Hyperreal Film Club
Anti-American PR Move Is Near Biblical in Its Purity
RECEIVED Tue., Nov. 29, 2005
Dear Editor,
Could the irony be more poignant? Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, makes a deal to sell heating oil to the poor in Quincy, Mass., for a 40% discount. This is the same Hugo Chavez that religio-politician and close Bush ally Pat Robertson wants assassinated. He's the one the Bush administration sponsored a coup attempt against in 2002. The U.S. oil companies have taken no such steps to help the needy in our country who may well freeze to death this winter.
Read your Bible, Pat. In your own evangelical terms, you are convicted of sin. Proverbs 29:7, for example, says, the righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern. I guess it's true, Pat. By their fruits ye shall know them.
Could the irony be more poignant? Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, makes a deal to sell heating oil to the poor in Quincy, Mass., for a 40% discount. This is the same Hugo Chavez that religio-politician and close Bush ally Pat Robertson wants assassinated. He's the one the Bush administration sponsored a coup attempt against in 2002. The U.S. oil companies have taken no such steps to help the needy in our country who may well freeze to death this winter.
Read your Bible, Pat. In your own evangelical terms, you are convicted of sin. Proverbs 29:7, for example, says, the righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern. I guess it's true, Pat. By their fruits ye shall know them.
Ben Hogue