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July 23, 2007

Does Hugo Chavez understand irony?

Brian Schwarz and Thomas Lifson
One common characteristic of tyrants is their inability to appreciate how ridiculous they make themselves look. The yes-man syndrome strikes even harder than with Hollywood celebrities.  Case in point: Hugo Chavez. On his regular Sunday television program, Halo, Presidente! yesterday, he uttered the following immortal sentence:
"How long are we going to allow a person _ from any country in the world _ to come to our own house to say there's a dictatorship here, that the president is a tyrant, and nobody does anything about it?"
That falls into the same category as the (apocryphal) command: "Floggings will continue until morale improves."

Hat tip: Drudge
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