04.19.09

Really let the full implications of what’s going on sink in

Posted in Ideology, Pakistan, latin america at 1:57 pm by Administrator

Fausta has the photographs of the book acceptance, some quotes from Ortega’s tirade (to which TCM didn’t respond with any kind of defense of the country he’s supposedly the leader of), and background on it all.

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  1. Mr. Dings said,

    April 19, 2009 at 3:37 pm

    Here’s hoping he reads it and goes on Charlie Rose (my choice) to discuss it, perhaps in tandem with Chavez. That would be a show now! This should trump any Oprah Book Club selection for the month and get all citizens of this hemisphere to read it and engage in the debate. To dream the impossible dream….

  2. Mr. Dings said,

    April 19, 2009 at 6:28 pm

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124006466198031973.html

    He said Venezuela has a defense budget about one-six hundredth the size of the United States’, and owns Citgo, the oil company. “It’s hard to believe we are endangering the strategic interests of the United States” by talking with Chavez, Obama said.

  3. Bentnotesmanhisself said,

    April 19, 2009 at 7:13 pm

    He also called Iran a “small country” in a speech last year on countries he didn’t regard as significant threats.
    Barack Hussein Obama, The Chicago Marxist, is one of the most dangerous human beings who has ever existed. Unless he’s stopped, his place in history will be as the figure who ended Western civilization.

  4. Mr. Dings said,

    April 20, 2009 at 12:02 am

    Can’t be all bad if it gets people reading. Now perhaps we can look forward to a whole spate of book giving to the Prexy. The Obama Book Club. Can’t wait to see what Oprah has to say, let me know, will ya, bloggie.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090419/ts_afp/americassummitusvenezuelabook_20090419184521

    PORT OF SPAIN (AFP) – A book accusing the United States of being a neo-colonial bully in the Americas has rocketed up the sales charts, after a copy was given as a gift by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to US leader Barack Obama.

    The book, “The Open Veins of Latin America” was given by Chavez, a longtime US critic, to Obama Saturday at an Americas summit in Trinidad and Tobago.

    The English version of the tome, a well-known in leftist political circles, catapulted from 734th place to second place in just 24 hours on the online bookseller Amazon.com.

    The work in its original Spanish language had an even more spectacular ascent, from 47,468th place to 283th. It also showed substantial increased sales on the website of online bookseller Barnes and Noble.

    The work by Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano is about the region’s colonial past and exploitation by the world’s big powers — themes hammered constantly by Chavez, who frequently accuses the United States of “imperialist” policies.

  5. Bentnotesmanhisself said,

    April 20, 2009 at 12:19 pm

    No, sorry, it’s all bad, because, as the rise in sales for this shit shows, it perpetuates harmful lies that further imperil American exceptionalism.

  6. MR. Dings said,

    April 20, 2009 at 6:09 pm

    So do you think viewing the native Americans, even though they fought amongst themselves, as of course had Europeans for centuries, improving on its methods to a greater degree, and imagining some Destiny of some God as Manifest, was indeed the way of truth? I know we don’t all have time to read this tome, but what is thinking for? Surely you are not in favor of a censorship of ideas here, are you? I’d rejoice to see a spate of book giving amongst our world leaders. And discussions everywhere.

  7. MR. Dings said,

    April 20, 2009 at 6:12 pm

    crucial word missing up there is savages. When will I learn to proofread every time?

  8. Bentnotesmanhisself said,

    April 20, 2009 at 6:26 pm

    Well, sweeping generalizations about all aboriginal peoples living in the Americas are pretty useless, btu it’s clear that there was a discernible trend of a gain in the momentum of civilizational advancement upon the arrival of the Europeans.
    And of course I’m not in favor of censorship. What I am in favor of is speaking out against this kind of left-wing anti-Westernism.
    While working on my MA in history, I wrote papers on this stuff – liberation theology and leftist historicism – whenever I got the chance. Did my thesis on it. I know quite well the odor wafting off guys like Galeano.
    In a conversation with someone recently, I said that I’m not a very open-minded person. When someone gives me an article or book by one of the usual suspects, I am looking for shoddy logic, faulty reasoning, misstated facts and glaring omissions from the first paragraph. I have a barometer, or a foundation, if you will, to guide me through such materials. On the level of principles, I know what’s right, so there’s not a lot of “Well, maybe this person has some points to consider.”

  9. MR. Dings said,

    April 20, 2009 at 7:07 pm

    And that’s why you here at BN are such a vital voice. And why it helps me fomulate and hone my opinions. Everyone should have a blogsphere. It is even a form of journaling. Is there a way to save it for our own posteriors, if not posterity? This isn’t it, of course, but, couldn’t we could use another Uncle Tom’s Cabin to spawn debate? I know one properly aimed bullet might do it too. Lets prove the pen mightier than the sword here. I know, me and my cotton candy world.

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