Spanish King Tells Chavez To STFU

It's highly ironic when a dictator who has declared himself president for life, has shutdown any broadcast, or printed news outlet that is critical of him, and calls out his thugs to shutdown any protests against him, calling anyone a facist, but that's just what Hugo Chavez did today at a Latin American summit.

From Breitbart:

The king of Spain told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to "shut up" Saturday during a heated exchange at a summit of leaders from Latin America, Spain and Portugal.
Chavez, who called President Bush the "devil" on the floor of the United Nations last year, triggered the exchange by repeatedly referring to former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar as a "fascist."

Aznar, a conservative who was an ally of Bush as prime minister, "is a fascist," Chavez said in a speech at the Ibero-American summit in Santiago, Chile. "Fascists are not human. A snake is more human."

Spain's current socialist prime minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, responded during his own allotted time by urging Chavez to be more diplomatic in his words and respect other leaders despite political differences.

"Former President Aznar was democratically elected by the Spanish people and was a legitimate representative of the Spanish people," he said, eliciting applause from the gathered heads of state.

Chavez repeatedly tried to interrupt, but his microphone was off.

Spanish King Juan Carlos, seated next to Zapatero, angrily turned to Chavez and said, "Why don't you shut up?"

The Venezuelan leader did not immediately respond, but later used time ceded to him by his close ally Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega to answer Zapatero's speech.

"I do not offend by telling the truth," he said. "The Venezuelan government reserves the right to respond to any aggression, anywhere, in any space and in any manner."

Remember Chavez is a despot that has been celebrated by the likes of Sean Penn, Cindy Sheehan,Danny Glover, and Kevin Spacey, to name a few. What is it with the love affair the left has with despot's, and dictators anyway? I guess it amounts to being able to shutdown any dissenting logical debate, against their supposed 'socially progressive' viewpoints. They are envious of thugs like Chavez because he has effectively gotten the other side to shut up, or else.

Chavez passed parliamentary legislation basically declaring himself president for life, the same thing the left tries to accuse Bush of doing, and has a band of thugs running rampant to control the populace, reminiscent of the Stasi. But yet the Hollywood elite, and the biggest dissenters on the left, keep going down to Venezuela to kiss his ring, and his a$$. What hypocrites!