Hugo Chavez talks with Courtney Love at an Oliver Stone Screening

[LeninistKing]

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez turns on the charm for Courtney Love at Oliver Stone screening

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Sunday, September 27th 2009, 9:38 AM


http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/09/27/alg_chavez-love.jpg Flirty Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez invited rocker Courtney Love to visit him in Caracas at the New York premiere of Oliver Stone's 'South of the Border.'

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Courtney Love (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Courtney+Love) is still floating on the charm offensive that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Hugo+Chavez) launched at Wednesday's screening of Oliver Stone (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Oliver+Stone)'s new documentary, "South of the Border." The singer, who came dressed to thrill in a short zipper-front skirt, says she noticed the twice-divorced Chavez checking her out during a Q&A afterward.

"It was the third wink that sold me," Mrs. Kurt Cobain (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Kurt+Cobain) told us. "He's a sexy dawg. He invited me to visit his country and I'd like to go. I'll rock Caracas (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Caracas)!"

The ebullient, espresso-sipping Chavez also had smooches and smiles for Susan Sarandon (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Susan+Sarandon), Danny Glover (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Danny+Glover), Shia LaBeouf (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Shia+LaBeouf) and Carey Mulligan (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Carey+Mulligan). But, when we asked him about his feelings for Barack Obama (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Barack+Obama), he admitted to mixed emotions.

"He is still an enigma to me," said Chavez. "There are two Obamas so far. One Obama promotes peace. The other Obama promotes new military bases in Colombia (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Colombia). Let's see which one wins. I hope it will be the Obama who says the U.S. (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/United+States) cannot impose anything on any country. Meanwhile, the Pentagon (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/The+Pentagon) supports coup leaders in Honduras (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Honduras)."

Stone, whose flick follows his meetings with seven Latin American leaders, concurred that Obama seems to be hostage to "the permanent government that oppresses South America (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/South+America). Obama talks the game - let him do it."

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/09/27/2009-09-27_venezuela_president_hugo_chavez_turns_on_the_ch arm_for_courtney_love_at_oliver_s.html#ixzz0fFwbpC MR (http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/09/27/2009-09-27_venezuela_president_hugo_chavez_turns_on_the_ch arm_for_courtney_love_at_oliver_s.html#ixzz0fFwbpC MR)

[GPDP]

The ebullient, espresso-sipping Chavez also had smooches and smiles for Susan Sarandon (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Susan+Sarandon), Danny Glover (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Danny+Glover), Shia LaBeouf (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Shia+LaBeouf) and Carey Mulligan (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Carey+Mulligan). But, when we asked him about his feelings for Barack Obama (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Barack+Obama), he admitted to mixed emotions.

"He is still an enigma to me," said Chavez. "There are two Obamas so far. One Obama promotes peace. The other Obama promotes new military bases in Colombia (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Colombia). Let's see which one wins. I hope it will be the Obama who says the U.S. (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/United+States) cannot impose anything on any country. Meanwhile, the Pentagon (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/The+Pentagon) supports coup leaders in Honduras (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Honduras)."


He's talking about Obama the idea and Obama the president of the American empire. It doesn't take a political scientist (or one in training like myself) to figure out which one is actually in control.


Stone, whose flick follows his meetings with seven Latin American leaders, concurred that Obama seems to be hostage to "the permanent government that oppresses South America (http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/South+America). Obama talks the game - let him do it."And talk is all there is to Obama's "game." But leave it to a Hollywood liberal to buy into the bullshit that Obama is a "progressive" oppressed by the system he heads.

[RadioRaheem84]

:blushing: Why Hugo? Why? Courtney Love? The Even Stevens kid? Well I am glad that Stone is at least trying to show people that Chavez is not a dictator and there are some great democratic things going in Venezuela.

[RadioRaheem84]

And talk is all there is to Obama's "game." But leave it to a Hollywood liberal to buy into the bullshit that Obama is a "progressive" oppressed by the system he heads.

Stone even thought that of Nixon.

[scarletghoul]

The people in the comments have it spot on, as usual :

....Where were the rest of the Hollywood Commies?.....Smoozing in North Korea...or worshipping a Michael Moore propaganda film????....This is the reason why I watch almost no modern Hollywood movies. I stick to the old ones when the actors were mostly drunks and not in drugs, deviant sex, and Socialist Fascist politics.

Pedro, my hat's off for you my friend, very well said. I am not the author of this post, however, it was clear and short and straight to the point so I borrow it to share i with everyone. Mr. Stone, I haven’t seen your documentary “South of the Border” but from articles already circulating over the web I can see where this is going. I want to invite you to my house in Caracas. I want to invite you to stay here for a month, to live here as one of us Venezuelans, I invite you to go to the supermarket and try to keep up with a minimal salary and have food in your refrigerator, I want to invite you for a drink at night in a city where 80 to 120 people die each week in the hands of street violence, robberies and kidnappings. I want to invite you to talk about the things which worry us about this goverment in one of the 132 radio stations closed by Chavez because their line-up was not in the standards of the “revolution”. I want you to go and march with us when our goverment

[RadioRaheem84]

I was just going to post that drivel on here. Beat me to it, scarletghoul!

