The last few days we have seen the entire right go on about Obama shaking hands with Hugo Chavez and Chavez giving a book to our President. Even today wingnut talking points author Matt Drudge is still pushing the story:
And what has all this publicity done for the Venezuelan leader?
One of the biggest winners at the ongoing fifth Summit of the Americas turned out to be a decades-old book about Latin America’s colonial past.
The “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent” by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano rocketed to bestseller status Saturday night on the online bookstore Amazon.com after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez approached U.S. President Barack Obama and handed him a copy of the book Saturday morning.
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The publicity about the gift helped propel its English version from relative obscurity to No. 10 on the Amazon.com list of bestsellers on Saturday night.
Way to go Drudge – you have made Hugo Chavez relevant! The right wing agenda has now succeeded.