Unbelievable...
Jon Stewart and fans at The Daily Show shower Bolivian Marxist President Evo Morales with praise!
The audience thinks it was especially wonderful that Evo's government took control of private industry!... Now, that got a big round of applause.
And, when Evo Morales bashes Bush- He's da bomb!
Jon Stewart and his hip Leftist crowd bought into Evo's Marxist rant-
like a bunch of foolish adolescents- who skipped history class to go get high:
(8 minutes- nothing but praise)
Is it really that surprising that the leading Leftist comic on television is promoting communism?
But, Evo is a Native American communist- Isn't that cool?
...An Indigenous Communist? ...Sweet!
Here is the former coca farmer and Hugo Chavez lackey with a painting of one of his idols:
Bolivian President Evo Morales holds a portrait made with coca leaves of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, the Argentine-born Cuban revolutionary who died in his unsuccessful attempt to bring communism to Bolivia, in La Paz, March 13, 2006. (Reuters)
Che may have failed bringing communism to Bolivia... But, Evo hasn't.
Schafik Hándal, Hugo Chávez, Fidel Castro and Evo Morales in Havana, 2004. (Wiki)
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Former Bolivian Congressman and political dissident Jose Brechner wrote in with this about the shocking display on The Daily Show:
Thank you Jim, I saw John Stewart´s show earlier today. Morales is so limited that he can´t grab a joke. He becomes very agressive when somebody in Bolivia asks him a question that he couldn´t understand. Imagine this guy as Ahmadinejad, he looks quiet and humble, but if he would have the power he´d kill us all.Worrisome, indeed!
What worries me more, is the favorable reaction of the American public towards this guy. He was at The Cooper Union in Manhattan and the students loved it when he said that capitalism is the origin of all evil.
Related... Gorbachev warned Russia lately of the growing threat of Stalinism.
He needs to come deliver that same message here.
UPDATE: Shecky Magazine also has a review of the Marxist interview- via Instapundit.
HotAir and SeeDubya have more on Jon Stewart's baffoonery.
Well Jon Stewart pandering to someone who thinks murdering coward like Che is someone to idolize is hardly a suprise...
ReplyDeleteAfter all Stewart pandered to the SUPREME GORON and his global warming crapola...
Why should Stewart let a little thing like facts get in the way of good but witless whine?
you do realize that long before Americans starting buying cocaine, coca leaves were already a traditional crop in the Andes, right? While Colombia, Peru and Bolivia are all leading coca growers, the leading COCAINE BUYERS ARE AMERICAN. If I'm not mistaken, economics is based not just on supply, but supply and demand. Perhaps we should spend just as much time on curbing US demand as we do on military action in Andean countries.
ReplyDeleteFurthermore, "murdering coward like Che" could easily be replaced with other names such as Pinochet, Noriega, or bin Laden, all of whom were trained by and empowered by the CIA.
And for your information, before you discount everything I say, I don't vote on party lines or think that all Socialists are God's gift to man. Personally, I believe that Chavez and Kim Jong Il are unbalanced, petty dicatators who have no business running a marathon, let alone a country. However, I think that Morales and especially da Silva could actually do some good for their own countries and others. What a novel concept.
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ReplyDeleteAnonymous @ 8:07 PM
Furthermore, "murdering coward like Che" could easily be replaced with other names such as Pinochet, Noriega, or bin Laden, all of whom were trained by and empowered by the CIA.
uh, bin Laden had nothing to do with the CIA..
1973 Chilean coup d'état
United States intervention in Chile
Manuel Noriega
regardless.. how does any
of it negate what CG did??
seems to me lots of people are pointing to past events as i they negate the present.. not to mention Bush wasn't the president at the time.. only goes to show how Bush has upset everyone's apple cart, including the CIA's.. (thumbsup)
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Thanks BG-
ReplyDeleteAnon- That the CIA funded bin Laden or trained bin Laden—is simply a folk myth. There's no evidence of this. In fact, there are very few things that bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and the U.S. government agree on. They all agree that they didn't have a relationship in the 1980s. And they wouldn't have needed to. Bin Laden had his own money, he was anti-American and he was operating secretly and independently. The real story here is the CIA didn't really have a clue about who this guy was until 1996 when they set up a unit to really start tracking him.
Read more and learn at BG's link.
I too thank you bg for pointing out the obvious flaws in A @ 8:07 PM lack of rationale...
ReplyDeleteWhat never gets said about St. Allende is how his supporters used to take those with as they said, "manos suaves" (soft hands) out and shoot them on the spot...
Who were these manos suaves?
Teachers, librarians, lawyers, judges... You get the picture...
It was ugly beyond words and it didn't do a damn thing productive (quite the opposite in fact) for Chile and in fact pushed Chile back decades...
"the students loved it when he said that capitalism is the origin of all evil"
ReplyDeleteCapitalism is the origin of all freedom. Having someone think he has the right to all your money, the right to tell you where you can work, the right to tell you how to live, what you can buy, and who you can associate with is the origin of all evil.
Anecdote:
ReplyDeleteWhile earning my bachelor's degree in 2002, I was sitting in a Western Civilization course at a major North Carolina university when the professor said something about capitalism. The class booed in unison at the mention of the word. Surprised at the response, the professor asked if anyone would care to defend capitalism, and since no one raised their hand, I took up the challenge and expressed what I believed to be an obvious truism: free enterprise allowed for the greatest amount of freedom and the greatest amount of wealth to reach the greatest number of people; and furthermore, if the class really cared for the well being of mankind, the best thing they could do was to help export representative democracy and capitalism throughout the world. For my effort, I was roundly booed and thereafter ostracized as an idiot. That experience - I had many other jaw-dropping, eye-opening moments in college - truly scared me.
