The enabling of a singer and a despot: Paula Abdul and Hugo Chavez
Enabler of the Month:
Publicist Jeff Ballard, telling FOXNews.com that the recent FOX television morning-show interview of “American Idol”judge Paula Abdul resulted from a “technical problem. They dropped the sound not once but twice. She’s in a little room by herself and could hear people shouting in her mike.”He denied that Abdul’s speech was impaired during the interview. More objective observers may beg to differ. Viewers watched Abdul almost swivel out of the shot and rock back and forth in her seat as she slurred her words. We would have to strain hard to find any adjective other than “drunk”to explain the truly bizarre scene. Mr. Ballard, please do your client a favor: get honest and stop enabling.
Oil money in the hands of government, which has enabled Venezuelan despot Hugo Chavez to remain in power despite, as The Wall Street Journal columnist Mary Anastasia O’Grady writes, “soaring murder rates, double-digit inflation, food shortages, oil-field depletion and a massive brain drain.â€