Where do these people get this stuff? Just what the hell is going on in Venezuela that people are starving and running out of food in the supermarkets? What is this Venezuela they're talking about? Also, do they never once consider that the business community is obviously at war with his policies and will do what it takes to make his administration look like socialist policies don't work by scaling back investment and halting production?

[scarletghoul]

The Even Stevens kid?
Yeah that shocked me too. Would be great if they got together though.

[h0m0revolutionary]

Culture clash! too much for my brain to compute. Hugo Chavez meets Courtney love?! it's like the beginning of a shit joke 0_o

[RadioRaheem84]

Culture clash! too much for my brain to compute. Hugo Chavez meets Courtney love?! it's like the beginning of a shit joke 0_o

Which is what the media will try to do, is make Chavez look like a joke by showing him next to Love and Shia Lebouf, as if the man cannot be taken seriously because an awful musician and a former Disney star all convened together in one room.

It is a culture clash though. A very weird one. Never would I have that Courtney Love would be meeting with a progressive leader of a Latin American country. How much more publicity does Chavez want?

[scarletghoul]

Well celebrities and entertainment have a hell of a lot of influence on the popular mood in Amerika (and the UK). Its not like france where people listen to intellectuals. So I don't think it will give the impression that Chávez is a joke; more likely that he is not evil.

[RadioRaheem84]

I hope so. I just dislike it when celebrities throw their inconsistent support behind a variety of statesmen. It's clear that they do not understand politics or economics very well yet they're so cocksure of themselves and their beliefs.

[ls]

Well celebrities and entertainment have a hell of a lot of influence on the popular mood in Amerika (and the UK). Its not like france where people listen to intellectuals. So I don't think it will give the impression that Chávez is a joke; more likely that he is not evil.

What? Since when did the French just listen to intellectuals? Also, when exactly did people not listen to intellectuals here?

[cyu]

Personally, the news about celebrities isn't very relevant to me - however, there are a lot of people in the "mainstream" that pretty much just listen to celebrity news. If this can be even a minor beachhead into the bubble they live in, then this celebrity-style propaganda has some use.



talk is all there is to Obama's "game." But leave it to a Hollywood liberal to buy into the bullshit that Obama is a "progressive" oppressed by the system he heads.



What Stone says in public may not be what Stone believes - the same with Chavez. If the point of your statement is to point out hypocrisy in American foreign policy, first your target audience has to believe there are ideals that their government is violating. If their government was always resigned to evil, then there is no hypocrisy, is there? Thus this too could be merely a propaganda device.

[RadioRaheem84]

Last detail to tie in:

Is the Venezuelan government cozy with the FARC and is the Chavez administration trafficking drugs?

[Jimmie Higgins]

Love works for the CIA and it's all a plot. She'll marry him and then he'll blow his brains out. The same thing the CIA did to Cobain.

[LeninistKing]

Hello, do you think that CIA was involved in the Kurt Cobain suicide? I mean was Kurt Cobain and Nirvana a threat to US capitalist-imperialist system?

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Love works for the CIA and it's all a plot. She'll marry him and then he'll blow his brains out. The same thing the CIA did to Cobain.

[RadioRaheem84]

It was a joke, dude. :lol:

[cmdrdeathguts]

That's what they want you to think.

[~Spectre]

I'd expect Hugo to be able to do a little better. Even Sarkozy managed a model.

Ladies love the anti-imperialists.

[Agnapostate]

Meh, I did kind of frown at his effective abandonment of his Indian wife and acquisition of "upgraded" white women once he started to increase in prominence in Venezuela, but to each their own.

[Dimentio]

What does this thread have to do with Politics?

[Le Libérer]

What does this thread have to do with Politics?
My thoughts exactly. Moved to chitchat.

[Angry Young Man]

Whatever happened to Naomi Campbell?

[Os Cangaceiros]

Hello, do you think that CIA was involved in the Kurt Cobain suicide? I mean was Kurt Cobain and Nirvana a threat to US capitalist-imperialist system?

.

Yep. The CIA was also responsible for the deaths 2Pac, Notorious BIG and Jam Master Jay because of the grave threat they posed to the capitalist order. That's why their murders remain unsolved.

[ZeroNowhere]

Hello, do you think that CIA was involved in the Kurt Cobain suicide? I mean was Kurt Cobain and Nirvana a threat to US capitalist-imperialist system?

.
No, the CIA has never done anything remotely beneficial.

[Rusty Shackleford]

No, the CIA has never done anything remotely beneficial.
fucking WIN!

[Os Cangaceiros]

No, the CIA has never done anything remotely beneficial.

Baa-Zing!