Larry King remembers Chavez to be ‘extraordinarily easy to like’

Mar. 6, 2013 2:40pm Eddie Scarry

Former CNN anchor Larry King writes in the Huffington Post on his 2009 interview with the now dead Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez:

I was surprised when I met Chavez. He was engaging. When he walked into the room, he was laughing and singing. He spoke English and we talked baseball for a few minutes. For someone who didn’t like the American leadership or our country, he certainly followed American baseball and knew everything about it. For about five or ten minutes we chatted, while the crew finished setting up for the interview. …

I found him conflicting. In a strange way, he was extraordinarily easy to like, but of course many people — both good and bad — who rise to prominence can be that way. Chavez was larger than life. He was very engaging.

Had he been an American politician, Democrat or Republican, he probably would have been very successful.

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IAMMADDOG
Posted on March 7, 2013 at 8:21am
Yeah thats right BP just up and PURPOSELY dumped their oil in the Gulf of Mexico hoping people would die. Give a rest Super Chavez was an a-hole dictator pure and simple.

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Patriot Z
Posted on March 6, 2013 at 6:50pm
I wouldnt doubt it. many dictators were ‘fun guys’ when they liked you. its when you stood in their way or they didnt like you. thats when the dictators true nature came out. his people are pets. his people were pets and treated as such. controlled and dictated to. and punished sevearly when they are bad. but never considered equal to chavez by him or themselves. thats the diffeence. socialists feel govt and the president as the highest office person in the land. Real americans KNOW that the president and govt work for us and is the lowest ranking people. im not equal to the pres, im better

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- Superabound
  Posted on March 7, 2013 at 1:36am
  Hugo Chavez donated almost half a billion dollars worth of FREE heating oil to poor Americans after Hurricane Katrina. While British Petroleum dumped over twice as much oil as that directly into the ocean, killing at least 11 Americans. So tell me, which one is the REAL foreign enemy who hates the American people?
  
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