SocraticGadfly: Tom Friedman smears Venezuela

May 07, 2008

Tom Friedman smears Venezuela

Friedman claims that Venezuela is part of a sphere of non-democratic petro-autocracies.

No, Tom, no. Hugo Chavez willingly accepted that he did not win a referendum last year to expand his powers.

That said, Tom, your neo-neo friends inside the U.S. government, who backed the coup against Chavez four years ago, tried to make Venezuela into a non-democratic petro-autocracy, but you’ve seen fit not to mention that, either then or now.

Just remember that however flat the world is, it’s not as flat as Tom Friedman’s head.

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