Today's Nuze: May 29, 2007 

HUGO CHAVEZ AND THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE

Jealousy is an ugly thing.  And jealousy is especially ugly when you have freely elected leaders from a country that prides itself on a dedication to freedom and individual liberty being openly jealous of a dictator.

Such is the case with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez.

Hugo the Horrible has now accomplished in Venezuela what Democrats only wish they could accomplish here at home.  He has silenced a broadcast outlet that was critical of his regime.  Sunday night Venezuela's most popular television station went off the air.  Why?  Because Chavez decided that their broadcast license would not be renewed. Radio Caracas Television was the only TV station in Venezuela that was broadcast nationwide ... and Radio Caracas Television was critical of Hugo Chavez. 

Are you starting to get the picture here?

Chavez says he is "democratizing" the public's airways.  He also said that this TV station was a threat to his country.  Wow!  Now doesn't that sound very much like the things that the left is saying about talk radio in the U.S.? 

What Chavez accomplished by edict the left in this country hopes to accomplish through legislation and regulation. 

Just be patient, my friends on the left.  Your time is coming.  The impotent Republicans pose no threat to you in 2008.  In the meantime, just sit back and admire your friend Hugo.

We should note that Venezuelans are protesting Chavez' actions.  He'll tolerate some protests --- but let's hope these people know just how far they can push it.  My wife and I were being shown around Caracas many years ago when we noticed some demonstrators.  It was quite a spectacle to watch ... until the gunfire started.  Our guide rushed us into a building to keep us safe. 

How soon before Chavez answers these protestors with gunfire?

Hold on another second here.  We can't let this segment go without mentioning that Hugo Chavez is the hero of such great Americans as Cindy Sheehan (see below), Danny Glover, Harry Belafonte and others.  Great Americans all.  Coming soon, don't miss Michael Moore's exciting documentary on the evils of Radio Caracas Television!

AGREEING WITH OWLGORE

Thank goodness today isn't Monday.  I don't know if I could handle agreeing with OwlGore on a Monday. 

Gore has a new book out there titled "The Assault on Reason."  While on the book-signing circuit Gore has been heard to say that we Americans are consumed by the  "trivialities and nonsense" of celebrity gossip in the media.  He specifically mentions stories about Paris Hilton going to jail or Britney Spears shaving her head.

In short .. who cares?

Gore says that there we are experiencing a "destruction of the boundary between news and entertainment" and that we are "vulnerable as a democracy to mass and continuing distraction."

Well said, OwlGore!  Perhaps you could also have pointed out that more Americans get their daily dose of news from Extra and Entertainment Tonight than from CBS, NBC and ABC news combined!

You're still all wet on that man-made global warming ....... oops, I mean "climate change" ..... thingy. 

OUR UNION FRIENDS ... PURSUING THE POWER PLAY!

Unions are getting desperate.  There used to be a time in America when the majority of U.S. workers in manufacturing and other industries were proud union members.  No more.  Now the only place where union membership is actually growing is in the so-called "public sector."  That, for those of you who went to government schools, would be government.  It seems that more and more Americans have come to recognize unions as part of the war on individualism.  Membership continues to drop. 

Fear not, union fans!  There's a plan afoot!  Just do away with union elections!

The idea now being pushed in congress is to allow unions to organize a workplace without an election.  This would circumvent  the laws that have been in place since 1935's National Labor Relations Act.  The new idea is for something called "card checks." Rather than voting via secret ballot, this bill, called the Employee Free Choice Act, would allow unions to use "authorization forms" instead of an election with secret ballots.  The difference?  You can intimidate someone into signing an authorization form.  It's hard to intimidate a worker when they're casting a secret ballot. The entire premise of fair and open elections is curbed so that unions can have more influence over your vote, which is all they ever want from employees.  

And unions, yet again, feel that they are above the democratic process. They feel that collective bargaining is "better" for all, and that you should not have the right to act as an individual and make individual choices that might make your life better, compared to your fellow workers. There is a reason that we vote in secret-but clearly, unions will forever be tied to their communist mentality.

TIME TO RETIRE!  DON'T LET THE DOORKNOB HIT YOU ON YOUR WAY OUT.

Cindy Sheehan is saying good-bye to America as the face of the American anti-war movement, and I have two words for her: good riddance. In a desperate letter released on Memorial Day, Sheehan takes the time to criticize America's two-party system, highlight the "sacrifices" she has made, reiterate her disillusionment with the American political system and (now this is really exciting) announce the sale of her Crawford, TX property, Camp Casey.  

