The rhetoric of Bush (evil) and Chavez (devil)

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"Of course he feels that the U.S. government is part of trying to pull a coup on him. ... But my appeal to him is get beyond the anger," Jackson said.

"I think that he should not be calling President Bush 'devil.' President Bush should not be calling him 'evil' or calling him 'tyrant,'" Jackson said. "We must cease these hostilities."

House majority leader, Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, called Chavez a "power-hungry autocrat" and said his U.N. speech on Wednesday was "an embarrassment and an insult to the American people."

The New York Daily News Page 1 headline on Friday told Chavez to "ZIP IT!", and the New York Post called him a "JERK!" and the "Caracas Crackpot."

Chavez stood by his comment.

"Sometimes the devil takes the form of people," Chavez told hundreds of supporters in a church in Harlem on Thursday. He called the war in Iraq criminal and said Bush is a "sick man."

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Chavez: "Bush Has Called Me Worse Things"
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1538296,00.html