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sabrina 1

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11. We do look for sources that appear to have far more than a pretext of objectivity.
Sat Dec 29, 2012, 06:06 AM
Dec 2012

We've been watching the elections in Venezuela for the past decade and have noted that despite the best efforts of the far Right wing nut jobs in Ven and here, the Venezuelan people continued to reelect the man they believe has worked for THEM.

I will trust the people of Venezuela who I imagine know a lot more about the state of their country than any media outlet. But of course their repeated choice of Chavez seems to say that the sources in the OP are far more objective than any of the Right Wing anti-Chavez garbage we see in the Western Propaganda machine we call the 'media' here.

The Venezuelan people have spoken for themselves. You are wasting your time.

What really is odd to me though having watched all of this since 2002 that back then there was not a Democrat on any Internet Forum that I participated on or just read, who was not fully supportive of Chavez and the people of Venezuela. I keep wondering where these anti-Chavez people came from, starting around 2004 on Democratic forums. There were always plenty of them on Right Wing forums, FR airc, always hated Chavez eg.

The only people who opposed Chavez and all the other democratic Latin American leaders were Right Wingers. Only here in the US do you see this kind of anti-Chavez garbage. The man has worked miracles in that country which was devastated by right wing policies for so long and there is nothing you can do to try to change that fact.

I loved it when Right Wingers saw him get reelected every time and were thoroughly frustrated after believing the stupid propaganda they got from Murdoch's propaganda machine. Chavez sure got under the skin of the far right because he cared about people and that is a 'commie' idea they could never understand.

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