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Chomskyite intellectual Hugo Chavez receives a rave review in the SMH:

Brandishing a copy of Noam Chomsky’s Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance, the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, has cemented his reputation as Washington’s chief irritant with a fiery performance at the United Nations.

In a 15-minute address to the annual gathering of international leaders in New York on Wednesday, Mr Chavez said he could still “smell sulfur” left behind by the “devil”, George Bush, who had addressed the chamber 24 hours before.

His speech, which veered between a rousing appeal for a better world and a florid denunciation of the United States, included the claim that the US President thought he was in a western where people shot from the hip ...

Many diplomats in the vaulted chamber laughed and clapped.

UPDATE. VamPus observes:

En kommentar hos hablog gjorde VamPus oppmerksom på Blairs lov ... Chavez anbefalte forvøvrig forfatteren Noam Chomsky.

Exactly.

Posted by Tim B. on 09/21/2006 at 09:00 PM

  1. The last time we had a President who thought he was in a Western, we brought down the USSR, Hughie…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 09 21 at 09:26 PM • permalink

  2. A White House spokesman said that Chavez’s performance did not merit comment. U.S. Ambassador John R. Bolton said the speech was “insulting” and called it a “comic-strip approach to international affairs.”

                      -From L.A. Times

    Posted by Bonmot on 2006 09 21 at 09:40 PM • permalink

  3. UPDATE. VamPus observes:
      En kommentar hos hablog gjorde…

    Oh sure, we can ALL read whatever the hell language that is, thanx

    Posted by Shaky Barnes on 2006 09 21 at 09:46 PM • permalink

  4. Shouldn’t the headline say “Reputations”?

    Posted by Jim Treacher on 2006 09 21 at 09:50 PM • permalink

  5. Chomskyite intellectual Hugo Chavez receives a rave review in the SMH

    And then the nanny brought in milk and cookies, and then they all had a nap.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 09 21 at 09:50 PM • permalink

  6. Charles Johnson is right about this: giving loons like Chavez and Ahmedinajad their full spotlight at the UN is one of the best election ads the Republicans could ask for.  Sit back and enjoy open-mike night at the loony-bin on the Hudson.

    Posted by cuckoo on 2006 09 21 at 09:52 PM • permalink

  7. Many diplomats in the vaulted chamber laughed and clapped.

    Which is what passes for a “UN action” these days.

    Posted by rinardman on 2006 09 21 at 09:54 PM • permalink

  8. Although I can’t read Norweigan, I went to the VamPus site and, after the passage that mentions Blairs lov, there is the following in English:

    “the ongoing process by which the world’s multiple idiocies are becoming one giant, useless force.”

    Posted by ErnieG on 2006 09 21 at 10:03 PM • permalink

  9. Cool! Now we can all go to Chavez’s jerkwater country and publicly call him the devil and criticize his government without getting arrested or shot!

    Am I right?

    Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 09 21 at 10:11 PM • permalink

  10. Jeez, I suspected it, but it’s been proven: the SMH has a particularly stupid type of leftie on its staff. I watched Chavez’s diatribe with a bunch of red luvvies and they were all very embarrassed.

    Posted by slatts on 2006 09 21 at 10:35 PM • permalink

  11. Isn’t Chomsky dead?
    ;^)

    Posted by andycanuck on 2006 09 21 at 10:45 PM • permalink

  12. I’m an Australske!  I like that, it sounds cool.  :-)

    From VamPus’s blog entry:
    “Chavez anbefalte forvøvrig forfatteren Noam Chomsky. Nuff said.”

    hehe, I like this Norwegian guy!  He sounds like a straight-shooter.

    Posted by ekb87 on 2006 09 21 at 10:55 PM • permalink

  13. I’d like to give Nancy Pelosi’s “thug” response a little more credit than “trying to spin this so the Democrats don’t get hurt by Chavez’s idiocy”.

    Not a lot, but yes, a little.

    Posted by Warmongering Lunatic on 2006 09 21 at 10:58 PM • permalink

  14. So, now we’re all agreed they are a bunch of lunatics, which planet will be designated the asylum?

    Posted by spyder on 2006 09 21 at 11:04 PM • permalink

  15. Many diplomats in the vaulted chamber laughed and clapped.

    Umm, shouldn’t that be ” laughed OR clapped”?

    Posted by entropy on 2006 09 21 at 11:05 PM • permalink

  16. 15, Entropy, its “laughed because they had terminal clap”

    Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 09 21 at 11:24 PM • permalink

  17. And monkeys often do both at the same time, too, entropy.

    Posted by andycanuck on 2006 09 21 at 11:42 PM • permalink

  18. #14

    Uranus?

    Posted by gnasher on 2006 09 22 at 12:06 AM • permalink

  19. Francis Fukuyama did a piece on Chavez last month.
    He is running Venezuela terribly, but while oil prices are high it doesn’t matter.

