Rice Assails Chavez Over TV Station (AP)

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Rice Assails Chavez Over TV Station

By MATTHEW LEE
The Associated Press
Monday, June 4, 2007; 1:56 PM

PANAMA CITY, Panama -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
on Monday assailed Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez for the
closure of a key opposition television station that has prompted
mass protests, calling it the "sharpest and most acute" of his
moves against democracy.

"Everyone recognizes that when you start closing down television
stations because they express opposition to the leadership, that
that is, in fact, a strong move against democracy," she said.

"It is not the first in Venezuela, but it is perhaps the sharpest
and most acute," Rice told reporters aboard her plane en route
to a meeting of foreign ministers of the Organization of American
States in Panama.

She said she expected the meeting to produce a statement of
support for freedom of the press and expression in the Americas,
including Venezuela, and noted that some OAS members and
officials had already spoken out on the matter.

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/04/AR2007060400797.html

[gatorboy]

1. Coming from the party that's stopped at nothing to shut down PBS over the years...

That's funny!

Rice added, "They should look towards America's Fox News as an example of how to properly run a TV station."

[ananda]

2. fox news!

lol

[Monk06]

8. RCTV is Fox's spanish language affiliate. n/t

[BlackHawk706867]

3. I wonder who she thinks really gives a crap about what she has to say! eom ww

[rinsd]

4. Just shut up already. The stain of your involvement kills the issue.

Allow the international orgs and press to handle this.

You stamp the Bush name on it and you might as well give up.

[Ganja Ninja]

5. Why can't he just buy up all the media like the GOP?

That's how they eliminate the opposition. Become their boss and fire them.

[bpeale]

6. someone needs to tell her to get her ass to the middle east

and actually do some work for a change. worthless idiot.

[otohara]

7. Another Rich Remark

from the cabal gang.