Chavez is not going quietly

[Judi Lynn]

4. When I saw your source was the Wash. Post, I opted to click on it,

and of course wasn't even slightly suprised to see Jackson Diehl scrawled it.

We ALL knew so long ago who this man is, no one living would want to waste his time reading his silliness. Clearly he assumes everyone must be dumber than he is and can't see through him.

An article published SIX years ago, when all of us had known about him for ages:

April 18, 2006

Jackson Diehl: Worse Than Page Six?
The Washington Post vs. Venezuela
by ERIC WINGERTER

Anyone looking to keep up to date with the current talking points for the Venezuelan opposition need only follow the writings of Jackson Diehl in the Washington Post. As deputy editorial page editor, Diehl drafts the un-bylined editorials about President Hugo Chavez.

When Diehl writes a particularly unsubstantiated column, the Post publishes his work on the right-hand side of the opinion page, thus minutely distancing his ravings from the official opinion of the paper.

Over the years, progressive Venezuela watchers have come to regard Jackson Diehl Op-Eds as a sounding board for the urban legends and gossip promoted by Venezuela’s well-connected opposition leaders–sort of a Page Six for anti-Chavez innuendo. His columns have given mainstream credence to the ideas that the democratically elected president is actually a dictator, that a media law banning explicit sex on television is an act of political censorship, and that important literacy and health care programs are nothing more than a cynical attempt to buy votes from Venezuela’s unwashed masses.

The power of a Post editorial is significant, and it is partly due to the work of Mr. Diehl that the storylines above, although easily refuted, have framed the discussion of Venezuela in the U.S. press.

Diehl’s propensity for not letting facts get in the way of an anti-Chavez rant have often drawn the man well-merited and well documented rebuke.

More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2006/04/18/the-washington-post-vs-venezuela/

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