Mocking Politicians......

The above chappie is Hugo Chavez who - for the benefit of the unitiated - is the President of Venezuela. Mahal prompts the rabbit that it the nazis were not the only members of the political class to have a huge sense of humour failure in the face of mockery (see Jackie the dog below). A Colombia soap opera called Chepe Fortuna does the rounds in Latin America and stars a character called Colombia and her sister Venezuela, who owns a dog called - erm - Little Hugo.

It is shown on the Televen channel in Venezuela. Could it be that Chavez - and Venezuala generally - is being mocked? The Venezuelan regulator Conatel thinks so complaining that the character named Venezuela was 'repeatedly characterised as associated with crime, interference and vulgarity'. One can but tut at such stereotyping.

Her gossipy and unscrupulous manner, continued Conatel, showed 'the shameless manipulation of the plot to demoralise the Venezuelan people'.

Um righty...

Conatel ordered the Televen channel to take the programme off air on Thursday night. So far no response from Televen. The rabbit will keep an eye on the situation - as he will on the situation of the Venezuelan Judge presently banged up for some reason the rabbit doesn't quite follow.

Funny lot politicians... Evidently British Prime Minister David Cameron is very sensitive about his admittedly odd shaped bald patch and even hired an official photographer at £35,000 a year to not photograph it. A very sensible use of public funds, I'm sure all will agree. Here rabbit mockery services presents to an unsuspecting world the funny shaped bald patch in all its horror. The result of such hypersensitivity is of course that various of the media have become somewhat obsessed with the bald patch and spend half their working hours trying to spot it...

Way back in the 60s, there was a New Zealand politician - and later prime minister - called Robert Muldoon who was greatly offended by the Peter Cook/Dudley Moore song 'The ballad of Spotty Muldoon' During his time as Finance Minister, New Zealand National Radio banned 'The ballad of Spotty Muldoon'. Very reasonable too. I'm sure all will agree but as 'Spotty' is dead now, who cares? Let it rip...