Glenn Beck "cries" and says goodbye to Hugo Chavez

[qh4dotcom]

Shedding fake tears, Glenn Beck and company "paid tribute” to the deceased Venezuelan president and delivered a sarcastic and mocking eulogy.

This is funny as hell...and no, I don't trust Beck

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/08/watch-glenn-becks-hysterical-and-heartfelt-goodbye-to-hugo-chavez/

[kcchiefs6465]

'Glenn Beck'

Et tu, Brute?

[emazur]

At least Beck mockingly sheds tears over Chavez - the leading story on lewrockwell.com actually seems to lament his loss. Some people over there seem to think that just as long as you're against the American empire, then you're not such a bad guy:
http://lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis331.html

Chavez was a "caudillo" of the old Latin American model: an oversized, boisterous, macho personality loved by women; a man enraptured by is own voice, impatience with the rules of democratic government, indifferent to the needs of commerce and industry. For journalists, what a delightful change after the EU’s mind-numbing politicians.

Hate "Robin Hood" Chavez or love him, the fact remains, he managed to cut Venezuela’s shocking poverty rate by half in the last ten years. He used Venezuela’s oil bonanza to build schools, hospitals, clinics, low-cost housing, universities. His government seems to have been fairly honest by usual Latin American standards. He started no wars, sent no drones to kill people, avoided torture. Chavez won 13 of 14 elections, fair and square, according to foreign observers. Venezuela’s voting system proved more reliable that Ohio’s or Florida’s.

But the feisty colonel could not resist relentlessly criticizing the United States and its allies, daring to denounce the Yankee "Empire" – which is not supposed to exist. Chavez voiced the endemic anti-Americanism found across Latin America that continues though the era of direct US military intervention and occupation seems to be over.

[Occam's Banana]

At least Beck mockingly sheds tears over Chavez - the leading story on lewrockwell.com actually seems to lament his loss. Some people over there seem to think that just as long as you're against the American empire, then you're not such a bad guy:

That's because it's so much easier to hate the tyrants who actually have their boots on *your* throat (as opposed to the tyrants who have their boots on *other* people's throats).

It's the same reason I hate American oligarchs more than I hate Venezuelan (or Iranian, or Russian, or Chinese, or etc.) oligarchs.

There is also the fact that Chavez was a tinpot whose depredations were, for the most part, limited to Venezuela. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of American tinpots:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/133329.html

Hugo Chávez may have been oppressive, but at least he wasn't a lapdog for Washington like so many other heads of state. The world would be a much more free and decentralized place with more anti-imperialist "rogue" nations. And it is important to put his depredations in perspective. Bush, Obama, Blair, Hollande, etc., have caused more death and suffering in the world than Chávez ever did. And this should be no surprise.It is often the less authoritarian states that afflict more humans more seriously, even if those afflicted the worst happen to be foreigners. That is because the most "free" countries are also often the most imperialistic. This is what Hans-Hermann Hoppe calls the "paradox of imperialism." States that allow more domestic freedom have more wealth to tap to fund more conquests and interventions.

Considering the chaos, terror, and wanton murderous destruction perpetrated on a daily basis by the West upon its recipients of "liberation," the evil of Chávez is dwarfed by that of the governments of the "free world."

[AuH20]

That's because it's so much easier to hate the tyrants who actually have their boots on *your* throat (as opposed to the tyrants who have their boots on *other* people's throats).

It's the same reason I hate American oligarchs more than I hate Venezuelan (or Iranian, or Russian, or Chinese, or etc.) oligarchs.

There is also the fact that Chavez was a tinpot whose depredations were, for the most part, limited to Venezuela. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of American tinpots:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/133329.html

Not only that. Our tyrants are shrouded in relative anonymnity for the most part, as opposed to such a self-promoter as Chavez.