The Democrats' "Happy Fascist" + today's Bush=Hitler article

The locally operated alternative weekly, "The Pulse of the Twin Cities", has a gushing tribute to El Presidente for life Hugo Chavez:

http://pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=2328

Perhaps some of you've heard that it's now illegal to criticize the Chavez regime:

Human Rights Watch: Americas : Venezuela
Referendum Process Strengthens Rule of Law, But Judiciary Still ... Venezuela's Supreme Court Upholds Prior Censorship and "Insult Laws ... Letter to President Chavez The main purpose of this letter is to ...
http://hrw.org/doc?t=americas&c=venezu

Here's some background info on the situation there:
"The Devil's Excrement":
http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/

"Venezuela News and Views":
http://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/

and...drumroll please....
Today's Bush/Hitler comparison! >

(from The Maui News) Parallels drawn between Hitler’s Germany, America:
http://www.mauinews.com/story.aspx?id=17288

Now I'm off to the "Latke-Hamenpash" debate at the University of Minnesota...