade places with a working poor family for a couple of weeks and we'll see how fast you change your tune. (yes..believe it or nor poor people work also).
I'm a middle class working mother with a husband who works two jobs and believe me it's not easy to pay 500.00 (minimum) a month for oil (with the heat kept at 62 degrees).
I don't care who helps me heat my house and keep my children warm considering that the price of oil is so high simply so Bush doesn't ruin the the economy of his "friends" in Saudi ...oh yes...the richest people in the world. Hmmmmm...there's oil in Iraq too isn't there??
Think about others before you spout off about things you know nothing about.
CB
#3Au contraire, Cathy!
My family in Virginia lived in a three-storey home where there was only one wood-burning stove to heat the entire house. Since it was a very old house, there was no insulation.
Recently, my stepmother, who is a senior citizen, and I had no heat because her home is all electric and she lost electricity during an ice storm.
I know what it is like to be cold. I know what it is like not to have the money to pay the heating bills - or any bills for that matter.
I'm also not happy about the Saudi situation.
However, I would not accept oil from a nation that is headed by a man who would love to destroy this country, and is in the throes of forced nationalization of corporations which might soon include Citgo.
There are other ways to get help for heating through social services, churches, and the private sector.
Joe Kennedy's ads are patronizing and smacks of special interest, too. Don't kid yourself.
Oh Vik!
How can you be so cruel when Joe Kennedy is actively campaigning for and promoting Citgo's cheap oil, to heat the homes of the elderly, from our friends in Venezuela?
Call the toll-free hot-line number, 877-JOE4OIL, or 877-563-4645 to put some heat on.
(But I predict that he'll never have to worry about heat; there will be more than enough for him and his whole family in Hades.)
A.M.