20 November 2007

Is it gibberish? Yes.

It is gibberish to accuse Chavez for his furtive attempts to undermine the “democracy” by extending the length of presidency when the opposition is genuinely against the economic reforms.
This comes from a lovely discussion here. Author - one Mehmet Çagatay, who keeps a blog under the same name. Looks like a nice guy, although with links to all the usual suspects. One of the links, BTW, is the same Left I on the News I had a pleasure to address here.

I was forced to resort to dictionary with this quote. Let us see:

Gibberish:

Unintelligible talking

Furtive:

Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed

Uhu. I see. No, in fact I don't. I still don't understand this statement.

Let us split that statement in two, if it's OK with you, Mehmet:

"It is gibberish to accuse Chavez for his furtive attempts to undermine the “democracy” by extending the length of presidency..."

First of all, your friend Hugo is anything but "furtive" in his clumsy efforts (it is much more than just "attempts" by now) to become a Caudillo for life. And indeed, his activity in this direction undermines democracy, with and without quotes.

Now to the second half of that amazing statement:

"...when the opposition is genuinely against the economic reforms."

There is probably some long word for creating a sentence that includes two totally unrelated statements, but we'll get there by using a simple example:

It is gibberish to see Mehmet as blind supporter of Hugo, when the Scarlet Macaws sing so enchantingly in the freezing Siberian forests.

Observe the parallels, Mehmet: first of all, there is no link whatsoever between the first and the second part of the above sentence. Then, the second half of the sentence is mostly untrue, exactly as in the second half of your sentence: you see, the opposition is indeed against the economic reforms, but it is only part of the reforms the opposition is against.

With me so far, Mehmet? Cool.

And I hope that the first part of the sentence (re Mehmet being a blind supporter) is untrue too. Against hope. Because writing gibberish to support the unsupportable is a bad, bad sign...

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