It's Ruthless Tyrant Week!
We've had our fill of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But there's more on the front of tyrannical rulers! Hugo Chavez -- meeting with Kevin Spacey, the latest dingleheaded actor to worship at the Temple of Hugo -- may have ditched the U.N. General Assembly this week, but his minions took out a full-page ad in the New York Times today calling for Americans to throw our democratic notions by the wayside and embrace solidarity with Chavez's Bolivarian revolution.
There's a good reason why -- after all, Chavez is, according to his own humble estimation, like Russell Crowe in "Gladiator" (though significantly less attractive in a skirt):
"'Gladiator' - What a movie! I saw it three times," the president tells an Associated Press reporter traveling with him in a Toyota 4Runner, along with his daughter and a state governor. "It's confronting the empire, and confronting evil. ... And you end up relating to that gladiator."
Did Hugo miss what happened to the wicked, megalomaniac head of state in that movie?
Look, it was bad enough Spacey made us mess of Bobby Darrin's life in that horrid bio-pic-of-a-disaster he (Spacey) directed.
But, my Gawd!!! This is an entirely more idiotic and dangerous move. Geez! Why is it that some of these Hollywood types think because they are good at pretending on film that that skill translates to messing with world affairs?
I'm totally befuddled.
He and Penn were fortunate to grow up in the the cacoon of Southern California (Penn the Valley & Malibu/Spacey the Valley). They have no idea of life under a dictatorship.
They are so naively clueless it hurts!!
Now, Maria Conchita Alonso I'll listen to. She's an actress that knows of what she speaks.
http://elcubanocafe.blogspot.com/2007/04/maria-conchita-alonso-vs-hugo-chavez.html
Sadly, Chavez has more Hollywood supporters than Fred Thompson, who has virtually no high-profile supporters because he's a Republican.
I'm not supporting Thompson, but it's scary that we have so many actor/director fools who feel the need to use their fame as performers to convey to an anti-American dictator like Chavez that he is just as right as he thinks he is.
To be opposed to Bush is one thing, but there is no possible US government who Chavez would support or vv.