And the crying season has begun.

I never read anything you post. It is always the same nonsense from the same source

Suit yourself, Stupidity.

That's not "fair."

Your hatred for democratic socialist governments is interesting. How could Capriles have gotten so many votes without any media backing in the Stalinist dictatorship of Venezuela? You all were salivating at the prospects of his actually winning. Odd, usually the dictators rake in 99%.

Perhaps you'd like to repost some unattributed graph again and make claims wildly outside what the authors were stating?

That's how.

Please tell me which media stations broadcasted Capriles' announcement to run.

Name them since the opposition's media broadcasting "thrives" in Venezuela.

You are so ignorant of the oppositions ability to affect the media in Venezuela that it is a joke.

But I wouldn't get too hopeful, yet. Fascists are clever and sneaky and unethical, and unstoppable by all but the most determined...

By the way, this go-for-broke tirade, this "hard-hitting" "news" article forgot to throw the fact Maduro once had a job as a bus driver out, to rake up a few snickers from the classist perverted right-wingers to relish.

Since when does a "hard-hitting" "news" story contain gibberish like "fawning video of Maduro handing out free government housing..."?

So professional!

I also love how they try to blame Chávez and his party for the incompetence of the opposition.

"Chavez's designated successor, Nicolas Maduro, and his ruling clique have repeatedly circumvented the constitution and exploited their monopoly on power to all but crush an opposition already crippled by years of government intimidation."

In Brazil, media uses this same argument to justifiy their bias and partisan behavior. Maria Judith Brito, chief-executive of the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo and president of the National Association of Newspapers make this "brilliant" statemant to explain their lack of professionalism:

"Freedom of the press is a greater good that must not be limited. To this general right, the countepoint is always the issue of the responsability of media. And, obviously, these media outlets are in fact assuming the oppositionist role in this country, since the opposition is deeply weakened."

http://oglobo.globo.com/politica/entidades-de-imprensa-fecomercio-estudam-ir-ao-stf-contra-plano-de-direitos-humanos-3037045

It's funny, because no one in Brazil remembers voting for her newspaper or any other to legitimize their role as that of a clandestine party. As Jorge Furtado puts it, the National Association of Newspapers should be questioning the morality of their affiliates assuming the "oppositionist role in this country" at the same time they allege to their readers that they are practicing "plural, non-partisan, unbiased journalism".

Sure, they put out a lot of noise and hot air, but people only have to know them, to know their history, to know their attitudes, to know their behavior, to know their deep filthy hatred for every one different from them to realize what a spectacle they make of themselves.

They show the world daily they have absolutely no sense of shame, they threw away their consciences long, LONG ago.

Real vicious trash, and not poor, little abused things.

The way that not a SINGLE commenter actually addressed the post. It's almost as if certain "progressives" are not as open minded or intellectual as they claim to be.

Just more of the pathetic and useless victimisation of their domestic coup-engaged press, statements without any kind of attribution or linked to any kind of source, no contradictory... propaganda, as usual.

Well i have always found your posts informative even when I disagree with them, so I will say "fair enough" to this answer.

Otherwise you'd have seen the direct attributions you declare aren't there.

When authoritarian goosesteppers can't refute the reports, they make a racket in a pathetic attempt to change the subject.

And they probably put on a little red beret when typing their hysterical responses to demonstrate their solidarity with a government that abuses its power and authority.

That about sums it up. Thrown on ignore lists, thrown under the bus as a "right winger" (one of the posters who told me to "go back to Free Republic" is posting in this very thread), maligned, insulted.

All for small criticism.