Readers of this blog will likely remember my past exchanges with Noam Chomsky. The ‘most important intellectual in the world’ has emerged from his cave with a letter, published in the newspaper he recently accused of “extreme dishonesty,” namely The Guardian.
How deranged must Chomsky and his fellow apologists of Chavista totalitarianism be to request the publication of a letter, based on unfounded propaganda, in the very media everyone labeled as “dishonest”? The good news is observing that the list of fools among personalities condemning ‘human rights abuses’ in Venezuela is getting smaller: by removing well-known propagandists from the Chavista ranks (hat tip NYT), they can hardly exceed 20 signatures.
UPDATE: while it’s uncommon for me to link to Labourlist.org, here’s a very Rob Marchant piece about how dictatorial thugs like Chávez manage to gain support from the most radical segments of the left. Fortunately, this fanatic fringe is increasingly becoming irrelevent, and is being recognized as such. Is it any wonder that none of Chávez’s ‘political parties’ have been accepted into the Socialist International?