Atrios, in his own inimitable way, spotlights the MSM's reaction to Hugo Chavez. Quoting NYT:
After Chavez was elected in 1996 and re-elected in 2000, the New York Times cheers on a military coup which installed "a respected business leader" and hails it as a move signaling "democracy is no longer threatened."
In a later post, he comes up this quote from CNBC:
A major setback for Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. Venezuelans narrowly rejected his bid to run for re-election and to accelerate his socialist revolution.
Trivia question: Who's the last dictator you know of to lose an election?
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