Does Barbara Walters Still Love Hugo Chavez?

Sometime around the Ides of March I watched Barbara Walters' interview with Hugo Chavez. I didn’t watch the whole interview, but saw just enough to be repulsed by Barbara’s fawning over this wannabe-dictator.

At the time, I jotted down some of the things that Barbara said about Chavez. (These quotes probably aren’t verbatim, but they’re pretty close.)

“He’s often on television. He has a connection with his audience. He sometimes sings to them.”

Barbara described Chavez as “warm” and “dignified” and mentioned how “he evoked Martin Luther King by saying, ‘his dream is my dream’”.

Now that Chavez is shutting down opposition television stations and is consolidating his power as dictator of Venezuela, I wonder if Barbara has changed her mind?

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