Parade Magazine Declares Chavez A Funder of "Terrorists"

Apparently, Parade Magazine, the ordinarily vacuous little rag that answers celebrity questions and the like has gone political. This sage bit of doggerel appeared in the Parade Magazine that arrived this morning (Sunday, 10/9) in my local paper. Speaking of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the magazine snarked on page 1: "He's funding revolutionaries and terrorists throughout Latin America."

For starters, there's not an iota of proof he's doing anything of the kind. It is true that he's close to Castro. That does not equate to "funding revolutionaries and terrorists."

Feel free to drop this "publication" a line, telling them they can't get away with just making calumnies up out of whole cloth. The website is http://www.parade.com Apparently, the contact person is one Walter Scott.

Let's see if we can generate a response.

I forget his real name, but he's a total asshole. I stopped reading Parade because of him. Thanks to you, I'll tell them now.

Bill

Why do we let the MSM to provide a forum to lying sacks of shit like Robertson? For how long must we sit back and allow corporations to own the news media? When are the people going to take back the airwaves that belong to us, and throw the corporatists out of the newsrooms?

money too, just like bush's grandfather.

These people rely on dumbass Americans that don't do their homework.
How the hell would HE KNOW?

But, BTW! George Bush gave OBL his FREEDOM.

to well-written objections posted to their advertisers. Dell, for instance, has a full page ad opposite the subject of this thread. Also present in this issue, among others: Lowe's/Electrolux, Lunesta, the American Heart Association and Depends.

There's a really great one-liner about the Depends and right wing "thought," but I can't quite reach it.

:evilgrin:

maybe some articles are only in the print version, but walter scott's column this week seems to deal with the musicians in elvis's original band.

He also answers one about where Castro gets his money. The remark is in there.

Here's the text:

"In addition to shoring up Castro, he's funding revolutionaries and terrorists throughout Latin America."

Consider this in light of the accusation by Radical American Fundamentalist Cleric Marion "Pat" Robertson recently (after the assassination brou-ha-ha) that Chavez gave $1.2 Million to "al-Qaeda."

This is getting just a little to coincidental to suit me. Coffee and Yellowcake, anyone?

equate castro with terrorism.

especially given the fact that we're harboring an anti-castro terrorist even as we write. Can't recall the name, but he fled Venezuela after being implicated in a bomb plot.

The first is wanted for the bombing of a Cuban airplane killing all 73 people on board, including the entire Cuban national fencing team.

The second was convicted in Miami of firing a bazooka at a Polish freighter in the harbor, and also was involved in the bombing of a Cuban airplane.

though. I 'knew' it however this blatant propaganda push for the Administration reveals it in Dolby sound.

although they would probably categorize themselves as "patriotic".

Think of them as Katie Couric saying "Navy Seals ROCK!", totally missing that point that the whole purpose of Navy Seals is to be covert assasins.

And, see, this is how the propaganda office of the White House operates. You plant little stories like this in amongst quips about whether Nicole Kidman is dating Keith Urban, which acting coach Brad Pitt and Charlize Theron studied with, whatever happened to Elvis' first back-up band and there you go.

Honestly! In the midst of all that vapid CRAP, do you really think someone wrote to this cretin to ask him for a political factoid? Smells like a plant to me

Geez, this country was founded by revolutionaries.

and noticed the same thing.

Parade has been showing their bias in a number of ways lately. Walter Scott has sounded very shrill and does not get his "facts" straight. He has the nerve to talk about Chavez funding terrorists. Why doesn't he mention Poppy Bush and the Iran-Contra deals?

Prescott Bush and Fritz Thyssen and Union Banking Corp and Silesian-American?

Scott is pretty damn hypocritical, isn't he? I think he really jumped the shark this time, though. I'm going to write to my local paper (Pittsburgh Post Gazette).

I'm doing the same thing with the Charleston Sunday Gazette-Mail, in addition to lambasting the little right-wing puke himself and his editors.

We get USA Today Weeekend. Not perfect, but a hell of alot better than "Propaganda".

stop reading shit like that? (i.e. Parade).

If it weren't Parade it would be something else.