Let's take a moment to re-cap Sheehan's contributions to society. Well first and foremost, we can't forget that she labeled George Bush as "the biggest terrorist in the world." She openly supports the goals of Islamic jihadists calling them "freedom fighters." Not to mention that her best buddy is Venezuela's anti-American, socialist leader Hugo Chavez. Sheehan has said, "I admire him for his resolve against my government and its meddling." Fantastic stuff.  

Another interesting part of Sheehan's little diary entry to America is her criticism of the American two-party system.

"People of the world look on us Americans as jokes because we allow our political leaders so much murderous latitude and if we don't find alternatives to this corrupt "two" party system our Representative Republic will die and be replaced with what we are rapidly descending into with nary a check or balance: a fascist corporate wasteland."

Clearly, Cindy has absolutely no understanding of how we evolved into a two-party system in America to begin with (learn some history, Cindy). But people look at America as a "joke" because of moonbats like Sheehan undermining every ounce of respect for our military and country. And if she wants to learn something about fascism, perhaps she should take come lessons from her comrade Chavez. And as for the "corporate wasteland," well she better be thanking her lucky stars to be in a highly developed country like America that allows for crazies like her to run her trap and be protected under the laws of this free and democratic nation. AMF Cindy...we won't be missin ya!

MORE ON THE AMNESTY BILL 

Amnesty didn't work before, and it sure as hell isn't going to work now. Reagan signed an amnesty bill back in 1986, which said it would strengthen the borders, punished employers of illegal immigrants and give amnesty to illegal immigrants that were already here. Of course, Clinton jumped on board to give amnesty to thousands of illegals for the election in 1996, but the other, far more important part-border security-was never strengthened. In the end, identifications became really easy to forge, the border was virtually unprotected and there was no way to punish employers who accepted the forged documents.

Michael Barone says is well: "the apparatus of state has proved weaker than market forces." So now that we understand this concept, why are we still going to try for a policy that will not work, and should not be allowed in the first place? Strengthen the borders and make Americans get off their lazy butts, turn off American Idol, get off of welfare and fill the demand of these market forces. There is a way to make America stronger out of all of this immigration non-sense, but politicians are too afraid to ask their districts to do anything and would rather grant citizenship to criminals.

Perhaps one of the best columns I've read on the entire amnesty issue was penned by Peggy Noonan.  First I want to share just three paragraphs from Noonan's column with you:

"We should stop, slow down and absorb. We should sit and settle. We should do what you do after eating an eight-course meal. We should digest what we've eaten.

We should close our borders. We should do whatever it takes to close them tight and solid. Will that take the Army? Then send the Army. Does it mean building a wall? Then build a wall, but the wall must have doors, which can be opened a little or a lot down the road once we know where we are. Should all legal immigration stop? No. We should make a list of what our nation needs, such as engineers and nurses, and then admit a lot of engineers and nurses. We should take in what we need to survive and flourish.

As we end illegal immigration, we should set ourselves to the Americanization of the immigrants we have. They haven't only joined a place of riches, it's a place of meaning. We must teach them what it is they've joined and why it is good and what is expected of them and what is owed. We stopped Americanizing ourselves 40 years ago. We've got to start telling the story of our country again."

Exactly!  Stop the flood, then try to figure out what to do with all the water you have standing around. 

Now ... take a moment to read the rest of this excellent column.

Another gem from The Neal Boortz Show's own editorial cartoonist.

MISSING THE POINT ENTIRELY

It was Sunday morning and I was working out at a hotel spa.  There was the usual bank of televisions over the ellipse machines, but I had no headphones so I couldn't hear what was being said.   The story looked quite contentious.  First you would see a group of brown men doing landscape work.  Then you would see a group of black men doing road work.  Then there was a black woman talking.  Again, I couldn't hear, but she looked just a bit aggravated.  Then the title of the story appears at the bottom of the CNN screen.  I can't remember it exactly, but the story was evidently about whether or not one race has a reputation for having a better work ethic than another.

Again, I couldn't hear the interviews or the angry black woman (I think she was saying something about stereotyping)  .. but I suspect the story dealt with the perception that Hispanics have a higher work ethic than do blacks.  I can easily understand why this upsets some.

Here's your reality.  The question of who has the better work ethic isn't a racial one.  It's a cultural one.  Culture plays a major role in determining who will work hard and who will not.  Race plays no role at all. 

