# Hello? No Chavez pit? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 22, 2006, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-no-chavez-pit/373658 "2006-09-22T02:40:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-no-chavez-pit/373658/1 "2006-09-22T02:40:51Z")
Maybe I missed it, but if some punk comes in your house and calls your daddy the devil, it’s ok with you Dopers? Couple days after his [vomitting](http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/15571287.htm) all over your country, nothing in The BBQ Pit? Ok, he’s not your daddy, he’s your president, love him or hate him, he’s still your president. I loathed that pantywaiste [JImmy Carter](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter), but if that cur [Ruhollah Khomeini](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini) had flown in and denounced that peckerwood as the Great Satan, with UN applause, I would have been pissed. Hell, even [Pelosi and Rangel](http://www.bloggernews.net/2006/09/democrats-defend-bush_21.html) spoke up against Chavez, and indirectly the fool American citizens in [Harlem](http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=d7785063-3c00-454f-a59d-d3f2a23d7668&k=38778) that fucking applauded him. Anyway, I pit that shit Chavez. And I am I sad that Dopers are so self-loathing that they take his shiite in stride. And I pit that tyrant Castro, and that fool Ahmadinejad. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-no-chavez-pit/373658/2 "2006-09-22T02:48:50Z")
Kicking puppies isn’t any fun. It’s like being insulted by your 5-year-old brother when you’re in high school. You ignore it and go about your business. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-no-chavez-pit/373658/3 "2006-09-22T02:53:52Z")
Why bother pitting such an egregious asshole? Half the fun of a Pit thread is watching or engaging in the knock-down drag-out fights that usually erupt, and who’s going to pick up the cudgels for Chavez’s boorish maunderings? ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-no-chavez-pit/373658/4 "2006-09-22T02:57:25Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] Why bother pitting such an egregious asshole? Half the fun of a Pit thread is watching or engaging in the knock-down drag-out fights that usually erupt, and who’s going to pick up the cudgels for Chavez’s boorish maunderings? [/QUOTE] What is he offers cheap heating oil though brah? ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-no-chavez-pit/373658/5 "2006-09-22T03:03:07Z")
> [@](#): > > Hello? No Chavez Pit? Erm…because it was real hoot of a Pit rant, and as such was hilarious? [Transcript.](http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/9/20/123752.shtml) > [@](#): > > The devil is right at home. The devil, the devil himself, is right in the house. > > “And the devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the devil came here. Right here.” [crosses himself] “And it smells of sulfur still today.” > > Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world. > > I think we could call a psychiatrist to analyze yesterday’s statement made by the president of the United States. As the spokesman of imperialism, he came to share his nostrums, to try to preserve the current pattern of domination, exploitation and pillage of the peoples of the world. > > An Alfred Hitchcock movie could use it as a scenario. I would even propose a title: “The Devil’s Recipe.” > > \< snip \> > > It smells of sulfur here, but God is with us and I embrace you all. Dunno about you, but I loved it. It’s got a good beat and you can dance to it; I gave it a **6.5**. I was forced to deduct 0.5 from his score for waving Noam Chomsky’s book from the pulpit (oops, from the rostrum) instead of a Bible, but hey. Or maybe just because we all recognized it for what it was–political grandstanding by a Third World player-wannabe who was intent on making the most of his 2 minutes on camera, and who can now go home and tell his electorate, “See! I stuck it to those Yankees good!” It is to yawn, not to take umbrage. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-no-chavez-pit/373658/6 "2006-09-22T03:03:51Z")
[QUOTE=Operation Ripper] What is he offers cheap heating oil though brah? [/QUOTE] Why should that affect what anyone thinks of his comments that you’re pitting? The cheap oil is in part a ploy for good public relations, sure – so we take the oil to aid the people that need it, say “Thanks for helping out,” and continue to think he’s an asshole. :dubious: “brah”? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-no-chavez-pit/373658/7 "2006-09-22T03:04:44Z")
Well, I thought he was talking about Reggie Bush and the NCAA investigation of USC. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-no-chavez-pit/373658/8 "2006-09-22T03:04:57Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] Why bother pitting such an egregious asshole? Half the fun of a Pit thread is watching or engaging in the knock-down drag-out fights that usually erupt, and who’s going to pick up the cudgels for Chavez’s boorish maunderings? [/QUOTE] So not true! Ann “Manhands” Coulter, Jack (Ain’t Got) Chick, Tony Snowjob. . . the list of egregious assholes who get defended in the Pit is long and. . .long. I’ll toss Chavez a bone. The “smell of sulfur” crack was dang funny. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-no-chavez-pit/373658/9 "2006-09-22T03:07:35Z")
