From ABC news.com
Last night, Barbara Walters unveiled her 2007 10 Most Fascinating People list, complete with interviews with the "winners". This year, the simple mind of Barbara was "fascinated" by the likes of Justin Timberlake, the Beckhams, Bill Clinton, the creators of MySpace, Katherine Heigl, and Don Imus. Yes, I know that's only 8. Also in the list is my personal favorite Soon-to-Be Despot, Hugo Chavez. Babs was fascinated by the man who claims to drink 20 cups of coffee a day (Huh?)
Here's some other fascinating things Chavez has done:
1. Shutting down TV and radio stations that are critical of Chavez's policies
2. Nationalizing (aka stealing) industries to increase his own wealth
3. Being BFF with Castron and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
And the list goes on.
Why is this guy fascinating? He's insane. He exploits the fears and desires of poor people so that he can feed his power-hungry ego. He thinks socialism is a good idea (that's where the idiocy part come in). His version of diplomacy is to result to 2nd grade name calling contests. What is that?
My favorite part of the interview is how Walters doesn't mention the rampant election fraud that put Chavez in office. Millions (that's 6 zeroes) of dead people voted in his last election. But that doesn't matter - let's help legitimize this nut job by putting him on American television.
P.S. - I didn't bother finding out of the most fascinating person was. My brain hurts from trying to figure this one out.
