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Jesse Jackson today speaks to Venezuela's National Assembly, where he condemned Pat Robertson's recent call for the United States to assassinate Hugo Chavez, the democratically elected president of Venezuela who refuses to lick U.S. ass.
Jesse redeems himself
Jesse Jackson has redeemed himself after his woefully misguided and uninformed support of the wingnuts in the Terri Schiavo fiasco in March. Jackson spoke to Venezuela's National Assembly today, condemning Pat "Assassinate-Him-No-I-Never-Said-That-I-Said-Kidnap-Him-Gee-I'm-Sorry-I-That-I-Said-That-We-Should-Assassinate-Him" Roberton's apparently Alzheimer's-induced call for the United States to off Venezuela's democratically elected Hugo Chavez because Chavez won't play nice with the plutocratic fascists that are running and ruining the United States.
Jackson appropriately called Robertson's comments "illegal" and "immoral." (And they were unfuckingChristian, too.)
"I hope the FCC does not remain silent regarding what Robertson said," Jackson added.
No, the Federal Communications Commission, being part of the fascist network in the United States, is perfectly OK with fascists' calls for assassination being carried over the public airwaves; just no titties!
The Associated Press reports that
In a speech to Venezuela's National Assembly, Jackson said every country has a right to self-determination, and touched on subjects from poverty to Martin Luther King Jr.'s role in the civil rights struggle of American blacks.
"Though our histories are burdensome with pain and often bitter memories, we must have the strength to get ahead and not just get even," Jackson said to a rousing applause from Venezuelan lawmakers.
Jackson later met and shook hands with Chavez during the Venezuelan leader's weekly radio and television program.
"Reverend Jackson, you can be sure that we will continue fighting for the ideas of Martin Luther King, for Christ the Redeemer's idea of loving one another and building a society of equals through our peaceful and democratic revolution," said Chavez.
He told Jackson he wanted to discuss the possibility of sending oil at preferential terms to poor communities in the United States.
Like the oily subsidiaries of BushCheneyCorp, who claim to love Americans so much (and the red-staters actually buy that, just as they buy that "President" Bush actually gives a shit about any of them), would allow that to happen.
The AP further notes that
Since taking office in 1999, Chavez has survived a 2002 coup, a 2003 strike and a recall referendum last year. He is up for re-election next year, and recent polls suggest he has a 70 percent approval rating.
Chavez must be doing something right for his people to have such a high approval rating -- just as there are good reasons that George W. Bush's approval ratings are so fucking low.
Meanwhile, back in the states, Marion Gordon (a.k.a. "Pat") Robertson's self-proclaimed ability to divert hurricanes seems to be on the fritz:
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Hurricane Katrina, which has threatened only red states, which I'm sure is only a coinky-dink, because God would never deliver death and destruction upon His Chosen Ones.
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