Sep 28 2006
Citgo boycott: A productive protest or a waste of bandwidth?
Several times over the last year or so, Hugo Chavez has opened his pie hole and spewed some anti Bush or anti American vitriol. And each time his ranting has been reported, on its heels comes the call to Boycott his gasoline company, Citgo.
The latest round comes after Chavez decided to take the dignity of the UN, such as it is, and turn it into his personal anti Bush tirade. To recap:
Chávez Calls Bush ‘the Devil’ in U.N. Speech
President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela bitterly and sarcastically assailed President Bush before the United Nations General Assembly today, portraying Mr. Bush as “the devil” who thinks he is “the owner of the world.”
“Yesterday, the devil came here,” Mr. Chávez said, alluding to Mr. Bush’s appearance before the General Assembly on Tuesday. “Right here. Right here. And it smells of sulfur still today, this table that I am now standing in front of.”
And…
Chavez extends anti-Bush tirade on visit to Harlem
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez launched a new personal attack on President George W. Bush, using a visit to a church to call the US leader an "alcoholic" and a "sick man.
A day after Chavez used the UN bully pulpit to call Bush "the devil" a "tyrant" who acts like he owns the world — prompting broad condemnation in the United States — Chavez was equally vitriolic as he spoke at the Olivet Baptist church in the New York neighborhood of Harlem
"Bush is an alcoholic, a sick man with a lot of hang-ups," declared the left-wing Venezuelan leader. "He walks like John Wayne.
Bush "doesn’t know anything about politics, he got there because of Daddy," said Chavez, referring to Bush’s father, George Bush, US president from 1989 to 1993.
Ah, feel the love.
You can ready my thoughts on that here.
So I wasn’t all that surprised to see several prominent bloggers beginning to discuss the boycott of Citgo.
Now, as this is not a new thing, Snopes has already done a spread on what they think about the boycott idea, excerpted below:
