Seeing straight...past the propaganda

marjorie says...

We are so propagandized in this country we can hardly see straight…it takes a supreme effort at times. What brings this up for me this morning? An article a friend emailed me about Hugo Chavez winning the UNESCO’s José Martí Prize, which is a prize awarded for contributions to “unity and integration of Latin America and the Carib-bean.” And the award was made in Havana no less.

Hmmm…could it truly be that the United Nations is honoring a despot at an awards ceremony in a totalitarian country that tortures its citizens??

Well, if you listen to the relentless U.S. media characterization of both Chavez and Cuba you’d probably think that.

But to the rest of the world we’re a bunch of nuts. After all, our Vice President is at this very moment lobbying Congress hard to *not* ban torture…