A weblog by Knot O'Reilly

An unidentified FOX reporter got a quick walk-by interview with Hugo Chavez, and questioned him on his friendship with Ahmedenijad, bringing up the Iranian presidents holocaust denial and the recent post-election killings in Iran.

Chavez quickly turns the tables, asking ‘have you seen the images from Iraq, have you seen that?’

Understandably, holocaust denial and the killing of people protesting a fraudulent election are serious crimes and not worthy of support, but all countries maintain diplomatic relations with nations that commit great acts of violence and human rights abuses, countries that lie to their populations for propaganda reasons. FOX news is well aware of this fact, and Chavez knows that they have not reported the estimated 1,339,771 people killed by the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Drawing a parallel between calling the U.S. a friend and Iran a friend is logical when you take the facts that FOX ignores into account.

Glenn Beck talked about this interview on his radio show recently and has a clip on his website that has Chavez saying:

“you supported Bush, and you are criticizing Obama because he is black. That’s why your mind is filled with poison”

Glenn misquotes him as saying:

“You’re poisoning people, you’re killing people in Iraq and you only are against the president because he’s black.”

Chavez did not say ‘only are against’, he claimed it was one of the reasons for criticizing him. I assume Chavez understands that ACORN is ‘FOXspeak’ for black.

The 20 second long clip that Beck has embedded on his website which was  posted to YouTube by FOX News has the sound cut-off 15 seconds into it.
The quotation that FOX and Beck cut off is

You (FOX News) said nothing about the killings in Iraq by your president and in Afghanistan, your killing people in Latin America and your genocide of the Native Americans, the genocide here in the United States, you hide the truth. I am a friend of my friend, that is all.

Chavez had earlier drawn a similar parallel on Larry King Live when he said:

I do not deny the Jewish Holocaust. And I condemn it. But in South America, when the Europeans arrived, there were close to 90 million Indians; 200 years later, we only had four million remaining. That was a holocaust. And the Europeans denied this holocaust.

To which Glenn Beck’s partner-in-crime Rush Limbaugh had this to say:

And what is the — holocaust? Ninety million Indians? Only 4 million left? They all have casinos. What’s to complain about?

This is the twenty second clip with five seconds censored by FOX and Glenn Beck:

Fox News Boycott posted a link to this YouTube clip that FOX posted uncensored: