Do you agree with Barbara Walters that socialist despot Hugo Chavez "does positive things"?

Question

WALTERS: Hugo Chavez, I was amazed that he, that he didn’t get to be president for life. I thought he was going to just bring in loads and loads of people.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/justin-mccarthy/2007/12/05/barbara-walters-hugo-chavez-charismatic-does-positive-things

Answer 1

To answer your question;

Wow, does that show what a socialist Barbara Walters really is. To support the lifetime appointment of a socialist dictator wanna be really tells you about her objectivity as a reporter of "news". I wonder if she would support a similar situation here in America if a socialist was ever elected president.

Answer 2

AS posted earlier. He lost and one contribution. The idea is "most interesting" and keep in mind Babba hired Rosie and sold her out for ratings. I agree, retirement time.

Chavez threatened the US oil supply , called Bush a traitor among other words. ABC had let her go and controversy adds to numbers and $$ . She must be further padding the nest. A book coming in April next year also. I lost my respect for her watching her destroy The View. Bill Geddes too. Chavez is still a Dictator and will work harder now. This kid from the mall shootings... just another example of media gone amuck. Tu.

Answer 3

The only thing positive Hugo Chavez ever did was not kiss Barbara Walters' hinny back! (She does look a little like Jimmy Carter with make-up, don't she?)

Answer 4

I agree, he's a great leader and a great patriot , Unlike Bush/Owen. He stands up for the people and is afraid of no one. Europe, well all the contents in fact could use leaders like chavez. It would be a better world.Some of the fools who answered your great question offered to pay your fare to Venezuela. I wish they would pay mine too. But they are hypocrites and won't put their money where their mouths are. If the saw Venezuela many would change their minds

Answer 5

First of all, that transcript was hilarious in that it showed those women on The View seem incapable of being coherent. I'm also wondering if her surprise at his failure to win was that he didn't bring in loads and loads of people to fix the election. That was the way I read it, anyway. Not having watched, I couldn't get her tone. I'm also not sure where you get the impression that he's a despot. Despots don't tend to call referendums on their policies.

As to a positive thing he does, how about providing low-cost heating oil for poor people in, of all places, the United States? I'm not a fan of the man, but you can't deny that he does that, since it is a fact. His reasons for doing it may or may not be pure, but the fact is, he does it.

Answer 6

I know it is your mission to paint the world in black and white -

That the guy can only be seen in one light and that has to fit into the regime policy of whatever

Life is seldom like that -

"He is a man who has none of the vices which I admire and all of the virtues I dislike" Sir Winston Churchill

Chavez has tried to better the lot of the poor - Do you object to helping the poor

He ordered that the constitution be printed on the back of food staples like rice so that the people could understand that they to have rights - Are you against people knowing what their rights are ?

He has attempted to put "burrows" where poor people live (1 million people at times) on the map which they had been ignored in the past - Are you for people not being on the map because they are poor ?

He has tried to re-claim some of the natural resources of his nation - Are you against a nation managing it's own resources ?


Now if you want to say that you disagree with how he is trying to help the poor - or how he is driving in a wedge between him and the world with his speeches and so on


Fine - thats all valid

What is not valid is a simplistic black and white over view of the man

But that doesn't sell news papers and it doesn't whip up war mongering beasts

So I suppose you have no interest in it

Answer 7

All the lefties are surprised that Venezuelans preferred to keep this socialist's reign temporary. Even the poor believe they won't be poor forever...and have the hope to be free of the Hugo Chavez' of the world.

We need some Venezuelans to vote in the US election...it'll keep the dems out.

Answer 8

The only good things he's coming up with is propositions of a South American economic union. He also supports a system where Venezuela is sovereign over its destiny and not to be a puppet to American interests. But aside from that he's doing it the wrong way and he's not the proper "Bismarck" that South America needs.

Answer 9

He is a thug dictator. Barbara Walters must have taken a hit to the head or something.

Answer 10

Mussolini made the trains run on time. Saddam had very low crime.

Just because someone's an tyrant, doesn't mean they don't do positive things (even if by accident).

Also, Chavez really isn't that bad. The oppression of the poor by the wealthy in Venezuela was reaching the point of revolution before he came into office. I'm not a fan, but he is hardly the big bad that the administration makes him out to be.