De repente se nos olvidó...
It's now been a month and a bit since the first and - AFAIK - the last broadcast of "Suddenly...Chávez", the "new" Chávez radio show launched with such fanfare ("as part of the artillery of thought") in early February. When you think about it, it's pretty amazing: the show was aired once before everyone forgot all about it never to speak of it again. Can the path from shiny new announcement to dustbin of collective Alzheimers really be that short? Really?!
Maybe it's not so surprising. The concept was, by all accounts, a monument to redundancy: There's nothing new about "Suddenly...Chávez" - that might as well be the motto of the last eleven years. You're listening to some music on the radio on your commute to work and suddenly...Chávez decides to have a Cadena for the next three hours. You're supporting your family with a jewellery store in downtown Caracas and suddenly...Chávez expropriates you. You vote for one guy to be mayor of your city and suddenly...Chávez decides to name one of his cronies to do the job.
Redundant though the entire concept was, I'm still a little bit staggered that the whole thing lasted literally one show. Which, I think, encapsulates chavista management pretty neatly. Take a half-baked idea, announce it with massive fanfare, then immediately forget all about it.
Por eso es que estamos como estamos, compa'e.
Kepler
Francisco Toro
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The chavista "artillery of thought"
was just blanks.
Anyway, has anyone ever gone through such great lengths as Chávez to avoid doing any actual working? All he ever does is talk, talk, and talk. Even narcissistic 15-year-old girls don't spend as much time talking as he does.
This pretty much sums it up
“Si para mantener la revolución tenemos que ser delincuentes, pues nos convertiremos en delincuentes”. ( "if, in order to support this revolution, we have to become criminals, then we will become criminals")
http://www.noticias24.com/actualidad/noticia/147397/
And Im sure this will also be forgotten by the people who support chavez, inside and outside venezuela (like a certain penndejo :p)
yes it is true these cadenas
yes it is true these cadenas come suddenly. At least when Hitler was to talk on German radio he was announced with the Waltz of Valkyries. Who knows, a bit of musica llanera before Chavez intervention might be in order.
Y "Las Lineas de Chavez"...
This post made me think about Chavez's newspaper column that he launched at the beginning of last year. He has actually been writing them (or at least dictating them) fairly regularly.
I tried reading then in the beginning. Writing is definitely not his medium. His lack of a coherent theme, semantic rigor, and logic is even more obvious in writing. Since the first one, I just couldn't be bothered to read any more of them. I found it more painful than watching Alo Presidente.
All of them are collected in a website: http://www.laslineasdechavez.com/
It is actually sort of interesting to review the comments. They have obviously been edited to allow only the pro-Chavez comments. Also, you can see that very few people visit the website. The hit counters on each article range from only a few hundred to a couple of thousand.
It might be fun for someone to see if they can get some left-handed complements past the editor of the website.
The end of the line...
Roy: the last of the "líneas" appeared almost at the same time as "Suddely... Chavez" was broadcast. I am unsure whether there is a relation between the two disappearance.
Thins will spring up. Just like Eva Golinger's facebook feed.