Take a look at many second-generation Hispanics in our country.  Their fathers and mothers came here eager and ready to work hard, to put in sixty or more hours a week.  There's your much-vaunted Hispanic work ethic.  First-generation immigrants, legal and illegal.  But check out the second generation.  Take a hard look at the children of those who's work ethic we so admired.  Are they out there working as hard and as long as their parents did?  Some, sure.  But this is also where you're finding the members of the spreading Hispanic gangs.  By the second generation the work ethic starts to dwindle .. though they're just as Mexican, Columbian or Ecuadorian as they're parents were?  Race?  Hardly.  Try culture.  Many in the second and subsequent generations of Hispanics soon gravitate toward the culture of victimization and entitlement.  "Work?  For those wages?  You've got to be kidding me!  Justice for janitors!!!"

Do you believe that the lack of a driving work the ethic among many young black males is based on their skin color?  Guess again!  Check out black immigrants; blacks who have come to this country where oppression was the order of the day an opportunity was just a five syllable English word.  Have you ever noticed that so many of the blacks working behind the counters at convenience stores have what we might call funny accents?  They're not from around here, you know.  They're from places like Uganda, Nairobi, Liberia and Haiti.  When's the last time you caught a cab ride with a black driver born in the United States?  That's hard, grueling work that doesn't pay all that well.  Add in the element of danger and you find the list of applicants is a bit thin.  Go ahead, ask your next cab driver where he's from .  Chances are he's not going to tell you he was born in Detroit. 

Second generation?  More of the same.  Many of the children of black immigrants, like their Hispanic counterparts, have adopted the roles of victims of a racist society and have started to gain perfection in the language of entitlement.

So, why the concentration on race?  Why didn't CNN ask whether or not some cultures encourage and tolerate dependency and criminality while others promote hard work and self-reliance?  Could political correctness be the answer?

When it comes to the difficulties facing blacks in America today it is very politically incorrect to suggest that these problems arise from anything other than our racist society.  The same is true, though to a lesser extent, when it comes to Hispanics.  You dare not, for instance, assign disparities in educational achievement to anything other than racism and discrimination.  Mention the anti-achievement culture in education (studying and doing well on tests is a "white thing") and stand by for the counterattack. 

And why is it this way?  Why must we all believe that economic and cultural disparities are caused by racism?  Could it be because race is something that one cannot change about one's self, while negative aspects of one's cultural upbringing can be changed?  Why, after all, take the responsibility for changing when you can just as easily blame your problems on your skin color.

I think the producers at CNN realized all of this.  They just had a politically correct statement to make. 

BARRY BONDS   

Closing in on Hank Aaron's record.  Why can't Major League Baseball do something here?  Not only did Bonds get a lot of help from the wonderful world of chemistry in his home run chase, but he's also a world-class void surrounded by a sphincter muscle.  After all, how many college players do you know who had to be saved by his coach when his own team voted to get rid of him.

Aaron is doing the right thing by ignoring Bonds.  We should follow suit.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Some of you, perhaps many of you, might want to actually take a moment and read an excellent essay on the essential difference between the left and the right in America today.  This is a real though-provoking column, more than worthy of your attention.  Essentially Peter Berkowitz is saying that the debate today is on the right, not on the left. 

Cindy Sheehan is stepping down.  She's going to "take whatever I have left and go home."  She says she is going to give p trying to help people in the world who are harmed by the "empire of the good old US of A."  Here's her resignation letter.

Let's see ... do we have more news from the anti-war left?  Why yes we do!  What have these champions of peace gone and done in Washington state?  Why, they've gone and burned American flags that decorated the graves of veterans.  They replaced some of the flags with Nazi Swastikas.  But ... remember this.  It is the right that is full of hate, not the left.  Got that? 

Let's see ... it's the end of May.  Spring has been with us for a while.  June is but days away.  And in England they're predicting snow!  Durned global warming. 

The U.S. and Iran meet to discuss Iraq, which Iran labels as a U.S. occupation.  Actually .. the meeting showed some promise.  One of my favorite sayings:  "The best way to get rid of an enemy is to make a friend out of him."

Republican candidate Mike Huckabee on Fox News talking about the FairTax.  More!  We need more!

Hugo Chavez officially shut down a TV station in Venezuela, simply because it criticized his socialist administration.

Now this is a surprise.  Some had written Spain off after they surrendered to Islamic terrorists following the train bombings in Madrid.  Now Spain arrests terrorist recruiters who were sending jihadists to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Is there hope?

Liberal hypocrisy on the campaign trail.

A man wrestles a wild leopard that leapt into his bedroom window.  Or would that be leaped?  Let's just stick with "jumped." 

That's a lot of lizard!  I'm not sure, but I think its name was Rosie.

Oops...this definitely wouldn't be the way I would choose to be arrested.  You don't suppose this particular Islamic goon is a Hugh Grant fan, do you?

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