The Cuckoo from Caracas

"Hey, Bellevue hospital? Are you missing a patient?"

Venezuelan Dictator-in-training Hugo Chavez went to the United Nations today and called President Bush "the devil."

Whether because of jet lag after flying around the world to hug it out with real dictators or he's just got a terminal case of Castroitis, Chavez blew a gasket during his not-too-anticipated address to the United Nations General Assembly.

Musing Minds has a partial transcript:

"The devil is right at home. The devil, the devil himself is right in the house. And the devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the devil came here. Right here. (crosses himself) Right here. And it smells of sulfer still today. This table that I am now standing in front of, yesterday ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the President of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as 'the devil' came here talking as if he owned the world. Truly as the owner of the world. I think we can call a psychiatrist to analyze yesterday's statement made by the President of the United States. As the spokesman of imperialism he came to share his nostrums. To try to preserve the current pattern of domination, exploitation and pillage of the peoples of the world. An Alfred Hitchcock movie could use it as a scenario. I would even propose a title, 'The Devil's Recipe'."

The real witch's brew is whatever Chavez and his new Iranian comrade-in-craziness are cooking up.

For why we have to take this jerk seriously, read Cigar Mike Pancier at Cuban American Pundits.

And Mike's also got how we wish President Bush would respond to Chavez.

(H/T to Malkin.)