Hugo Chavez giving heating oil to Bush villages

In an interesting turn of events, Citgo is giving 100 gallons of heating fuel to every family in 151 rural Alaskan villages. Citgo is owned by Venezuela's national oil company, and Hugo Chavez probably couldn't resist an opportunity to make George Bush look bad by alleviating his constituents' suffering. Fuel oil is quite expensive, and rural Alaskans are feeling the pinch. What's interesting is the article's tone: "But the gift worth roughly $5 million comes courtesy of a country whose leftist president is pals with America's enemies and supports Iran's nuclear ambitions. . . . Hugo Chavez also calls our president mean things, such as 'genocidal murderer' and 'madman.'"

"Mean things?" Are we still on the playground? Chavez is a high-profile Fidel Castro buddy, and perhaps not a nice man, but when was the last time a news story about out our president said something like "America's right-wing president is pals with some of the world's worst polluters and supports brutal dictatorships in Central Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. George W. Bush also has his underlings call people who don't agree with him mean things, such as 'terrorist sympathizer,' and 'unpatriotic.'"

I'm just saying . . .