Check out Chavez, in full BDS mode courtesy of Allapundit.
We know that the UN is a corrupt, worthless, anti-American institution, so maybe this shouldn’t be so surprizing. But how is it we allow this kind of talk by a foreign tyrant right on our own soil? This will look really bad after we’re attacked by an Iran-Venezuela axis.
Oh, and Chavez is a Chomsky fan. That tells you about all you need to know about Noam, I guess.
Update:
Mario Loyola sounds right to me.
The White House responded only to say that the comments were not worth responding to. I do not agree. A latter-day Mussolini just referred to the President of the United States as “the devil” — to general applause, laughter, and merriment in the General Assembly of the United Nations — an organization we created to make the defeat of fascism permanent in our world. By insisting on the universality of the Organization, and not insisting on any standards for membership, President Harry Truman bequeathed a pulpit of “unique legitimacy” to our worst enemies, to mock us and incite the world against us, from right in the middle of our greatest city.
Come on, Mr. President. Put this clown in his place. Stand up.
Yet Another Update:
Hat tip to Power Line for this link to The Anchoress, with a pretty good apologetic for Bush’s silence.
But maybe some on the left finally understand that while they’ve been having fun and laughing while calling President Bush every manner of ugly name and insult, dangerous people have been watching. And they have made a calculation: We can disrespect Bush and America will laugh with us. Bush is weak. America is once again the appeasing “weak horse” it was throughout the 1990’s and even before…when we could attack anything and be accountable to no one.
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And now, these tyrants and madmen sound eerily like the Democrats and the press and the left. One ideology, the world over, had completely lost its bearings, its self-control and its manners concerning one man who has never – not once -repaid them back in kind. Not in speeches. Not to the press. Not to “friendly audiences.” He came to town talking about “changing the tone,” and that’s what happened, in a perverse way. One side’s tone went rabid, the other side went nearly-silent, but this one man…kept his tone.
