WSJ: Chavez the Dictator Won By Cheating and Stacking the Deck

[stickdog]

Replace Chavez with Bush and think of Jeb and Katherine when they cry about these supposedly heinous voting irregularities for a good laugh.

http://www.petroleumworld.com/Ed081904.htm

WSJ: Chavez's "Victory"

August 17, 2004; Page A18 - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez claimed victory early yesterday in his battle to defeat Sunday's recall referendum. The opposition is crying foul, citing a litany of referendum irregularities. They may be right, but Mr. Chavez made it clear some time ago that he is not leaving office. His democratic opponents have few avenues for recourse.

Sunday's vote is a metaphor for the sorry state of Venezuela's "democracy." Mr. Chavez controls the military, the Supreme Court, the Congress, the National Electoral Council (CNE), the state-owned oil monopoly and the intelligence services. There is no balance of power, no transparency, and Venezuela is fast becoming an authoritarian state.

Equally worrying is that when the oil-rich Mr. Chavez claimed victory, he claimed it for all of the Americas, reinforcing his commitment to spread revolution on the continent. With Fidel Castro as his closest ally, Mr. Chavez is a dangerous presence in the region.

Mr. Chavez's claims of a "landslide" victory are not supported by independent evidence of how the voting was going. All day long Sunday, exit polls were reporting a 16 to 20 point margin in favor of removing the president. As the Journal's Jose de Cordoba and David Lunhow reported from Caracas yesterday, the opinion polling firm of Penn, Shoen and Berland Associates had the vote to remove Mr. Chavez at 59% in early exit polls. A number of other exit polls throughout the day showed similar results.

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You have to read the rest of this tripe. It's too ironic for words!

[jpgray]

1. A little projection from the WSJ Editorial Office

"...the sorry state of Venezuela's "democracy." Mr. Chavez controls the military, the Supreme Court, the Congress, the National Electoral Council (CNE), the state-owned oil monopoly and the intelligence services. There is no balance of power, no transparency, and Venezuela is fast becoming an authoritarian state."

Now just insert "Mr. Bush" for "Mr. Chavez" and read that again. :D

[Jack Rabbit]

2. This is from the same newspaper that gave us the term "bourgeois riot"

. . . to describe Republican Congressional staffers descending on Miami to stop the recount of votes on November 22, 2000.



I still want to know what Tom Pyle, Mr. DeLay's political analyst, is doing in that picture and what Mr. DeLay knew about his activities.

[WMliberal]

3. tom pyle almost got in a fight with my mayor in 2002

there were going to be charges of assault on the mayor, but they were dropped when it turned out that mr. pyle broke the law being at the political rally in the first place.
ah, the ethics of the DeLay office.

[tom_paine]

8. Yep the stench of Totalitarianism is all over these Bushevik Monsters

And of course, projection is the stock in trade of Tyrants, Totalitarians, and their unquestioning, unthinking followers.

When I think of this WSJ article, indeed, when I think of all the thousands of projections the Busheviks have taken straight from their black hearts and blamed us for doing what THEY are doing/have done, I can only think of the SS guard kicking the Jew in the yard of Auschwitz

"Filthy Jew! (kick) Stop (kick) oppressing (kick kick) the German (kick) People (kick) and trying (kick kick) to take over (kick) the world (kick kick kick)!"

Which, stripping away the differing degrees of violence in their actiosn is EXACTLY what the Busheviks do.

EXACTLY.

The only differences between the Busheviks and the Nazis mindsets' is overt racism and the use of violence.

[WMliberal]

4. haha

check out the latest breaking news. the polling firm the WSJ holds in such high esteem is now in hot water for those very exit polls!

[stickdog]

6. This firm is known for trying to rig exit polling all over Latin America

http://www.narconews.com/universaled1.html

[Bhaisahab]

5. Expect more such articles November 3 n/t

[WyLoochka]

7. WSJ reprinted in Petroleum World

Claiming no transparency for the landslide that Chavez Frias heaped on those fossil fuel thieves who think that oil everywhere belongs to them?

Do they not understand how this absurdity provides just about all the transparency one needs to know, in your bones, that the people of Venezuela, even though deprived of education for generations by the oiligarchy, still put 2 and 2 together, rose up and successfully claimed and defended the ownership of their own oil with their votes?

[Larkspur]

9. Does WSJ stand for "White Supremacist Journal"?

Sure sounds like it in this op ed.

Chavez built a politcal base that is much larger than his opponents, and unlike some of our Dem leaders, Chavez has not betrayed his base and knows how to energize it.