Not if you have been a target of the coporate media for your entire political career...In announcing his passing, the power elite lapdogs just couldn't resist one parting shot at Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.....more after the fold....
In reporting his passing from cancer, our corporate media dusted off all the old adjectives they used to brainwash the American public into believing what a horrible despot this man was....
"In reporting his death, little had changed, "Venezuela bully chavez is dead" read the N.Y. Posts' front page. "Death of a demagogue" read the Time's home page. CNN host Anderson Cooper declared, " It was the death of a world leader who made America see Red as in Fidel Castro Red." "The words Venezuelan strong man so often preceded his name and for good reason." declared NBC Nightly News host Brian Williams.
On ABC World News viewers were told, "Many Americans viewed him as a dictator." that would be especially true if those Americans consumed corporate media"
The quote is from a very good article from Fair Media
http://fair.org/...
I especially like the description "Strongman" and dictator Never mind the fact he was elected by a strong majority in elections that Jimmy Carter declared the cleanest he had ever seen. I guess he was so strong, he didn't need to supress the vote like the Republicans in this country..
What did Chavez do to evoke such vitriol from our coporate gate keepers? Well he did the one cardinal sin.....he didn't play ball with our coporations...He actually decided to use oil profits to (gasp) help his people!
Now I know Chavez was no saint...(very few politicans are) but I do know that under his leadership, poverty was cut in half, the literacy rate went sky high, poor common people actually had access to free public education and health care..I guess that's why they kept re-eelcting him....but this kind of preference of people over coporations is simply unacceptable by this country's elite and by extension their controlled media...I mean someone might start to get these ideas in this country!
So even in death, the coporate media must continue to defame his legacy.and hound him even in the grave....this kind of progressive thinking has to be stamped out at all cost....
I was sad about his passing...At least he tired to help the common people of his country, which is more than you can say about any administration here in recent memory.........