{"id":3003,"date":"2004-12-15T04:01:42","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T11:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/12\/fits-of-laughter\/"},"modified":"2004-12-15T04:01:42","modified_gmt":"2004-12-15T11:01:42","slug":"fits-of-laughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/15\/fits-of-laughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Fits of Laughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tMarc Cooper reports that Hugo Chavez will receive the presigious <a href=\"http:\/\/marccooper.typepad.com\/marccooper\/2004\/12\/weekend_reading.html\"> Ghadafy Human Rights Award<\/a> for his efforts in media censorship:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Venezuelan con man, Bolivarian Revolutionary, Great-Thinker and sitting President<strong> Hugo Chavez<\/strong> has just returned home from a tour of showcase democratic countries including Cuba, Iran and Libya. Chavez dropped in on <strong>Colonel Ghadafy<\/strong>, by the way, to pick up his prize as this year?s winner of the <a href=\"http:\/\/mathaba.net\/x.htm?http:\/\/mathaba.net\/0_index.shtml?x=85568\">Ghadafy Human Rights Award<\/a>. No, I?m not making this up. Seems that Chavez had to rush home to enact a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/12\/09\/international\/americas\/09venez.html?ex=1260334800&amp;en=9e39bcdfe63c8f74&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland\">press censorship law<\/a>. This one?s no laughing matter?drawing a rebuke from Reporters Without Borders and Human Rights Watch among others. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beautifulhorizons.net\/weblog\/2004\/12\/chvez_assault_o.html\">Randy Paul<\/a>, as usual, has all the dope.<\/p>\n<p>No question that the Bushies don?t like Chavez. Hardly reason, though, for the rest of us to like this clown or, worse, apologize for his continuing thuggish deportment. Nice going, Randy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doktorfrank.com\/\">Dr. Frank.<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Cooper reports that Hugo Chavez will receive the presigious Ghadafy Human Rights Award for his efforts in media censorship: Venezuelan con man, Bolivarian Revolutionary, Great-Thinker and sitting President Hugo Chavez has just returned home from a tour of showcase democratic countries including Cuba, Iran and Libya. Chavez dropped in on Colonel Ghadafy, by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/15\/fits-of-laughter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fits of Laughter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Mr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}