If Oliver Stone’s rewrite is an affront to Venezuela’s opposition during “a crucial moment” like this…um….who cares? But as long as you’re writing about this, who from the opposition has time to read Oliver Stone’s rewrite? Who from the opposition is affronted by this rewrite? And how did they take this grave affront? Just curious.

//VenezuelaToday.net

Penn’s version of journalism is actually a brave, breath of fresh air. The piece reads like a movie and was actually newsworthy. He is critical of Cuba and Chavez on many points but has a right to be madder at pols (like Biden and Lieberman) who routinely call Chavez a good for nothing dictator and distort the way Americans look at Latin America.

Cooper does not have to find inspiration in Cuban socialism (as
so many in the world do). He, like many good liberals, can continue to say the US system is broken but ridicule people who are trying to build a new world elsewhere. I’m sure he fancies himself an anti-imperialist but uses his pen more against Cuba and Venezuela than of all the recent US misdeeds in the region. That’s fine. All we proud socialists ask is why he goes out of his way to cow journalism with a different point of view?

And by the way, some facts were wrong. Cubans indeed have the right to an appeal (up to the Supreme Court). They also have a moratorium on the death penalty and publicly state they hope to never use it. There are no banned books in Cuba and no one has been arrested for having the wrong books in their house. That’s absurd. The “independent librarians” (in prison) Cooper is probably referencing were the handful who chose to work and take money from the US Government – just like most of the few dozen “prisoners of conscience” that Amnesty recognizes. Does Cooper know that the US Government wastes even more money trying to coerce groups and hacks around the world to print that Cuba is arresting people for their books? If he does not see the USG engineered circle that he is falling for, I don’t know what to say.

As far as what the Cuban people really want, it’s possible Cooper knows roughly as much as Sean Penn. Anyone still writing in terms of admiration for a crackpot war monger like Chris Hitchens is hardly to be trusted on such matters.

The failed Obama Presidency…

This is worse than the Bush era – we’ve got twice as many failed Presidents. As Olberman would put it, you, Sirs, need to resign !

Happy American Thanksgiving.

Penn’s version of journalism is actually a brave, breath of fresh air. The piece reads like a movie and was actually newsworthy. He is critical of Cuba and Chavez on many points but has a right to be madder at pols (like Biden and Lieberman) who routinely call Chavez a good for nothing dictator and distort the way Americans look at Latin America.

Cooper does not have to find inspiration in Cuban socialism (as
so many in the world do). He, like many good liberals, can continue to say the US system is broken but ridicule people who are trying to build a new world elsewhere. I’m sure he fancies himself an anti-imperialist but uses his pen more against Cuba and Venezuela than of all the recent US misdeeds in the region. That’s fine. All we proud socialists ask is why he goes out of his way to cow journalism with a different point of view?

And by the way, some facts were wrong. Cubans indeed have the right to an appeal (up to the Supreme Court). They also have a moratorium on the death penalty and publicly state they hope to never use it. There are no banned books in Cuba and no one has been arrested for having the wrong books in their house. That’s absurd. The “independent librarians” (in prison) Cooper is probably referencing were the handful who chose to work and take money from the US Government – just like most of the few dozen “prisoners of conscience” that Amnesty recognizes. Does Cooper know that the US Government wastes even more money trying to coerce groups and hacks around the world to print that Cuba is arresting people for their books? If he does not see the USG engineered circle that he is falling for, I don’t know what to say.