ABC’s Walters: Chavez for President

March 16th, 2007 4:34 PM
As already noted on NewsBusters, "20/20" anchor Barbara Walters interviewed Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for a segment airing on the March 16 edition of the program. And although she did occasionally challenge authoritarian leader, Walters spent much of the interview discussing important topics such as whether Chavez likes coffee, marriage, and generally regurgitating the Venezuelan President…

‘Passionate,’ ‘Dignified,’ ‘Intelligent,’… ABC Describes

March 16th, 2007 12:00 PM

AP Highlights How Guatemalans Will Purify Site After Bush's 'Bad Spiri

March 9th, 2007 8:59 PM

Hugo Chavez Censors Opposing Media, NPR Airs One Side: Censorship Defe

January 30th, 2007 1:57 PM

Chris Matthews Lists FNC's O'Reilly with Kim Jong-Il as among Worst De

January 2nd, 2007 4:24 PM
During the year-end awards edition of his weekly syndicated chat show, Chris Matthews asked his panel to vote on the “Dangerous Despot” of 2006, and then listed the nominees: North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il, Venezuelan boss Hugo Chavez, Iran’s nuclear-seeking threat Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — and Fox News Channel host Bill O’Reilly!“How in the hell did this guy get in there?” Matthews asked in mock…

Time's Person of the Year Nominees: THIS Is What We Have to Work With

December 8th, 2006 5:53 PM
Zheesh -- How about "None of the below": Slim pickings indeed. Perhaps we need to start looking for inanimate objects (e.g., 1982 - The Computer; 1988 - Endangered Earth), symbolic people (1950 - American Fighting Man; 1956 - Hungarian Freedom Fighter; 2003 - The American Soldier), or groups of people (1960 - US Scientists; 1966 - 25 and Under; 1969 - The Middle Americans; 1975 - American Women…

AP: Citgo Boycott Just Hurts Americans

November 5th, 2006 6:53 AM

Maher and Whitford: Thanks to Bush, Attacks on U.S. 'True' to Many and

September 23rd, 2006 2:06 AM

Assessing the anti-U.S. rants at the UN from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, on Friday night's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, Maher and actor Bradley Whitford contended President Bush's policies have legitimized the criticism of an arrogant U.S. abusing its power. Maher proposed: “Even though these guys are bad in a lot of ways, it is…

NPR's Nina Totenberg: We Made Hugo Chavez Into a Global Spectacle

September 22nd, 2006 10:46 PM

Chavez Revisited: MRC Study on 'Hugo the Boss

September 22nd, 2006 10:30 AM