bowl of varian or the castro east is specifically chavez largely chavez. is that just you know hype coming out of the corporate media yes i would say so it comes mostly from the state department in the the media picks it up basically says the bush administration the state department has had a strategy i mean they oppose all of these left governments they don't like brazil either so it's a brazilian government either but they can't really say that i mean you see that in the washington times you know in the right the far right will say it but the state department has decided to focus on charges and try to isolate him. and then so the media picks up on this in then they say you know bolivia and ecuador and sometimes they even include argentina it's the washington post but good left bad left kind of thing but that's not the way these governments see it at all i mean you have lewis said before this election he won just a few weeks ago even as well he said a victory for venice for java's in this election is a victory for all of that in america and that is how di

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organizations or political campaigns, leveraging their mrc experience to help advance conservativism in a variand of the great work mrc interns have done over the years and continue to do on behalf of the conservative cause. mrc interns make a real impact across every mrc department. they are truly part of the mrc family. [laughter] [applause] >> there's another video paid a number of years ago about the clinton white house's internship program -- [laughter] you can find it on the internet. [laughter] but we're not going to play it here. [laughter] and that tape is a good introduction to our next segment, the funnies. now, i know that, you know, it's chris matthews, it's bob franken, it's all -- they can't help but be funny. they're not intentionally funny, of course. if chris matthews were not employed by msnbc, i suspect he'd be one of those people muttering at a bus stop about racism and eyeing little girls with bad intent. [laughter] and our presenter for this segment is, i believe, an established star in the conservative movement, and his star continues to rise. and it's a pleasure to have