sunset January 17, 2009
1:32 AM PST
The problem, gottaloveit, is that all three talking points are demonstrably false, as Thom Hartmann pointed out very politely in his interview with Schoen.
gottaloveit January 16, 2009
10:11 PM PST
Thank you LinkTV for telling the truth about Chavez.
sunset January 16, 2009
2:05 PM PST
One more thing by way of illustration: I just listened to Thom Hartmann's interview yesterday with one of the founders of Schoen, Penn, Berland lobbying shop, Doug Schoen. He used exactly the same talking points "Latin Pulse" put out in their last Venezuela segment. Listen to Thom here:
http://a1135.g.akamai.net/f/1135/18227/1h/cchannel.download.akamai.com/18227/podcast/PORTLAND-OR/KPOJ-AM/hartmann_podcast_20090115-2.mp3?CPROG=PCAST&MARKET=PORTLAND-OR&NG_FORMAT=newstalk&SITE_ID=674&STATION_ID=KPOJ-AM&PCAST_AUTHOR=AM620_KPOJ&PCAST_CAT=News_%26_Politics&PCAST_TITLE=Thom_Hartmann_Nationwide
Why is LinkTV being used to lobby against the democratically elected government of Venezuela? I've watched just about enough LinkTV to notice and to ask the question.
sunset January 16, 2009
1:06 PM PST
When Latin Pulse went on the air, the very first episode had a segment based on the premise that the Chavez government stifled the media. I contacted the Research Department for the show and submitted countervailing evidence from FAIR.
Ironically, this latest episode again is forwarding talking points right out of the Bush White House using clips from Globovision -- the very same highly critical media that Chavez is supposed to be stifling. Oops.
The reality of privately owned media in Venezuela is that it is controlled by the oligarchy and it excoriates Chavez and his government nearly every day.
The Venezuela portion of this new Latin Pulse episode begins at about 00:05 and lasts about four minutes. The takeaway is that Chavez wants to rule for life, that he is a radical who is connected to terrorists and that he is buying material to make explosives from Iran!
A more balanced report would tell you that Chavez is interested in a referendum abolishing term limits so he can run again, that the Israeli government attacked him with already debunked accusations of ties to FARC when he expelled their diplomat over the slaughter in Gaza and that Turkish officials investigated and released a shipment bound for Venezuela from Iran, the two countries having several joint ventures ongoing.
I can't believe I'm seeing this stuff on LinkTv. It's so skewed to the right, it would be better suited to air on Fox "News".
