Earlier this week the comic strip 'Prickly City' (which the AJC runs on the regular cartoon pages rather than with the other 'political' strips [The Boondocks', 'Doonesbury'] which it places on another page) did a short series on Harry Belafonte's speech in Venezuela. What I found interesting was that one strip called Hugo Chávez the 'Venezuelan dictator'. Apparently, in the funhouse mirror that is contemporary 'conservatism', arriving in office via open election makes you a dictator if you don't toe the line drawn by W. Or, put another way, it is acceptable to lie in promoting the policies of the dear leader.
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