Chavez successor falls short

By Nick Miroff, Published: January 31

On aisle seven, among the diapers and fabric softener, the socialist dreams of the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez looked as ragged as the toilet paper display.  Employees at the Excelsior Gama supermarket had set out a load of extra-soft six-roll packs so large that it nearly blocked the aisle. To stock the shelves with it would have been pointless. Soon word spread that the long-awaited rolls had arrived, and despite a government-imposed limit of one package per person, the checkout lines stretched all the way to the decimated dairy case in the back of the store.    “This is so depressing,” said Maria Plaza, 30, a lawyer, an hour and a half into her wait. “Pathetic.”…..To Read More….

My Take - I find it interesting that it's Chavez's successor who is failing, not Chavez. All this was as predictable as day is light and night is dark. Chavez was a blithering socialist idiot [are there any other kind of socialists?] and his successor is just as dumb. Yet, it would appear that Sean Penn thinks Chevez was just wonderful, no matter how much economic misery his people suffer under programs he instituted and are being followed by his successors saying;

“He’s one of the most important forces we’ve had on this planet, and I’ll wish him nothing but that great strength he has shown over and over again. I do it in love, and I do it in gratitude,"  “I just want to say, from my very American point of view, of my friend President Chavez: It is only possible to be so inspiring as he is, as a two-way street. And he would say that his inspiration is the people.”

Penn went on to say that calling Chavez a dictator should be an imprisonable offence.  Is he a blithering idiot, and is he alone?   Danny Glover says; 

“He was not only my friend, he was my brother,” …“It’s difficult for a leader like him to exist in these times. His vision for humanity and the world can only be compared to that of leaders like Nelson Mandela. He was a great man and I cried when he died.”….. “I join with millions … of freedom-loving people around the world, in hope for a rewarding future for the democratic and social development charter of the Bolivarian Revolution,” he said in a statement. “We all embraced Hugo Chávez as a social champion of democracy, material development, and spiritual wellbeing.”

Millions of freedom loving people?   But he isn’t alone in his misguided admiration for Chavez, even Harry Bellefonte is an admirer and there is a substantial number of immigrants and blacks that admire these entertainers for their support of Chavez. 

“Mark Sawyer, Professor of African-American Studies and Political Science, and the Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics at UCLA, tells theGrio. “In fact, I believe they have gained in the African-American community for being in a tradition that includes figures from entertainment like Paul Robeson and Josefine Baker, who spoke truth to power, and embraced sometimes unpopular beliefs in the U.S.”  “In 2007, Sawyer conducted a survey in Los Angeles where he discovered that Chavez was actually more popular among African-American Angelenos than George Bush. He equates this conclusion not simply to dissatisfaction with Bush, rather Chavez’s embrace of his black identity, his critique of U.S. imperialism, and his outspoken support for the poor, all of which are longstanding political beliefs within this demographic.”

Oliver Stone made a film that is categorized as a love fest to Chavez.   These same Hollywood mental cases are the same type that love Castro, and hate the very country and system that gave then lifestyles they could have never imagined if they lived in Cuba or Nicaragua.  They rail against every flaw of capitalism and American capitalism in particular, but think dystopian socialist policies are just fine for the third world, and want the same policies implemented here. 

Well, it they really thought it was so great there, why don’t Penn, Glover, Belafonte and Stone live in what they seem to think are utopian socialists states instead of here?  Here there’s plenty of food, gasoline, electricity, heat, air conditioning and everything that makes life very nice, but apparently they seem to think this is living in a state of horror. 

The question that should be asked and answered is this.  Are they merely stupid?   Actually I think Hollywood must be an asylum filled with insane degenerates.   They think every murderous socialist thug is a hero of the people, no matter how many suffer and die at their hands, and they think giving a child molester like Woody Allen a special award is just fine. 

What was Hollywood’s reaction to an effort to bring Roman Polanski to justice, who;

“in March 1977, film director RomanPolanski was arrested and charged in Los Angeles with five offenses against Samantha Gailey, a 13-year-old girl– rape by use of drugs, perversion, sodomy, lewd and lascivious act upon a child under 14, and furnishing a controlled substance to a minor.

At his arraignment Polanski pleaded not guilty to all charges,  but later accepted a plea bargain whose terms included dismissal of the five initial charges in exchange for a guilty plea to the lesser charge of engaging in unlawful sexual intercourse.

Whoopi Goldberg proclaimed “it wasn't really "rape-rape." Harvey Weinstein dismissed it out of hand, calling the rape "this so-called rape."  Did everyone in Hollywood feel this way?  Probably not, but which of them stood up to vilify Polanski and his defenders? 

Where do these people get their values?  Is it possible that these people are worse than stupid?  Is it possible they're stupid and insane?