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Team Bush strategy to demonize and intimidate reality-based critics... Huffington Post: Across the US political and media spectrum, there was wide agreement yesterday: Name-calling and personal attacks are bad for national and global dialogue. Prompting the unity were Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez' comments that President Bush was the devil incarnate, "El Diablo." Among those exercised (and exorcized) about Chavez' name-calling were some of the loudest name-callers in American media today ... including Rush Limbaugh and other rightwing talk hosts. Limbaugh tried to equate Chavez' remarks with the alleged Bush-bashing that comes from top US Democrats. In case you've forgotten, it...

Chavez Repeats 'Devil' Comment at Harlem Event Thursday, September 21, 2006 NEW YORK — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, appearing Thursday at a Harlem Church for an oil-for-poor event, repeated his 'devil' reference hurled a day earlier at President Bush during a speech at the United Nations General Assembly. Chavez, dressed in his signature red shirt, was introduced at the podium by activist actor Danny Glover. At one point Chavez told the crowd, "sometimes the devil takes human form," a comment that drew some boos — and applause — from the crowd who interpreted the reference to mean President Bush. Chavez...

Bush Is A Devil, Chavez Says, Echoing Some in US By Susan Jones CNSNews.com Senior Editor September 20, 2006 (CNSNews.com) - The United Nations building still stinks of sulphur, after the "devil" -- President George W. Bush -- addressed the General Assembly, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told the world on Wednesday. Chavez' speech to the General Assembly -- a personal attack on President Bush -- was greeted with sustained applause from the United Nations' member states. Chavez, after calling Bush a devil, said he thinks Bush needs a psychiatrist. The Bush-hatred spewing from Chavez sounded familiar, given the fact that...