Hugo Chavez Shows American Conservatives How REALLY Oppressive Governments Deal With The Media

11:47 am EST June 5th, 2009 | News | 20 Comments

It won’t stop them from bellyaching about President Obama, but anyway.

The head of the only nationwide private TV station critical of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been charged with usury. Also Thursday, one of his homes was raided for the second time in two weeks.

Officials say Globovision President Guillermo Zuloaga, who also owns two Toyota dealerships, was accused of hoarding 24 cars at one of his properties, the official Venezuelan News Agency reported. In addition, Venezuelan authorities searched one of his homes to see if Zuloaga, an avid hunter, had killed any protected prey, Globovision reported.

Zuloaga denies the accusations, saying they are politically motivated.

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20 Responses to “Hugo Chavez Shows American Conservatives How REALLY Oppressive Governments Deal With The Media”

  1. Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle says:
    June 5, 2009 at 12:11 pm

    I bet the Cons have a grudging respect for Chavez. They secretly like him, it’s just that they don’t like his politics(obviously).

  2. SaveFarris says:
    June 5, 2009 at 12:27 pm

    It’s not conservatives who not-so-secretly like Chavez.

  3. Amused Observer says:
    June 5, 2009 at 12:36 pm

    Has anyone here save Farris taken note that Chavez is as left wing as can be. Nice pic of Obama in those links above.

  4. Dave in SoCal says:
    June 5, 2009 at 1:19 pm

    “I think it is probably important for anybody involved in this debate to be exceedingly careful with the way in which they’ve decided to describe different aspects of this impending confirmation,” – White House press secretary Robert Gibbs

    Give him time. ‘Ol Gibbsy is still getting his sealegs.

  5. PD100 says:
    June 5, 2009 at 1:21 pm

    Who would tolerate a foreign-funded television station intent on the overthrowing the government? Is Al Jazeera running 24-7 on U.S. broadcast airwaves?

  6. Dave in SoCal says:
    June 5, 2009 at 1:25 pm

    Hugo Chavez Shows American Conservatives How REALLY Oppressive Governments Deal With The Media

    Barack Obama Shows Socialist Dictators How REALLY Oppressive Governments Nationalize Major Industries

    Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday that he and Cuban ally Fidel Castro risk being more conservative than U.S. President Barack Obama as Washington prepares to take control of General Motors Corp.

    During one of Chavez’s customary lectures on the “curse” of capitalism and the bonanzas of socialism, the Venezuelan leader made reference to GM’s bankruptcy filing, which is expected to give the U.S. government a 60 percent stake in the 100-year-old former symbol of American might.

    “Hey, Obama has just nationalized nothing more and nothing less than General Motors. Comrade Obama! Fidel, careful or we are going to end up to his right,” Chavez joked on a live television broadcast.

  7. Colin says:
    June 5, 2009 at 2:29 pm

    What is the point of this post? That Obama is better than Chavez? Strikes me as setting the bar a bit low.

  8. El Cid says:
    June 5, 2009 at 3:26 pm

    Well, in Colombia, they’re a bit more indirect but a great deal more brutal.

    Let’s say the conservative government doesn’t like what you’re doing as a news organization or journalist.

    The state intelligence agency will use U.S. provided electronic surveillance equipment to illegally spy on you, and then the President’s adviser or defense minister will publicly allege that you’re a traitor who collaborates with FARC rebels so that the conservative ruling coalition’s friends in the death squad narco-paramilitaries will just publish your name on flyers or call you up and tell you that they’re getting ready to kill you.

    So, each country has its own style.

  9. Amused Observer says:
    June 5, 2009 at 3:35 pm

    “What is the point of this post? That Obama is better than Chavez? Strikes me as setting the bar a bit low.”

    I hope that isn’t the point but maybe it is. Is Oliver telling us that it is going to get a lot worse? That “we haven’t seen anything yet”.

  10. Duros62 says:
    June 5, 2009 at 3:59 pm

    Is Oliver telling us that it is going to get a lot worse? That “we haven’t seen anything yet”.

    Yes, that’s it exactly. Please to continue to tremble in fear and wet your beds, cons.

    Waahmbulances are standing by with haldol and xanax.

  11. Amused Observer says:
    June 5, 2009 at 4:06 pm

    LOL,
    I always suspected Duros would have a soft spot for a far left politician like Chavez. It meshes almost perfectly with his world view.

  12. B.BarNavi says:
    June 5, 2009 at 5:01 pm

    So how did Duros commenting on the absurdity of comparing Obama to Chavez become him liking Chavez?

  13. MatanteDodo says:
    June 5, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    So, because this man owns a TV station, usury and killing protected species is alright? Hey, I’m part of the opposition in my own country too, am I above the law?

  14. Duros62 says:
    June 5, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    That’s how they roll, B.
    Commenting=approval.

    I just like to see cons rocking back and forth in a fetal position, clutching their blankies.

  15. Parthenon says:
    June 5, 2009 at 5:59 pm

    Do you cons ever get tired of being terrified?

  16. Oliver Willis says:
    June 5, 2009 at 7:51 pm

    We’re going to need more beds, these are all wet.

  17. Zython says:
    June 6, 2009 at 7:53 pm

    What is the point of this post? That Obama is better than Chavez? Strikes me as setting the bar a bit low.

    Well, it’s better than when ultra-cons like yourself were comparing Bush to Saddam.

  18. SFC B says:
    June 7, 2009 at 9:10 am

    Where was the “this is how real oppressive governments operate” post during the “ZOMG!1!!!eleventy! ILLEGAL-WIRETAPPING!” conniption fit a few years back?

  19. News Reference says:
    June 7, 2009 at 10:46 am

    Republican President Bush’s illegal wiretapping was spying on journalists, “SFC B”, along with illegal spying on everyone else in our country.

    And while the right wing was cheering on illegal surveillance and even threatening the press for revealing Republican Bush’s illegal activities, the left was standing up for American principles of a free press and the right not to have an intrusive government prying into their personal business.

    Republicans were also suggesting that journalists should go to jail.

    Ironically, it was one of the Republican’s moles at the NYTimes that ended up doing prison time to protect the Republican government agents that were using them to push the lies that got US into the wrong war.

    It was a Republican prosecutor that had imprisoned the journalist for failing to give up their sources.

    Republicans were even using government connected retired military generals, with financial interests in corporations that had military contracts that were being reviewed by other Republicans in government, to put out Republican political messages on cable “news” shows to push for wars that would in turn increase the bottom line of those retired military general’s corporations.

    Republicans are exceptionally adept at using government power to alternately repress and manipulate the media.

    And of course if Dems ever used any of the methods that Republicons use(d), the right wing would go berserk.

    It’s Right Winger’s First Rule: Rules Are For Other People.

  20. Colin says:
    June 8, 2009 at 1:59 pm

    Well, it’s better than when ultra-cons like yourself were comparing Bush to Saddam.

    I did? Conservatives did?

    If memory serves me correctly only leader Bush was regularly compared to in those years was Hitler, and it wasn’t by the political right.