Opinion: Top 10: Hugo furens
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Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, Tom Tancredo and other luminaries tried last week, but it was Hugo Chavez who drew the lion’s share of Opinion’s modest traffic. Venezuela stories took two places in the top 10, including Number One. And two others — Michael Rowan and Douglas Schoen’s ‘Will Chavez pull the trigger?’ and the Bolivarian Republic’s own argument that ‘Venezuela knows what it’s doing’ — barely missed making the list. With the can’t-lose campaign slogan ‘Pax Americana, cyber-bullying and Earl Ofari Hutchinson too,’ we round out the list. And if you want to revive the old argument about the Times’ alleged bias against women writers, this he-man woman-haters collection of bylines should give you a start:
1. ‘Venezuela’s path to self-destruction’ by William Ratliff 2. ‘Bush isn’t the only decider’ by Bruce Ackerman 3. ‘How to punish a cyber-bully’ by Jonathan Turley 4. ‘My taco with Tancredo’ by Joel Stein 5. ‘Bad for Huckabee, good for America’ by Dan Gilgoff 6. ‘Unheralded military successes’ by Robert D. Kaplan 7. ‘The black-Latino blame game’ by Earl Ofari Hutchinson 8. ‘Ron Paul isn’t that scary’ by Jonah Goldberg 9. ‘Venezuela veers toward dictatorship’ by the editorial board 10. ‘At peace with Pax Americana’ by Jonah Goldberg