After I had had my say, to my professor's lasting credit, he exclaimed to the class that he agreed with what I had said because there was no doubt to its empiric proof. But, alas, he was old, and his time at the university was almost at an end. Shortly thereafter, he retired and was replaced by yet another young, unrepentant Marxist on the History Department's faculty.
After graduation, I ran into my old professor, and he asked me what I had thought of all of the Marxist's in the university's history department to which I responded, "thank Goodness I was already well-read in history before I began to study it at school, lest I had graduated an educated idiot!" We both laughed, but I’m still scared!
Epitaph: the continued pervasiveness of post-modernism in secondary and post-secondary education will be the death knell of western civilization.
It always amuses me how conservatives consistently think that their particular boogey man (the COMMUNISTS!) scare everyone.
ReplyDeleteThey don't.
Many of us, while not enamored of the political theory are also not subject to red-scare theatrics.
Just sayin.
In Stewart's defense, I think he treats all his guests the same way. No doubt there were Morales fans who knew he was going to be on the show, so they packed the audience with his supporters.
ReplyDeleteMorales will run his country into the ground, just like all Communists do. Unfortunately the only way to learn that lesson is to elect such a leader, for some people. Unfortunately the people of Nicaragua failed to learn the first time...
Anonymous said: “It always amuses me how conservatives consistently think that their particular boogey man (the COMMUNISTS!) scare everyone…”
ReplyDeleteAh, yes, it doesn’t take long for the tired cliché of, “you suffer from an inordinate fear of Communism” to rise from the shallow waters of a post-modernist’s thinking. BTW- thanks much for making my point that objective reality and empiric facts mean nothing to a post-modernist. Well, my friend, I think it is correct to fear and loathe a totalitarian ideology that spawned the mass murder of tens of millions. If you have not come to fear Communism, I posit that you have never seriously studied its consequences where human beings have found themselves under its yoke. What I find pathetic in your comment is that you do not fear it; ergo you will not fight against it; ergo you enable it. But then again, that’s deductive logic, yet another anathema to a post-modernist.
So the left has gone so far out of their minds that even conservative Islamic clerics are more enlightened than them. I know Steward was a moonbat but I had no idea he was a capital "M" moonbat/batsh1t, nationalize-the-economy and put-Stalin's-statue-in-every-school moonbat.
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ReplyDeleteMatthew @ 10:02 AM
you are not alone..
All Analysis, No Facts
excerpt:
["The average college senior knows astoundingly little about America's history, government, international relations and market economy, earning an "F" on the American civic literacy exam with a score of 54.2%. Harvard seniors did best, but their overall average was 69.6%, a disappointing D+." Is the verdict from Intercollegiate Studies Institute after grading the results of this test.
The universities defended themselves on the grounds they teach analysis rather than facts but there is problem with their defense -- without a grounding in facts, what good is the ability to engage in proper analysis?
The failure of graduates of elite universities to understand the most basic and established facts explains much of the current debate on Iraq and the war on terror.]
it scares a lot of people..
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Given the obvious dislike of capitalism by so many, why haven't they moved to a Communist (or at least Marxist) paradise? I mean, North Korea, China, Cuba, Bolivia, Venezuela, et al, there are plenty of place.
ReplyDeleteOh, but that would mean giving up all (or at least most of) the material trappings of capitalist production. Nevermind.
And of course the Lefty lovers bring up Pinochet and Noriega, among others, whose death totals, no matter how measured, don't make up even one percent of the murders by Communism in the 20th century. The tu quoque is a very weak argument in general, even weaker here, and solid evidence of the paucity of their intellect and evidence for their view.
In the past many native americans and indigenous like Evo Morales were treated like slaves by white people who came to the New World only for GOLD, GOD and GLORY... the world is changing now... as one of those native said many years ago: "We will come back in millions"... It's time for them to recover the land that used to be of them...
ReplyDeleteWhy build a wall between Mexico and the U.S. if originally those lands were from the mexicans?
Enough of WARS and GLOBAL WARMING!
Natives tribes of the world treat the earth and nature with RESPECT, they are not selfish, bad and corrupt people like others...they are people of peace.
Who brought all the worst into this land?
The answer: Many europeans settlers.
Evo Morales should understand once and for all that Bolivian natural resources belong to US corporations!
ReplyDeleteIf he doesn't get it, we will send our troops to defend the profits of our corporations!
As we have done for decades!
Period!
I am actually in La Paz, Bolivia, enjoying this "communist" state. (The Gateway Pundit is a complete idiot to think that Morales is actually a communist, but that won't stop him.)
ReplyDeleteTry to get out of your shells, you stupid gringo pigs (but don't take "gringo" as a pejorative).
Your ignorance of the world is staggering.
Extra credit: Discuss the people that Reagan murdered compared to those that Guevera murdered.
Who comes out on top?
Matthew says "if the class really cared for the well being of mankind, the best thing they could do was to help export representative democracy and capitalism throughout the world"
ReplyDeleteInterestingly, as EMPIRICAL evidence has shown, democracy and capitalism in fact do not go together. In most poor countries, to get governments to cut social programs, liberalize trade, and open the national economy to foreign investment often requires extremely authoritarian measures. See Chile under Pinochet, Indonesia under Suharto, Ghana during the 80's, Iraq since the U.S. invasion, the Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti and El Jefe's next door in Dominican Republic, and countless others for more details. Of course, authoritarian Marxist-Leninists have created equally harsh regimes, howver Morales and Chavez and the like seem to be more democratic socialists than anything else.
Also, a lesson in logic- Just because many postimodernists are Marxists, does not mean that all Marxists are postmodernists. Probably none of the politicians discussed here are.
Another thing, Wikipedia entries should not probably be regarded as proof of anything.