Reply #2: Never insult the barber while in the chair [View All]

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Unfortunately, the reporters and editorial choices for the hard news section of the paper take enormous risks when they present the situation in L.A. as it really is.
I'm not surprised at the party line taken by the opinion columnists. Drive thru Miami with an pro-Castro or pro-Chavez bumper-sticker on your car and it will probably become a pock-marked, blown out hulk within a day. The paper runs the risk of being fire-bombed, shot up, generally sabotaged, or every car in the parking lot flat-tired or window-smashed.
Ross-Lehtinen can say things like "someone should assassinate Castro, or anybody that oppresses their people" with impunity and get praised by much of the community.
The thing is, Chavez isn't accurately a leftist, he's a Bolivarian, which is not a communist ideology. He supports free-market. But radical, reactionary ideologues never let things like facts ruin their fun.