MSNBC talking heads smell Hugo Chavez, and he smells like sulfur

[Human Torch]

Karl Rove's White House in action, ladies and gentlemen.

This was live on MSNBC TV a few moments ago, so no link.

One talking head asks another about Chavez's "I still smell the sulfur" remarks about Bush, and the other responds:

"You know, it's really a shame, because the people of Venezuela have needs that are not being met. If anything, he is taking the country backward instead of forward."

Now...without either praising or condemning Chavez on any level (not the purpose of this thread), focusing strictly on the question and the response:

NICE way to deflect. NICE way to read the White House "Bush Is The Devil Talking Points" fax.

NICE job, MSNBC.

:silly:

[1932]

1. A road to the airport had to be rebuilt.

That's literally the ONLY need I've heard Chavez critics allege that Venezuelan's haven't had satisfied that is based on facts (yes, the road to the airport had to be rebuilt).

Education, health care, jobs, low inflation, a growing private sector, devolved democracy, all the other infrastructure...the MSM ignores that.

[Cosmocat]

2. Two things ...

1) It just is insane ... The guy got his country freakin energy independent ... Something that should be priority ONE for this country ...

2) The WHOLE MSM took the talking point hook, line and sinker about the "sulfur" statement being about "flatuence" ... He wasn't refering to flatuence ... It was a continued play on the devil anology ... Watch when he said it ... He was talking about the devil for a half minute leading to the sulfur statment ...

Devil lives in ...
Hell ...
Hell is brimetone and fire ...
Hell smells like ...
Sulfur ...

It just is insane ...

[Human Torch]

4. They turned this into a fart joke? You're kidding, right?

Wow, I missed that...

Even if I had missed the "devil" reference, if someone mentioned "Bush" and "sulfur" I'd immediately think "Hmmm...sulfur..."fire and brimstone"...Bush is the Devil?"

Yesterday there were a few articles (posted all over DU) about how Karl Rove must love the fact that the American public seems to have forgotten that we're in a bloodbath of a civil war in Iraq.

Top priorities: Anna Nicole Smith's son's autopsy, Katie Couric: Still Perky?, Rosie O'Donnell, Kidnapped baby returned safely, and Bush's "tough talk" at the U.N. regarding Iran.

Ignorance truly is bliss. The media truly serves at the pleasure of the president.

[Cosmocat]

10. TOTALLY ...

That day, Wednesday, I think ... Fox, CNN, MSNBC, to a man ... Every one of them said it was a flatulence reference ...

I heard it, and thought ... Chavez is wild and all, but ... Then, I think it was CNN, I saw the whole minute or so ... And it was pretty clear what he was doing ... But, the whole rest of the day, the whores were going with the fart meme ...

[Supersedeas]

6. Apparently Bush Rove and the M$M like fart jokes

[saigon68]

3. Those FUCKERS smell of Dirty Corporate Bribe Money

And the smell of rotten cow entrails.

[irislake]

5. I was disappointed.

Shame on David Letterman for referring to Chavez as a
"dictator". Why does American mainstream continue to
make this error? Bush comes closer to that description having
got into office twice by crooked methods. Have to say that
Chavez played better to  audiences outside the U.S. And is it
true he got a five minute standing ovation? I think he was as
bang-on and as effective as Stephen Colbert at the dinner. I
wish Bush had been there. Not the least bit surprised he
didn't have the guts. I love it when people really sock it to
him. He does think he owns the world and alas too many
Americans agree. The rest of the world has had him up to the
back teeth. Feels good when Chavez gets up and says what we
all think. You are too polite. Democrats are too polite. More
Byrd and Ron Paul. Less polite tippy-toing, please. Call a
spade a spade. He's a murderous psychopath as are the rest of
that bunch. Cheney is spine-tingling. I don't approve of the
death penalty but almost in their case.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

8. Sorry to disagree

but Chavez does not speak for me.

I'm a Democrat, but I don't name call. It's childish. I just vote.

[Snivi Yllom]

7. for once the Media whores got it right

"You know, it's really a shame, because the people of Venezuela have needs that are not being met. If anything, he is taking the country backward instead of forward."


Chavez's speech will not help the people of Venezuela. In fact he just hurt them.

[SOS]

9. Corporate media

gleefully ripped John Kerry's medals off his chest. And laughed as they did it.
Purple Band-Aids.
It's no surprise that these lackeys would rip apart Chavez.
They work for Wall Street and say whatever their overlords type for them in a press release.
We could get the same information reading the Exxon newsletter.