Who is ready for more Liberal Maladies?

Liberals seem prone to suffer from several Liberal Maladies that I, Doctor Gator, have diagnosed over the years. One of these is Consistent Inconsistentitis. This dreaded malady causes Liberals to lose all principles and the ability to avoid becoming gigantic hypocrites. I fear we are about to see yet another outbreak of this my friends.

ReliaPundit reports on one of the Lefts’ darlings, Hugo Chavez, and his latest attempt to crush all dissent.

NYTimes/AP: Anti-Chavez Channel Removed From Cable

Venezuelan cable television providers stopped transmitting a channel critical of President Hugo Chavez on Sunday, after the government cited noncompliance with new regulations requiring the socialist leader’s speeches be televised on cable.

Radio Caracas Television, an anti-Chavez channel known as RCTV that switched to cable and satellite television in 2007 after the government refused to renew its over-the-air license, disappeared from TV sets shortly after midnight.

RCTV was yanked from cable and satellite programming just hours after Diosdado Cabello, director of Venezuela’s state-run telecommunications agency, said several local channels carried by cable television have breached broadcasting laws and should be removed from the airwaves.

Cabello warned cable operations on Saturday evening that they could find themselves in jeopardy if they keep showing those channels.

”They must comply with the law, and they cannot have a single channel that violates Venezuelan laws as part of their programming,” he said.

Now, you may be wondering how this ties in with the ideological inconsistencies of Liberals. Well, we heard over and again that “dissent was patriotism” and that Bush was “crushing dissent” from the Left during the past eight years. OK, we all know that Bush never crushed dissent, nor banned radio or TV stations, or demanded to control what they broadcast. Yet, the Left accused him of it constantly. And, they often held up Chavez as a man who loved “social justice”, you know “power to the people” and all of that.

So, now that we have another example of Chavez crushing dissent, will the Left be outraged? Will they turn on Hugo Chavez? Will they denounce him, and demand “social justice” for the people of Venezuela who dissent against Chavez? Don’t hold your breath for that to happen my friends. The Left will be too stricken with Consistent Inconsistentitis to protest.