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The Wingnuts Are Coming!

Submitted July 23, 2005 - 12:29 pm by Al Giordano
Nothing like the establishment of a new TV station to bring out the wingnuts (what? Are they bored with FOX News already? Are they gonna have to learn Spanish to be able to rail at Telesur?)

In an upcoming essay, I'll have more fact-checking Florida Congress member Connie Mack's recent shrieking claims about Venezuela and Telesur. But in my daily review of what's being said in the media about our América I found a column that just is too funny to let the morning pass by without sharing it.

The column, by William A. Borst Ph.D. is titled The real Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and it's published on some rightwing website named "Renew America" from some other publication called "The Mindszenty Report." Here's my favorite paragraph from this columnist warning that communism is back by popular demand in Latin America:

Ecuador is now under the control of radical Castro-Chavez protege' Lucio Gutierrez. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC), the Communist narco-terrorist organization that has been waging a bloody civil war for 40 years, virtually rules Columbia. Riots in Bolivia forced out President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada in 2003 and the country has nationalized its petroleum industry. Evo Morales, the leader of the Movement Toward Socialism may soon replace current president Carlos Mesa. Both Peru's Alejandro Toledo elected in 2000 and Uruguay's Tabare Vazquez, elected in 2004, maintain a leftist rule in their countries."

Um, like, how many facts are wrong in that one paragraph? Lucio is still the president of Ecuador? Really? And Carlos Mesa is still president of Bolivia? Didn't their heads roll this past spring? I think I read something about those events on Narco News. And "Bolivia nationalized its petroleum industry"? How'd we miss that story? And Peru's Alejandro Toledo "maintains a leftist rule" in Peru? To the left of what? Colombia? And the FARC "virtually rules" Colombia? So that's who's been pardoning all them paramilitaries, "Sureshot Uribe," eh?

And if Hugo Chavez is the "real" Fidel, then whose that old guy with the beard in Cuba? And who would be "the real Hugo Chavez" to take his place. Sheesh. Geopolitics gets more complicated every day.

Yeah. The wingnuts are coming. This will be fun. Welcome, kids! Maybe they should learn Spanish and watch Telesur. At least they'd know then who is president of each country so they'll know who to attack in their columns.

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