When you are on air three, four hours at a stretch, there are going to be some flat spots. Perhaps “I've counted, three minutes and I don't stink” is not a line for the ages, but no worries: Re-light the cigar, recite some poetry, or maybe belt out a folk song. An IBD editorial, Showering With Hugo, looks at austerity vaudeville, Chavez-style:
Tyranny: In his latest absurdity, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is dictating three-minute showers and no singing. Claiming it's to save water, his act is nothing but a "green" fig leaf to cover his socialist mismanagement.
'Some people sing in the shower, in the shower half an hour," Chavez ranted on his Sunday TV show "Alo Presidente." "No, kids. Three minutes is more than enough. I've counted, three minutes and I don't stink." His words echo those of environmental extremists, blaming shopping malls, El Nino, tourists and sabotage. But the water and electricity shortages are his own doing, and the scope of the crisis signals the systemic shortages of socialism.
There shouldn't be any shortages at all. Green, jungly Venezuela, with some of the world's most spectacular waterfalls, also boasts some of the best hydroelectric capacity in all Latin America.
His subjects are glad he used Dial, but I bet they'd be real glad if he'd would get off their radio dial.
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