Seems to me, there's gotta be some kind of commitment to better education in American schools... esp. High Schools... about the world. American kids know NOTHING about the rest of the world. They grow to be adults. They buy Parade. Or tune in Hannity. Or watch Springer-like shows.

The astonishing ignorance that Americans have about the rest of the world has to be addressed at a fundamental level.

"fundamental." :)

I understand your point.

I've always thought Parade was made for that first trip to the W/C on Sunday morning. Parade is to Journalism what Peeps are to Food.

I think the gist of your complaint lies not in the fact that people read this tripe, but that they're unable to read it critically. Critical reading has always been tough in American schools, since they've become such a mine-field.

My Dog, but look at what they're trying to do to critical reasoning with this dadgummed silly snake-oil show called Intelligent Design. There's the absolute last nail in the coffin of the enlightenment and critical reasoning.

"Teacher, why does that frog have such long, hoppity legs?"

"Because he's a little miracle, Johnny. Now get back to today's biology lesson: Chapter sixteen of First Flipfloppians."

And I NEVER resort to the scatological. But in the case of Parade , it is precisely the right word.

Seriously... more than "they can't read it critically", it's their lack of simple *curiosity* about the world.

It is scary. It's not that they don't know Outer Mongolia; they don't know where *Viet Nam* is. They can't find it on a map.

They don't know how to pronounce eye-RACK,know nothing of it's people or history and are not interested in learning. Yet they have formed an opinion about our government's activity there.

Scary stuff. Looks like it will get worse before it can get better.

They lie about other countries, and won't tell the truth about Bush's administration. Ya gotta love it.

Thats the thing in the paper that I put under the catbox liner, right?

Regular newsprint is much more absorbant.

Parade's stock is too thin, and is coated with too much ink to be of much use.

http://www.offthekuff.com/mt/archives/002079.html

Scott has been a contributor to the rag mag since 1982--time for greener pastures dino?

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Cluelessness on parade
The following question and answer appears in "Walter Scott's Personality Parade" in today's Parade magazine:


>Q. In your opinion, will ex-Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's liberal positions help or hurt his odds of winning the 2004 Democratic Presidential nomination?

A. Dean, 54, is probably too liberal even for the party activists who dominate the primaries. But what is likely to do him more harm than his political positions is his short temper. An extremely bright individual, Dean does not suffer fools gladly - and politics is filled with fools.


That first sentence packs more ignorance per word than just about anything I've seen lately. Where to begin?<

same jingoism and puff piece content

for people whose lips move while they read. :evilgrin:

Potential parrot cage liner, at best.

I don't complain about something until I have actually read it.

only shows Scot's blather on Elvis.

If you look back up the thread, however, you'll note that I took time to quote the piece directly.

Nah, instead of that, let me quote the entire Q/A exchange:

"Q: I'm interested in where Fidel Castro gets the dough to shore up his bankrupt regime. Can you illuminate? -Robert Henry, Los Angeles, Calif.

A: In the wake of the collapse of the USSR, which bankrolled him to the tune of $4 billion a year, Castro has turned to Hugo Chavez, Marxst president of Venezuela, the world's fifth-largest oil exporter. In addition to shoring up Castro, he's funding revolutionaries and terrorists throughout Latin America."

If you look at it critically, the exchange has all the earmarks of a Repiglican P.R. smear: use of the word "dough" (haven't seen that one since I put down my last Raymond Chandler novel), "bankrupt regime" (Karl Rove couldn't have written it better); guilt by association (notice that Scott infers that Chavez is giving as much money to Castro as the Soviets did); invective (can't say "president" w/o putting Marxist in front of it); negative phraseology ("shoring up," not "lending money" or even "giving money"), and then, finally, the coup de grace "funding revolutionaries and terrorists," the identical claim that Pat Robertson himself just made in the last few days.

At the risk of sounding black helicoptery, it's not a coincidence.

Yesterday, "Does Lindsay Lohan have implants?"

Today, "cutting edge political analysis"

And FWIW, alot of countries have relations with Cuba - in the US that is demonically referred to as being "close to Castro."

Nevermind that we know Castro's every move before he makes it, much like we did with Saddam.