    Posted by daddy dave on 2006 09 22 at 12:15 AM • permalink

  20. I didn’t understand the update.  Did he just call Noam and Hugo “fat”?

    Posted by blogagog on 2006 09 22 at 01:49 AM • permalink

  21. And John Bolton is not diplomatic enough for the UN?

    Posted by Conrad on 2006 09 22 at 02:18 AM • permalink

  22. Clearly Chavez can’t be wrong with getting the facts from Chomsky…

    “Mr Chavez said he could still “smell sulfur” left behind by the “devil”, George Bush…”

    Bush should rip a deadlier fart (WMD) and kill Chavez.

    Posted by The Best Infidel on 2006 09 22 at 03:29 AM • permalink

  23. #1, Oh Richard, that was wonderful.  Wiped that frown right off my face.  Thanks, doll.

    Posted by saltydog on 2006 09 22 at 03:35 AM • permalink

  24. The UN is a total waste of time and money, well past it’s use by date.

    Posted by Howzat on 2006 09 22 at 03:50 AM • permalink

  25. I reckon that Stephen Colbert should employ the latest Latin American comedy sensation, Hugo Chavez, to help write his next Presidential roast!

    Couldn’t be any less funny than the last one he did…Chavez certainly got more laughs…

    Posted by Jack Lacton on 2006 09 22 at 04:50 AM • permalink

  26. Now, for the hard question.

    Once all is said and done, will Venezuala be the 51st star on our flag? or will we keep it as a represented territory like Puerto Rico?

    And, when we do finally get around to expanding our field of stars, what pattern should be used?

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 09 22 at 05:36 AM • permalink

  27. Shouldn’t Bush and his party be screaming bloody outrage? Why aren’t his supporters rioting down the streets, calling for fatwas on Chavez and death to the infidel Venezuelens!

    BTW, this one’s been around a while, so you may have come across it. A modern classic, methinks. Anyone who hasn’t seen a YAAFM cartoon, link now, you’re missing out on a beauty!

    Posted by Dminor on 2006 09 22 at 07:31 AM • permalink

  28. Shouldn’t Bush and his party be screaming bloody outrage?

    No! All Americans should be, not just one party or one subsection!

    Unfortunatly, treason has become so trendy that none dare call it treason anymore.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 09 22 at 08:08 AM • permalink

  29. Pelosi and Rangel did the right thing, for whatever reason, even if it was based on polls. At least their sense of self preservation outweighs their BDS.

    Posted by Latino on 2006 09 22 at 08:50 AM • permalink

  30. “[Chavez] is running Venezuela terribly, but while oil prices are high it doesn’t matter.”

    My motto of the day:

    SCREW CHAVEZ AND IRAN:
    SUPPORT NUCLEAR POWER!

    Posted by Urbs in Horto on 2006 09 22 at 08:54 AM • permalink

  31. #12 ekb87

    hehe, I like this Norwegian guy!  He sounds like a straight-shooter.

    Totally agree with the sentiment. I hope you don’t think I’m being pedantic if I point out he’s a gal.

    Age: 33
    Gender: female
    Astrological Sign: Aquarius
    Zodiac Year: Ox
    Location: Oslo : Løkka : Norway

    Posted by geoff on 2006 09 22 at 09:02 AM • permalink

  32. #22 Conrad:

    Precisely.

    That and SMH called Chavez’s vaudeville schtick a ‘fiery performance.’  Yes, performance it certainly was.  All he needed was big shoes and red bulb for a nose.

    As for Pelosi and Rangel, Rangel called for reinstitution of the draft, not because he wanted more men in uniform, but because he wanted more enlistees for the anti-war movement. 

    Pelosi’s comment?  Nothing but naked (pardon the image) political calculation.

    To get a better idea what the Dems really think of Chavez’s buffoonery, see Sen. Harkin’s barely qualified praise.

    Posted by cosmo on 2006 09 22 at 10:01 AM • permalink

  33. I was beginning to wonder about all the traffick from down under. But to be quite honest, I shoot mostly to the left… we women need easy targets :-D

    Posted by VamPus on 2006 09 22 at 10:09 AM • permalink

  34. McSweeney - Noam and Zinn discuss the Lord of the Rings

    More Noam and Zinn

    No mas Noam!

    As Oprah would say, “Hugo girl”.

    Posted by Carl H on 2006 09 22 at 10:16 AM • permalink

  35. #26

    Now, for the hard question.

    Once all is said and done, will Venezuala be the 51st star on our flag? or will we keep it as a represented territory like Puerto Rico?

    just annex it to be part of Texas. They’ll love that.

    Posted by daddy dave on 2006 09 22 at 10:16 AM • permalink

  36. 6. The U.N.‘s on the East River, but I get your drift.

    Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2006 09 22 at 10:56 AM • permalink

  37. Blair’s Law:  published in multiple foreign languages.  That’s immortality.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 09 22 at 10:58 AM • permalink

  38. #14 - Can’t we just launch them into the sun?

    Posted by trexkilla on 2006 09 22 at 11:07 AM • permalink

  39. I know that this is only a minor point, but it irritate me to no end to think that Hugo is up hear being protected and well-fed at our expense.

    Posted by ladcraig on 2006 09 22 at 11:19 AM • permalink

  40. Many diplomats in the vaulted chamber laughed and clapped.

    Guess we’ve found the new home for the Useless Nitwits - move ‘em to Venezuela with their new-found buddy.

    Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2006 09 22 at 11:24 AM • permalink

  41. He’s just another petro-state dictator. And a trumped-up little shit, too.

    Posted by daddy dave on 2006 09 22 at 12:00 PM • permalink

  42. Chavez has put Chomsky at the top of Amazon’s Bestsellers list (Hegemony or Survival blah blah blah is at #7 as well). Democrats are falling all over each other denouncing Hugs and his remarks. It’s quite comical really. Oh, what I wouldn’t give to have Australia a permanent member of the Security Council.

    Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 09 22 at 12:28 PM • permalink

  43. Admittedly, I don’t always pay attention to what brand of gasoline I’m buying.  I usually go for the lowest price.  But I will not be buying Citgo and propping up Hugo.

    Posted by ladcraig on 2006 09 22 at 12:32 PM • permalink

  44. The Anti-Chomsky Reader only book worth reading about that scumbag traitor.

    Remember everybody. This Chomsky turd is the same traitor that went into Pakistan a few weeks before our invasion into Afghanistan and gave a series of “lectures” to standing room only audiences that has as talking points:
    1. How it was the plan of the Americans to cause at least 3 million Afghans to starve to death during this war.
    2. The Americans would distribute poisoned foods to the starving Afghans.
    3. Americans kill the civilians first then go after the soldiers in the field.

    The flow of Pakistani men heading to Afghanistan to help their taliban “brothers” fight against the infidel would increase substantially after his “lectures” were broadcast on radio and tv and in news print all over Pakistan.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 09 22 at 01:37 PM • permalink

  45. Hey guys, lets do a thing tomorrow.

    Exactly 100 replies in each subject posted.

    And in each subject:
    The first reply to be squar on topic.
    The second reply to be off topic but closely related to the topic.
    and the third reply to be either way off topic but in the same general concept area or just way off topic.

    Then we can work on weaving commentary from seperate strings in a single thread and possibly produce a good yarn.

    It would also be interesting if we could have postings to each subject put forward by Mr. Tim to have a beginning, a middle and an end in the commentary yarn.

    Think we could pull that off, without Andrea noticing?

    Ok, back on subject…everyone keep it on the down low. dont want “the man” to get wind of this…

    Yeah, that chomsky fella. He’s such a douch. I hear he’s not even very good at that grammar lino stuff he says he invented.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 09 22 at 02:52 PM • permalink

  46. #38 great idea. We’ll tell them:
    “the planet is doomed, due to impending global warming, species loss, rampant consumerism, and George Bush’s lies. Here’s a nice big spaceship for you all to get into. Have a nice trip.”

    Posted by daddy dave on 2006 09 22 at 03:06 PM • permalink

  47. #46, daddy dave:
    Would you mind, over much, if it was a “space ship” made of good sturdy wire mesh that was then floated out to sea so that it could submerge to its secret underwater space warp jump point?

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 09 22 at 03:41 PM • permalink

  48. Many diplomats in the vaulted chamber laughed and clapped.

    Then ship ‘em to the nearest live sitcom taping.

    Posted by PW on 2006 09 22 at 04:22 PM • permalink

  49. G’day, VamPus :) Owyagoinluv?

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 09 22 at 06:47 PM • permalink

  50. Ah well. At least we all have a place to stay the next time we are in Oslo.

    Posted by geoff on 2006 09 22 at 09:57 PM • permalink

  51. Didn’t Margaret Thatcher kick Vuenezela’s ass? Or was that Argentina?  Or are they the same country?

    Posted by Shaky Barnes on 2006 09 23 at 12:41 AM • permalink

  52. #51, Shaky Barnes:

    Or are they the same country?

    Different branches of the same general sewer.
    The only real difference that I know of between the two, other than general geography, is that the Argies were a bit more friendly to the nazis during and after WW2.

    And yeah, it was the Argies that were so simple in the head that they thought the British would give up a piece of their lands without a fight.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 09 23 at 03:36 AM • permalink

  53. Grimmy, I think also that the Falkland Islanders rather liked being Brits. They didn’t want to be Argentinian.

    Mind you, I wouldn’t want to be one, either. I’m quite partial to being aussie.

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 09 23 at 07:40 AM • permalink

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