Even though he is a socialist bully, even though he is becoming more of a dictator every day, even though he is making money hand over fist from oil, Hollywood liberals are flocking to Hugo Chavez like he was their first boyfriend:
Other visitors have included the actors Kevin Spacey, Sean Penn and Danny Glover. Chavez’s encouragement of critics of President George W Bush has reminded analysts of Castro’s success in turning Havana into the so-called “revolutionary Rivieraâ€.
Lenin coined the term “useful idiots†for westerners who visited Moscow to support the Soviet system.
Chavez has emerged as the free-spending leader of anti-American forces in the region. He is putting up almost $20m (£9.6m) for two films to be made by Glover; one featuring an 18th-century slave uprising in Haiti and another an adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel, The General.
Penn turned up in Venezuela last August and caused anger by visiting the studio Chavez is building to compete with North American producers.
“A lot of us think Penn was wrong,†one producer told the Chicago Sun Times. “It only gives ammunition to conservatives who like to point to Hollywood as being anti-American.â€
These people did the same thing with Soviet Russia, Castro’s Cuba and every other communist “worker’s paradise.” And every time, they are shocked when their hero turns out to be a bad guy. Idiots, indeed.
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