Parade Magazine's Chavez Smear

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Venezuelan president a terrorist funder?


On October 9, Parade magazine--the Sunday newspaper supplement with a circulation of 34.5 million, making it the country's most widely distributed magazine--published an inaccurate smear against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. The smear, appearing in the Q&A column "Walter Scott's Personality Parade," was a response to a letter writer who wanted to know "where Fidel Castro gets the dough to shore up his bankrupt regime." Scott's full answer was:
"In the wake of the collapse of the USSR, which bankrolled him to the tune of $4 billion a year, Castro has turned to Hugo Chavez, Marxist president of Venezuela, the world's fifth-largest oil exporter. In addition to shoring up Castro, he's funding revolutionaries and terrorists throughout Latin America."



Scott's two-sentence response managed to misrepresent several issues. Chavez is not a Marxist; asked about his politics by the left-wing publication CounterPunch (8/16/04), Chavez replied: "I don't believe in the dogmatic postulates of Marxist revolution. I don't accept that we are living in a period of proletarian revolutions.... Are we aiming in Venezuela today for the abolition of private property or a classless society? I don't think so." Chavez describes himself as a Bolivarian, a follower of the 19th Century Latin American independence leader Simon Bolivar.
And while Venezuela does provide discounted oil to Cuba, more than 20,000 Cuban doctors are sent to work in Venezuela in exchange; the relationship is mutually beneficial.

ACTION:
Please call on Parade Magazine to either provide evidence for its claim that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is "funding revolutionaries and terrorists throughout Latin America" or else issue a retraction of the unattributed charge.


CONTACT:
Personality Parade
[e-mail]

Parade Magazine
Lee Kravitz, editor
[e-mail]



If your local newspaper includes Parade in its Sunday edition, you might want to send your letter to them as well.

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2697

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1. Nominated and kick.

Some people can be so ignorant. It is staggering.

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2. Oh yes, equality and fairness is evil, pure evil according to the CR

liars!

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4. Please click

Recommend Topic for Greatest Page

CR = christian right?

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6. Yep

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3. Ahh, yes, "Personality Parade"...

What a great forum from which to misinform the troglodytes who uncritically swallow bushco propaganda.

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5. No offense to anyone but the number of times this has been posted

is waaaaaaaaaaay out of proportion to it's importance. Honestly, if some doofuses comments in a crappy sunday paper insert (one that makes The New York Post look like The New Yorker) even falls within the top 100 most important things any of us have to worry about then we must be getting pretty close to success.

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7. routine blatant dishonesty

mind you, it's everywhere: the quiz show 'jeopardy' even has tom ridge asking a question about 'homeland security' as if that's just mom and pop apple pie!....Therefore, if vast numbers of people emailed the parade editor (and suggested their lies are being noted, which one day will need to be explained, why they mislead the readership)....if anything, hugo chavez is a heroic figure, one of the few successful denial of the bush brutish agenda, then MAYBE their cowardlness will restore sense to their publication enough to stop them from outright lying at least!

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8. wow

Sorry to hear that. This is the first I've seen of it.
It is a huge forum. There are repeats. (which do get annoying at times).

Did you read the distribution numbers? Maybe it takes a lot of repetition to counter that. Media, ya know? Sorry to intrude.

edit: and if you would care to post links to some of the other threads, maybe we could all become enlightened?

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10. no offence but I can't repeat this enough

Breaking News
Published: Saturday, October 15, 2005

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=46388

INTELLIGENCE REPORT:
US "private military contractors" already in-country to "deal with" Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez

A classified intelligence report leaked to vheadline shows that the espionage ring has operating out of US Vice President Dick Cheney's office with the implicit approval from within the Bush administration

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9. Just posted about it on the...

...Doucheblog: www.counterbias.com/blog