From the Wall Street Journal
Yesterday Gail Collins's New York Times editorial board declared not only that Chávez was the legitimate winner but that it will brook no dissent on the question:It is time for President Hugo Chávez's opponents to stop pretending that they speak for most Venezuelans. They do not, as the failure of a recall referendum, promoted by the opposition, decisively demonstrated on Sunday. . . . The opposition . . . needs to stop shouting foul.
This editorial ran three days after the Venezuela vote. Meanwhile, after more than three years, the Times is still shouting foul over America's 2000 election. Today, 1,381 days after George W. Bush's victory, the Times begins its lead editorial this way:One of the scandals of the last presidential election was the large number of voters who were denied the right to vote because of foul-ups in the election system, like errors in the voting rolls or problems in directing voters to their correct polling places.
Again, how is the Left going to combine its hostility to computer voting with its support of the Chavez win? Will be interesting to see how Collins will treat a Bush victory this fall.
