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Friday, November 28, 2008 12:00 AM

Mumbai, the NYT's revisionism, and lessons not learned

The Times' Editorial Page blames the Bush administration for "blessing" the military coup against Hugo Chavez without mentioning that it did the same. Why does that matter?

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  • Friday, November 28, 2008 09:05 AM

    So the "solution" to things like this

    In the meantime, the housewives of Caracas are faced with runaway inflation and massive food shortages.

    Is a military coup? Is that what you're saying? And if so, I assume that you would support it here in the US? Which, you would have to agree, means that you reject the constitution utterly, or at least view it as a VERY "living" document that can be "interpreted" as one wishes? Which makes you a genuine "conservative" exactly how?

    As usual, people who refer to themselves as "conservatives" are nothing but, their "thinking" rife with obvious and unresolvable self-contradictions that utterly discredit their "ideology", movement and selves. (Which also explains the silly ad homs about "libruls".)

    To be a conservative is to be a living joke.

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