Venezuela takes yet another step towards becoming a Sean Penn Paradise. Hugo Chavez had Guillermo Zuloaga, president of Globovision Television, arrested for allegedly making offensive comments about Chavez, a crime in Hugo’s fiefdom these days. And it’s not the only significant person now in prison for insulting the President-for-Life, either …
…Try to find a single American democrat who doesn’t find such arrests perfectly acceptable. Try to find just one. Run this story past a few of your progressive friends and listen as they spin away about how the guy must have done something wrong or Chavez wouldn’t have had him arrested. Listen as they tell you that such criticism isn’t real journalism, and such critics aren’t real journalists. Why, they foment violence! Some criticism Just. Can’t. Be. Allowed. And when your progressive friends make these arguments and they will look them closely in the face. That’s the face of evil in a totalitarian mind. Ordinary people who find such extraordinary tyranny so perfectly acceptable, desirable even, and the next thing you know 6 million of their countrymen are dead and they simply cannot understand why the world despises them. They had good intentions, you see. They were trying to help people.
What does Tom Brokaw think of this? How about Perky Katie Couric? Is The New York Times sending someone down to aid…
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