Media Views

After a number of half-crazed attempts at journalistic jihad, Granier’s TV station is not going to get its government-issued license renewed this month. And of course the Washington Post’s three-quarters-crazed deputy editorial page editor is bravely standing by his side. According to Jackson Diehl, the license issue is an attempt by Hugo Chávez to muzzle dissenting media voices and “proof” that he’s a “dictator.”... Diehl, of course, is the same jackass who last week chided Democrats for being tough on Colombia’s Álvaro Uribe, just because his government happens to be linked to the little problem of mass graves that keep popping up all over the goddamned place. So you kind of get where he’s coming from: Inverse-Priorityville.

Mr. Uribe is being punished by Democrats...because he has remained an ally of George W. Bush even as his neighbor, Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, portrays the U.S. president as "the devil."