You Don't Get The Truth About Chavez And Venezuela

And neither do I.  Not from the establishment media in the United States.  Not from the paper that employed Judy Miller.  Not from the paper that employs Jennifer Rubin.  Not from a network that employs Lou Dobbs or Wolf Blitzer or Joe Scarborough.  Not from a public radio service paid for by the Koch Brothers.  Not from rock-ribbed conservatives in the Democratic or Republican parties.  All the news we ever got about Chavez was the equivalent of the teabagging, birther nonsense about Obama.  If you lived in a place where all you heard was that Obama was a Muslim or a Kenyan or a Socialist or a homosexual murderer, what could you truly understand about American politics and the current American president?  That's the state of affairs regarding Venezuela.  As far as the United States is concerned, the entire media and political establishment is Fox "News" and Michelle Malkin-level fucktardery.  Chavez was not our puppet, so the entire establishment hated him.  He did some great things for some of the poorest people in the Western Hemisphere.  He obliterated poverty; he spread literacy; he made healthcare and education accessible to all Venezuelans, not just the white oligarchs.  And when murders designed to destabilize his country exploded, his government actually passed gun control laws to stop the violence!  Someday, if we have access to honest history of Chavez's rule in Venezuela here in the United States, we will finally be able to understand what went right and what went wrong during Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution.  Then we can see what sort of man Chavez truly was, and where he succeeded and where he failed.  Certainly we will probably never get the honest appraisal from the douchebags in the American media and government.