STILL ABLE TO SHOCK

STILL ABLE TO SHOCK: "I tuned in very briefly this morning to Today and was taken aback by the gushing admiration that one of the BBC's legion of eco-warrior reporters bestowed upon the speech at the Climatecon in Copenhagen by Hugo Chavez. It verged on hero-worship and shocked me because anyone who knows anything about this Venezuelan tyrant will know that he is an evil man, a thug, a clown. And yet, to at least one of our State Broadcaster reporters, he is man worth listening to. The BBC - still able to shock me.

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