Might want to change the title. "rey" is a masculine word. (hint, el not la)

The kiwi is right. The implication is thAt the King is gay.

phnx, hate to turn this into a grammar lesson (heh, slightly off topic), but wrong again, simply bad grammar (at least according to latin americans, perhaps different in spain).

Sorry Kiwi, you are wrong. Use of the feminine article 'la' in front of a male noun, such as a title, is a sarcastic insult implying homosexuality. That applies in either Latin America or Spain.

I've looked it up - how should I put it? From what I can tell, I've got it right.

Never mind - got it

No wonder the libs like Chavez so much. They attack their opponents in the same manner, by denigration and name calling. Such sophisticated political discourse.

To offer the Polish translation: Niech zyje król! (Dot over the "z" in "zyje")

Back to topic:

Chavez, who forbids his own people and foreign visitors from criticizing him, who rules by decree, who censors his country's media, is much more of a fascist than Anzar could ever dream of being.

No wonder the libs like Chavez so much. They attack their opponents in the same manner, by denigration and name calling. Such sophisticated political discourse.

And in doing so, they project their own faults onto those they denigrate, as Chavez so aptly demonstrates.

Just wondering would you describe Franco as a conservative or a fascist?

It was about time someone had the guts to tell that dictator/fascist/pimp/ignorant donkey to "SHUT UP"

VIVA EL REY!!!

Chavez, see if you learn something.

I've been fascinated by the radical Left's devotion to Chavez. (Note that the sane, moderate, Democrats are not rushing to worship at his feet and kiss his rosy red---donkey. It's just the radical Left, the neomarxists, the BS contingent, who think he is so cool.)

All you have to do is watch him, see him in polite company, to see that he is a low-class thug. And he is openly doing what these same radicals have (falsely) accused Bush of trying to do.

I'm tickled to see his fellow countrymen finally getting press on their objections to him. According to the Agenda Media, he has been beloved and supported throughout Venzuela, when in fact he has been clearly seen as a throwback to the Bad Old Days of South American Marxism.

Good for EL Rey. (Don't worry, Mark---Spanish is tricky. Thinking that I understood the affiliation of "la" to the feminine and "el" to the masculine, and thinking that the word "dia" HAD to be feminine, ending in "a" and all, I threw the equivalent of a verbal stun grenade into the polite and sophisitcated gathering to which I had been invited when I used the term "la dia". Perhaps one of our linguists will understand the gaffe.)

Actually you are all wrong, to hint at any homosexuality by means of playing with words, not only you should change the article but also the noun so, you would have to say 'la reina', 'the queen' (it also makes sense in english ;). So 'la' preceeding the word king is just a case of bad grammar.
A pedantic spaniard