Hollywood's Love Affair with Commie Thug Dicatators Continues

First it was Michael Moore and Fidel Castro (which elicited this priceless response from possible Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson).

Now, one of Fidel's other Hollywood buddies, Danny Glover, has inked a film-making deal with Castro-loving commie bastard, Hugo Chavez:

(CNSNews.com) - Actor Danny Glover has agreed to make two movies financially backed by the Venezuelan government, but U.S. officials are calling the deal "tainted."

The Venezuelan National Assembly is giving the national production company, La Villa del Cine, $19.7 million to make the two films. The first, which Glover will direct, is about Francois Dominique Toussaint-Louverture, a Haitian independence leader. The second is a film adaptation of the Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel, "The General in His Labyrinth," about Simon Bolivar.

According to Venezuela's state-run television station, TeleSur, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez started La Villa del Cine in 2006 to combat "the dictatorship of Hollywood" and spread the story of Latin America.

Both movies will be filmed in Venezuela.

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"I think that [Glover is] just a pawn in Hugo Chavez's propaganda machine," Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) told Cybercast News Service. "It's sad. What I don't get is why a well-known American, let alone any American, would be part of a propaganda machine with Hugo Chavez, and that's clearly what he's doing.

"They'll live in this country and enjoy the freedoms that we all enjoy," Mack said. "We have men and women around the world fighting for and defending our freedom, yet they'll go and support a communist dictator in Venezuela."

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Mack noted that Glover has "long been a supporter of Chavez's radical left-wing policies. He is also a member of the board of the television network TeleSur, a Chavez-funded network that has teamed up with Al-Jazeera to spread anti-democratic messages across Latin America."

The congressman lashed out at Glover for turning "to an avowed enemy of the United States - and someone who in his own right has snuffed out dissent and free speech - for movie financing smacks of radicalism and opportunism run amuck," Mack said. "That's [$19.7 million] he could spend on helping the people of his country get out of poverty."

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My Comments:
Based on his recent attacks on the Pope for saying European colonization benefited the Americas because of the spread of Christianity, I'm guessing Hugo wants Danny to offer a different take on history than that given by Danny's "Lethal Weapon" co-star Mel Gibson in "Apocalypto".


Previous Pro Ecclesia posts on this subject:
Venezuelan Cardinal Tells Castro-Loving Commie Bastard: "Your Way Has Been Tried and Found Wanting"

Castro-Loving Commie Bastard to "Build Heaven Here on Earth"

Going Off On Citgo

Castro-Loving Commie Bastard Pounds Shoe on Podium at U.N.

Venezuela's [Castro-Loving Commie Bastard] Chávez Urges Pope to be More Careful With His Words

Venezuela, Syria Join Forces Against "American Imperialism"

Castro-Loving Commie Bastard Hugo Chávez Says Israel's Action in Lebanon "Worse" Than Hitler

Israel's Critics Hail Castro-Loving Commie Bastard Hugo Chávez

Pro-US Candidate Wins Landslide in Colombia

Saint Hugo - the Religious Left Begins its Embrace of [Castro-Loving Commie Bastard] Hugo Chávez

Pope Tells Castro-Loving Commie Bastard to Get With the Program

Robertson's Remarks On Chavez Shock Baptists