Hugo Chavez, Lou Dobbs, George Bush, Oh My!
The following is an email that I have sent to CNN's Lou Dobbs. It is in response to the extremely biased reporting that Lou Dobbs, among others, did concerning President Hugo Chavez's remarks in Harlem.To Lou Dobbs,
I was appalled by your reporting on Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez.
The captions and graphics used in your report stated "The Mouth from the South" and "El Loco Chavez". This was extremely disrespectful to a visiting head of state, not to mention the worst form of tabloid journalism. I watch CNN for news, not middle school shenanigans.
Which leads to an interesting observation.
Have you considered that President Chavez's comments, intemperate as they are, may have serious elements of truth that deserve serious discussion?
President Bush is a self proclaimed alcoholic who has not gone through any reputable recovery program. Admitted, some people do successfully overcome addiction on there own, through the exercise of prodigious will power and strenuous critical self-examination. I think it is evident that George Bush has neither characteristic. If anything, President Bush exhibits all of the characteristics of the "dry drunk" which include a rigid moral compass that sees the world in stark absolute terms and the inability to accept and internalize criticism.
I am not a religious person in the currently popular fashion. But I think that, since President Bush has made his Christian faith a key part of his public persona, President Chavez's charges that President Bush is the Devil deserves discussion too.
From my modest understanding of the Old and New Testaments I believe that the Devil is referred to as the Great Deceiver. I think that is a very accurate description of George W. Bush and the policies of his administration. I won't bother you with the long list of lies and half-truths that President Bush has been caught in over his many years in politics.
Likewise, who has suffered more under Bush's administration: the wealthy or the least among us? Wasn't Christ a champion of the poor and the powerless? Just how Christian has Bush's behavior been, despite his wrapping himself in the labels of Christianity? Again, deception, this time at the heart of the religious issue.
Lou, I suggest rather than making faces at the TV camera and ranting about President Chavez, a president that you can't vote for; you should calm down and start addressing the serious questions of the emotional, moral, and ethical competencies of the president You Can Vote For.
President Chavez brought up serious issues. Rather than throwing mud on the messenger, consider the message.
posted by Les @ 6:21 AM
1 Comments:
Thanks for the thoughtful comments. It is hard to respond thoughtfully to an uninformed tirade.
I don't think 'W' is a devil as in Chavez' apparent joking reference.
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