At the summit of the Americas, the now famous interactions of Hugo Chavez and Barack Obama were not just for propaganda purposes. While Chavez, Castro and Ortega declared mastery over Obama and all things American, the President was actually getting tips from Chavez on how to regularly show up on prime time television to denounce his political enemies without seeming to control the media. The book Chavez gave the President actually was a primer on how to denounce one's enemies while having the academic elites fawn all over your humility and passion for the "truth."
Like a good student, Obama was on prime-time last night for the 3rd time in as many months denouncing any dissent as partisan roadblocks and blaming any shortcomings on the previous corrupt administration. Compare this to Clinton's first term where he was on prime-time twice in 4 years. Papa Chavez must be beaming. Obama has received twice as much coverage in the media as Bush and Clinton combined over their first hundred days with 60% positive coverage (Clinton only received 44% positive).
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