Monday, July 10, 2006

U2's Bono Backs Anti-Chavez Video Game

Newsmax reports:
Liberals are sounding a sour note over U2 rocker Bono’s backing of a video game that depicts Venezuela as a banana republic led by a power-hungry tyrant.

The "Venezuela” in the game is a fictitious country, but lefties are distressed that it demonizes Venezuela’s real leader Hugo Chavez, known for his Marxist domestic policies and virulent anti-Americanism.

A private equity firm established by Bono – the Irish star who has been touted for a Nobel Peace Prize for his campaign for Third World debt relief – invested $300 million in Pandemic Studios, maker of the video game "Mercenary 2: World in Flames,” according to the New York Post.

A player assumes the role of a mercenary sent to Venezuela, where a dictator has seized control of the nation’s oil.

The left has always like dictators that steal property.