Earlier this morning I caught the end of Hugo Chavez's address before the UN General Assembly and heard him in essence call Bush 'the Devil', quipping that he can still smell the sulfur from Bush's visit to the podium yesterday, before making the Sign of the Cross and a 'praying' gesture. He also held up one of Chomsky's books and urged everyone to read it (sorry, I didn't catch the title).
CNN's flunkeys immediately did their scorn/outrage/link-to-Iran/link-to-terrorism-and-drugs routine, and their anchor gal had me doing my own little scorn routine when she announced that because of a 1 billion dollar arms deal Venezuela has made with Russia, how scary the Latin American country's dangerous aggression is becoming.
Anyway, Chavez reminded me of two rants I wrote in September and October of 2004 on dailykos.
This one:
This Administration and the current RNC are the most outrageous bunch of lying, hating, fear-mongering, murdering, cover-upping, suppressing, distorting, evil political lowlife scumbags this country has had since, well, since Nixon. It's an endlessly outrageous panaroma of grotesque iniquity and self-induced moral blindness----a veritable carnival of counterfeit virtue, satanic perversion of truth, and wilful callousness. They are the antithesis of honest and good government.
The army of moronic media apologists and three-monkey-like footsoldiers which allows it to exist are mired in objective evil, too slothful to rise above it.
and this one:
I get a kick out of telling Republicans that I think their party is objectively an instrument of Satan. And that I don't mean this in any metaphorical, wishy-washy liberal way. No, I mean that the Prince of Darkness aka Lucifer aka Beelzebub has turned the GOP into the most important single tool in the world today for oppressing poor people and laughing about it, for leading people on the road to spiritual destruction through worship of mammon, and for grotesquely distorting the message of Jesus. I love the reaction. But as a practising and believing Catholic, it's actually what I genuinely think.