Salon is an online, tabloid style, magazine and President Trump’s capture of Maduro is their latest journalist crime. Frequently, we at Victory Girls Blog enjoy taking on Amanda Marcotte. She is such a Lefty that she spins in circles. Today, we are going to focus on Andrew O’Hehir, Executive Editor, with his article “Venezuela: Our criminal president’s latest crime scene”. The subheading is: “A blatantly corrupt, anti-democratic and illegitimate president stages a criminal coup. He’s not named Maduro.” Isn’t Mr. O’Hehir clever? Not.
First of all, this Salon editor should at least be un peu honest. Trump is not corrupt, anti-democratic or illegitimate by legal standards. He did not stage a criminal coup. President Trump warned Mr. Maduro that time was running out and that Maduro should find a solution soon. Maduro kept lollygagging. It was time for him to go.
O’Hehir of Salon has these two paragraphs at the beginning of the article:
Maduro was bad news, I suppose, but almost certainly wouldn’t have ranked among the world’s top five most disagreeable despots. Far more to the point, Maduro and his actual or alleged misdeeds are almost entirely irrelevant right now. Any effort to “well, actually” the shameful, shocking and blatantly illegal actions of the U.S. government this weekend should choke on the big lump of obvious hypocrisy caught in its throat.
It’s no good pondering whether what just happened in Venezuela was a “war crime” or mumbling about how perhaps Congress should have been notified. There has to be an actual war before you can have war crimes, brothers and sisters. These were just straight-up crimes, committed by a criminal president and a criminal regime, and the entire world knows it. Whatever Maduro may or may not have done has now disappeared into the background noise of bad historical pretexts, along with Vladimir Putin’s claim that Ukraine was being run by Nazis.
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