Viva el Chomsky!
Hugo Chavez, the wretched communist who runs Venezuela, had lots of fun at the expense of our President this past week, but he’s not exactly up on his current events:
At a news conference after his spirited address to the United Nations on Wednesday, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela expressed one regret: not having met that icon of the American left, the linguist Noam Chomsky, before his death.
Yesterday, a call to Mr. Chomsky’s house found him very much alive. In fact, he was struggling through “10,000 e-mails” he had received since the remarks by Mr. Chávez, who urged Americans to read one of Mr. Chomsky’s books instead of watching Superman and Batman movies, which he said “make people stupid.”
Is this a joke? Is Chavez so ignorant that he would fail to know such a vital statistic about a person whose book he very conspicuously waved around and praised during his outrageous address to the General Assembly?
Though, perhaps, it’s not so hard to understand, after all: most of the people Chavez reveres are either dead (e.g., Marx, Stalin, Guevara) or dying (e.g., Castro). Why shouldn’t the America-hating Chomsky be dead, too?