Aw hell, somebody beat me to the almost defending part. Darn you to heck, DDG! ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-no-chavez-pit/373658/10 "2006-09-22T03:10:34Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] So not true! Ann “Manhands” Coulter, Jack (Ain’t Got) Chick, Tony Snowjob. . . the list of egregious assholes who get defended in the Pit is long and. . .long. [/QUOTE] Chick’s been defended in the Pit? I ask for a linky, not because I don’t believe you, but because that sounds damn entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-no-chavez-pit/373658/11 "2006-09-22T03:15:49Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] Chick’s been defended in the Pit? I ask for a linky, not because I don’t believe you, but because that sounds damn entertaining. [/QUOTE] Well, no. But the threads are long and entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-no-chavez-pit/373658/12 "2006-09-22T03:16:11Z")
[QUOTE=Duck Duck Goose] Or maybe just because we all recognized it for what it was–political grandstanding by a Third World player-wannabe who was intent on making the most of his 2 minutes on camera, and who can now go home and tell his electorate, “See! I stuck it to those Yankees good!” It is to yawn, not to take umbrage. [/QUOTE] Who is “we?” The UN members applauded him, US citizens applauded him, as I cited above, heck even [Sen. Tom Harkin](http://www.radioiowa.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=020BFC5A-FA7D-42CC-9BA6A4ED9DA063B8) defended him. Trite as it is, [Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the [country]](http://www.radioiowa.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=020BFC5A-FA7D-42CC-9BA6A4ED9DA063B8). Otherwise, we got [Yugoslavia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslavia) or whatever else socialist paradise you want to throw in there. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-no-chavez-pit/373658/13 "2006-09-22T03:23:45Z")
A favorite spectre of Evil Liberalhood, Sen. Nancy Pelosi, called him a thug. As a non-card-carrying liberal, I just sneered at the idiot/thug/whatever and shrugged. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-no-chavez-pit/373658/14 "2006-09-22T03:26:54Z")
I have to admit, [this](http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/21/chavez.ny/index.html) gave me a warm fuzzy feeling. I so often think that absolutely nothing is over the line on the Boards that it’s nice to see that something still is, in reality. ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-no-chavez-pit/373658/15 "2006-09-22T03:33:57Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] in reality. [/QUOTE] Meh, only for today, given democrats’ track records they will be parroting Chavez next week. He is a product of our partisan politics, frankly. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-no-chavez-pit/373658/16 "2006-09-22T03:41:53Z")
[QUOTE=Ferret Herder] A favorite spectre of Evil Liberalhood, Sen. Nancy Pelosi, called him a thug. [/QUOTE] It’s the first time I’ve heard Pelosi be right about anything. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-no-chavez-pit/373658/17 "2006-09-22T03:46:07Z")
[QUOTE=Operation Ripper] Who is “we?” The UN members applauded him, US citizens applauded him, as I cited above, heck even [Sen. Tom Harkin](http://www.radioiowa.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=020BFC5A-FA7D-42CC-9BA6A4ED9DA063B8) defended him. Trite as it is, [Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the [country]](http://www.radioiowa.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=020BFC5A-FA7D-42CC-9BA6A4ED9DA063B8). Otherwise, we got [Yugoslavia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslavia) or whatever else socialist paradise you want to throw in there. [/QUOTE] Jesus Christ, you’re a fucking retard. You honestly think we’re going to become Yugoslavia because some people applauded this guy (even though, as pointed out, many more - here on this lefty board and real-life liberal politicians - called him an idiot)? Get a grip. And if you really believe that “come to the aid of your country” line, I’m sure they could use you over in Iraq. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-no-chavez-pit/373658/18 "2006-09-22T03:46:29Z")
[QUOTE=Operation Ripper] He is a product of our partisan politics, frankly. [/QUOTE] Not if you believe [Ari](http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/04/20020412-1.html): > [@](#): > > “Let me share with you the administration’s thoughts about what’s taking place in Venezuela. It remains a somewhat fluid situation. But yesterday’s events in Venezuela resulted in a change in the government and the assumption of a transitional authority until new elections can be held. The details still are unclear. We know that the action encouraged by the Chávez government provoked this crisis. The results of these events are now that President Chávez has resigned the presidency. According to the best information available, the Chávez government suppressed peaceful demonstrations … The results of these events are now that President Chávez has resigned the presidency. Before resigning, he dismissed the vice president and the cabinet, and a transitional civilian government has been installed. .. That is what took place…” Are you claiming that instead, Bush used the CIA for partisan gain? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-no-chavez-pit/373658/19 "2006-09-22T03:53:46Z")
[QUOTE=Squink] Not if you believe [Ari](http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/04/20020412-1.html): Are you claiming that instead, Bush used the CIA for partisan gain? :eek: [/QUOTE] No, I’m claiming that you are a barbarian idiot thirsting for the dark ages. And that you are a douchebag. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-no-chavez-pit/373658/20 "2006-09-22T04:03:09Z")
Sorry, **Operation Ripper** , I didn’t bother to check the schedule and just now found out I was assigned to launch the anti-Chavez Pit thread. My bad. For the resto of you, why don’t you people ever remind me of these things on time? I mean, the OP obviously got the message that he was playing the village idiot this week. Jeez Louise. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-no-chavez-pit/373658.md?page=2)