Carrol wrote:
There can be no more deadly criticism of Chavez than any
criticism which even faintly suggests he is a clown or "crazy." This
kind of propaganda is far more dangerous than obvious propaganda in
building up sentiment for eventual war on Venezuela. In fact, without
this kind of "nuanced," "comic," "good-natured" spoofing of Chavez the
more overt attacks would not have the atmosphere to be effective.
Which is so obvious it makes ChuckO's ranting against Chavez and in support of Stewart's "Brilliant satire" all the more strange. It isn't as if anyone here called for Stewart's head on a plate, or was trying to implement a campaign to get him fired. It was a very mild criticism of Stewart which made ChuckO apoplectic. Is Stewart above criticism in ChuckO's opinion? Are politicians fair game but TV personalities off limits?
The criticism of Chavez was of a individual nature, his use of rhetoric which is all well and good to ChuckO but the criticism of Stewart was from a viewpoint of solidarity, something apparently to be opposed by hyper- individualistic anarchists.
John Thornton