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He's also a Fellow of the George W. Bush Presidential Center: http://www.bushcenter.org/people/joel-hirst.html http://www.bushcenter.org/people/joel-hirst.html
by sbierwagen 11y ago
He's also a Fellow of the George W. Bush Presidential Center: http://www.bushcenter.org/people/joel-hirst.html http://www.bushcenter.org/people/joel-hirst.html
He tweeted a link to this blog post, blaming Venezuela's collapse on "commies": https://twitter.com/joelhirst/status/723921894479675392 https://twitter.com/joelhirst/status/723921894479675392
He also wrote an op-ed for Fox News Latino blaming Chavez's death on Cuban doctors: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/opinion/2013/02/28/cuban-medicine-killed-hugo-chavez/ http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/opinion/2013/02/28/cuban-me...
- bpodgursky 11y agoIs the fact he has political opinions supposed to invalidate the decade of experience / work? Am I supposed to mindlessly parrot 'oh, he's related to the GWB center, baaaaaaaaaad'? I'm not sure what your point is. Well, I do see what you're trying to do, but it's not honest or relevant.
- jqm 11y agoPointing out a likely bias does bring objectivity into question.
- sbierwagen 11y agoHirst is a flack. He's paid to promote an idea. When Chevron pays Barbour, Griffith & Rogers $80,000 to tell everyone that global warming doesn't matter, (https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmsum.php?id=D000021679 https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmsum.php?id=D000021679) you don't cry about bias. If Hirst says communism is bad, it's because he's being paid to say so.
- fabiandesimone 11y agoWell, the Cuban doctors thing might have some grounds (is like a widespread rumor type of thing) . He decide to treat himself there instead of in Venezuela, so none really knows what went down in Cuba in his final days.