Killer Chavez

Here is a very good question:

Media in the U.S. were quick to report on – and loudly criticize – Pat Robertson’s call for America to neutralize Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Why, then, have they remained silent about a recent conference in Venezuela where delegates called for the death of President Bush, asks Thor Halvorssen, president of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation?...

The 16th World Youth and Students Festival – a "communist gathering,” notes Halvorssen – was held in August in Venezuela and funded by the Chavez government.

The festival included an "international tribunal” presided over by Venezuela’s Vice President Jose Vincente Rangel, during which Chavez "testified” that George Bush was the cause of the world’s terrorism.

Delegates were seen on film chanting "Death to America” and holding signs that read, "Death to Bush.”

Writes Halvorssen: "How can the Venezuelan government justify condemning Robertson when it spends millions of dollars hosting a conference that promotes violence, hate and assassination? And why does the U.S. media, which blitzed Robertson, give Chavez a free pass?”

That's a rhetorical query, but I'll answer it anyway.

1) Because they hate Pat Robertson almost as much as they do President Bush;

2) Because Chavez is Castro's Mini-Me, and they've been giving Castro a pass for nearly half a century; and....

2) Because Chavez, as a leftist, is one of them, and they would celebrate President Bush's death scarcely any less than Chavez would.

Here's hoping I never get the chance to confirm that suspicion.