L'Arma Lethal de la Sur

[Matthew Carberry]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,274564,00.html

Hugo Chavez to Finance Danny Glover Movies
Tuesday, May 22, 2007

 CARACAS, Venezuela    Venezuela's Congress says it has approved financing for two films by actor Danny Glover, a close supporter of President Hugo Chavez.

The lawmaking body, which is closely allied with Chavez, said in a statement on its Web site Thursday that it approved $20 million for two Glover productions.

They include "The General in His Labyrinth," which deals with the life of South American liberator Simon Bolivar. It is based on a novel by Colombian Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez and will be directed by Venezuela-born director Alberto Arvelo.

The other is "Toussaint," which the statement said Glover plans to direct documenting the life of Haitian revolution leader Toussaint Louverture.

Government officials and Glover's representatives were not immediately available for comment.

The statement said that the funds will come from proceeds Venezuela obtained from a recent bond sale with Argentina.

Glover is among a number of high-profile U.S. supporters of Chavez. The group also includes singer Harry Belafonte and Princeton University scholar Cornel West, who have defended the Venezuelan president against accusations of democratic abuses.

Glover has met Chavez during visits to Venezuela and even appeared on his television and radio talk show, "Hello, President."

[Leatherneck]

Glover is among a number of high-profile U.S. supporters of Chavez. The group also includes singer Harry Belafonte and Princeton University scholar Cornel West,

Mom always told me you're judged by the company you keep.

TC

[Manedwolf]

Sounds like someone's trying to get on the no-fly list.

Wonder what he'll say when Chavez starts the pogroms to rid the nation of counterrevolutionary sorts.

[mountainclmbr]

Glover was also in Cuba groveling before Castro long before Michael Moore thought of it.

[tyme]

How is it remotely legitimate for a government to spend $10 million on a movie?

[K Frame]

Pity of it is that Danny Glover actually has some talent.

[Tallpine]

How is it remotely legitimate for a government to spend $10 million on a movie?

It is not legitimate.  However, it is legitimate to spend $100 billion invading another country

[Perd Hapley]

Tallpine.  Have you read your Constitution today?   

[Matthew Carberry]

How is it remotely legitimate for a government to spend $10 million on a movie?

It is not legitimate.  However, it is legitimate to spend $100 billion invading another country

And if you tack on an extra $10 mil to film it professionally for later release, that's just good business. 

[Tallpine]

Tallpine.  Have you read your Constitution today?

Why?  Have they changed it recently...?

[MechAg94]

So now taxi drivers have a reason to ignore him.   

[Paddy]

Constitution?   That archaic old document?  We can't let it get in the way of the WOT

[Matthew Carberry]

Sweet poster Riley.

Where'd you get it?

I love me some Photoshopped WWII propaganda posters.

[The Rabbi]

How is it remotely legitimate for a government to spend $10 million on a movie?

When it furthers the aims of that government.  How much money did the US spend on propaganda films for WW2?
Does anyone imagine Glover's film will have any hints of reproach against chavez?

[Manedwolf]

How is it remotely legitimate for a government to spend $10 million on a movie?

When it furthers the aims of that government.  How much money did the US spend on propaganda films for WW2?
Does anyone imagine Glover's film will have any hints of reproach against chavez?

History will be the judge. If Chavez, like all dictators, starts violently putting down those who peacefully oppose his regime, it will be recorded. And anyone who supported or was an apologist for him will look very poor, and will be looked upon with disgust by future generations.

They choose their own legacy by their actions.

[Matthew Carberry]

That's crazy talk.  Chavez will be forced into violence by the reactionary pawns of the United States.

Just like every dictator gone brutal, it will be a case of "look what you made me do."

It will be our fault, like always. 

[The Rabbi]

Actually Bush's.

[Perd Hapley]

Tallpine.  Have you read your Constitution today?

Why?  Have they changed it recently...?

So far as I know, things like warfare are still a constitutional use of federal funds.  Making movies doesn't get a mention, although Rabbi is probably right. 

[Manedwolf]

The fact I like to point out to the leftist morons who proclaim Chavez to be a peace-and-rainbows populist is that just at the end of last year, he purchased a hundred thousand AK-103s from Russia.

And whom do they suppose those are going to be used on? Why would a benevolent leader need all those (gasp) assault weapons, hmmmm?

A year's time, or perhaps two, or less, I'd be willing to bet you're going to see dramatic news graphics and music for the "Caracas Massacre"...or, well, the second one, actually, since he already kind of did one a few years ago when he was grasping for power...

[Matthew Carberry]

You're not getting it...

See, Bush is a jingoistic imperialist warmonger, knowing this, but unsure how to respond, the peace-loving Chavez, probably through the influence of unknown crypto-warmonger fifth columnists on his own staff, bought those evil assault rifles in the misguided belief they would help deter the inevitable US oil-based invasion without having to actually fight.

Unfortunately, as everyone knows, that many evil assault rifles in one place form a powerful vortex of violence, causing the otherwise pure, peaceful and innocent right-thinking socialists of Venezuela to gradually become more and more bloodthirsty and irresponsible.

So, if it wasn't for Bush and the unrestricted trade in small arms, the violence to come would never have happened.

[Manedwolf]

You're not getting it...

See, Bush is a jingoistic imperialist warmonger, knowing this, but unsure how to respond, the peace-loving Chavez, probably through the influence of unknown crypto-warmonger fifth columnists on his own staff, bought those evil assault rifles in the misguided belief they would help deter the inevitable US oil-based invasion without having to actually fight.

Unfortunately, as everyone knows, that many evil assault rifles in one place form a powerful vortex of violence, causing the otherwise pure, peaceful and innocent right-thinking socialists of Venezuela to gradually become more and more bloodthirsty and irresponsible.

So, if it wasn't for Bush and the unrestricted trade in small arms, the violence to come would never have happened.

The scary thing is that that's close to the rhetoric the leftists WOULD actually believe and use... 

[Matthew Carberry]

You're not getting it...

See, Bush is a jingoistic imperialist warmonger, knowing this, but unsure how to respond, the peace-loving Chavez, probably through the influence of unknown crypto-warmonger fifth columnists on his own staff, bought those evil assault rifles in the misguided belief they would help deter the inevitable US oil-based invasion without having to actually fight.

Unfortunately, as everyone knows, that many evil assault rifles in one place form a powerful vortex of violence, causing the otherwise pure, peaceful and innocent right-thinking socialists of Venezuela to gradually become more and more bloodthirsty and irresponsible.

So, if it wasn't for Bush and the unrestricted trade in small arms, the violence to come would never have happened.

The scary thing is that that's close to the rhetoric the leftists WOULD actually believe and use... 

I'm just setting the groundwork for a cushy career in the Ministry of Information if the other side wins.