News Media Canonize Socialist Presidential Candidate
Jim Kouri, CPP
December 15, 2005
Why just lavish such enormously positive news coverage on only two male communists like Cuba's Castro or Venezuala's Chavez, when you can also help prop up a female communist? That's what's happening today in Latin American politics. The US news media are in a communist's corner during the presidential election cycle in Chile.
Socialist Party candidate Michelle Bachelet leads in Chile's presidential race by over a million votes counted on Sunday; but she failed to win the votes necessary to be declared the winner so she must submit to a runoff vote in January 2006.
Bachelet's claim to fame is being a former political prisoner during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. Later, She served as Chile's minister of defense under a democratic government. She leads two conservatives with 46 percent. Sebastian Pinera, one of Chile's wealthiest men, took about 25 percent, and Joaquin Lavin, a former mayor of Santiago, had about 23 percent.
Chile's election laws stipulate that if no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote, a runoff election between the top contenders will be held on January 15.
The campaign "shows how much Chile has changed," said Jorge Schaulsohn, one of Bachelet's campaign managers. "Michelle Bachelet is so atypical. She is a woman, single, separated. In the United States, a candidate like her wouldn't fly."
He's right. An openly neo-Marxist woman would fair poorly in America, especially, when she utters statements such as, "I'm agnostic. . . . I believe in the state," Bachelet told several groups of evangelical ministers. ''I believe the state has an important role in guaranteeing the diversity of men and women in Chile -- their different spiritualities, philosophies, and ways of life." It's enough to make any American liberal or mainstream news reporter tingle with passion for this secularist Marxist. She's Theresa Heinz-Kerry without the sass or mindless babble. Better still, she's Chile's Hillary Clinton, except for the fact that Bachelet tells the voters what she believes and Hillary doesn't.
What the news media, such as Bachelet cheerleaders the New York Times and Washington Post, also fail to tell Americans is that when Bachelet was self-exiled from Chile, she settled in communist East Germany where she learned German at the Helder Institute and studied Marxist political and economic theory while she studied medicine.
When Bachelet returned to Chile and completed her medical studies, the Clinton Administration, always simpathetic to neo-Marxists, helped her to come to the US in order to attend the Inter-American Defense College in Washington, DC under a presidential scholarship. How many conservatives from Latin American nations were given such a scholarship by Clinton? Zero.
In 1995, Bachelet became a member of the Central Committee for the Chilean Socialist Party, a far-left political organization. Later she was involved in creating what's known in Chile as The Coalition. The coaliation is made up of the Socialist Party, the Radical Social Democrat Party and the Humanist Party, plus other assorted left-wing political groups and social organizations.
But it's her personal life that really turns on the US media. They get almost giddy as Bachelet proudly acknowledges she's separated from her husband and bore two children while unmarried. This is a NOW woman. Her slogan is ''I'm With You," and the promotional materials that outline her platform include a variety of photographed faces -- every one of them a woman's or a child's. Men need not apply for Bachelet's utopia.
Make a search of the mainstream news media and see if you read or hear anything about Ms. Bachelet's supporters such as Hortensia Lopez, a long-time supporter of the Communist Party. Lopez believes Bachelet is exactly what Chile needs: a woman who believes the state has the solutions to every problem imaginable. The media coverage of Michelle Bachelet is merely a prelude to the media's coverage of Hillary Clinton as 2008 approaches.
Socialist Party candidate Michelle Bachelet leads in Chile's presidential race by over a million votes counted on Sunday; but she failed to win the votes necessary to be declared the winner so she must submit to a runoff vote in January 2006.
Bachelet's claim to fame is being a former political prisoner during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. Later, She served as Chile's minister of defense under a democratic government. She leads two conservatives with 46 percent. Sebastian Pinera, one of Chile's wealthiest men, took about 25 percent, and Joaquin Lavin, a former mayor of Santiago, had about 23 percent.
Chile's election laws stipulate that if no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote, a runoff election between the top contenders will be held on January 15.
The campaign "shows how much Chile has changed," said Jorge Schaulsohn, one of Bachelet's campaign managers. "Michelle Bachelet is so atypical. She is a woman, single, separated. In the United States, a candidate like her wouldn't fly."
He's right. An openly neo-Marxist woman would fair poorly in America, especially, when she utters statements such as, "I'm agnostic. . . . I believe in the state," Bachelet told several groups of evangelical ministers. ''I believe the state has an important role in guaranteeing the diversity of men and women in Chile -- their different spiritualities, philosophies, and ways of life." It's enough to make any American liberal or mainstream news reporter tingle with passion for this secularist Marxist. She's Theresa Heinz-Kerry without the sass or mindless babble. Better still, she's Chile's Hillary Clinton, except for the fact that Bachelet tells the voters what she believes and Hillary doesn't.
What the news media, such as Bachelet cheerleaders the New York Times and Washington Post, also fail to tell Americans is that when Bachelet was self-exiled from Chile, she settled in communist East Germany where she learned German at the Helder Institute and studied Marxist political and economic theory while she studied medicine.
When Bachelet returned to Chile and completed her medical studies, the Clinton Administration, always simpathetic to neo-Marxists, helped her to come to the US in order to attend the Inter-American Defense College in Washington, DC under a presidential scholarship. How many conservatives from Latin American nations were given such a scholarship by Clinton? Zero.
In 1995, Bachelet became a member of the Central Committee for the Chilean Socialist Party, a far-left political organization. Later she was involved in creating what's known in Chile as The Coalition. The coaliation is made up of the Socialist Party, the Radical Social Democrat Party and the Humanist Party, plus other assorted left-wing political groups and social organizations.
But it's her personal life that really turns on the US media. They get almost giddy as Bachelet proudly acknowledges she's separated from her husband and bore two children while unmarried. This is a NOW woman. Her slogan is ''I'm With You," and the promotional materials that outline her platform include a variety of photographed faces -- every one of them a woman's or a child's. Men need not apply for Bachelet's utopia.
Make a search of the mainstream news media and see if you read or hear anything about Ms. Bachelet's supporters such as Hortensia Lopez, a long-time supporter of the Communist Party. Lopez believes Bachelet is exactly what Chile needs: a woman who believes the state has the solutions to every problem imaginable. The media coverage of Michelle Bachelet is merely a prelude to the media's coverage of Hillary Clinton as 2008 approaches.
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