There's nothing like the rage of a pissed off American media.

 Western media is out to Get Chavez. They're casting him as some kind of egomaniacal dictator out to make himself into some kind of cult-of-personality hero and give a giant middle finger to the United States, which is of course completely an innocent figure in Latin American history.

 Here's an example: "Chavez Threatens to Seize Banks, Media as Vote Nears".

 By portraying Venezuela's economic independence and his so- called socialist revolution as being under siege, Chavez is seeking to motivate undecided supporters to approve the referendum, said David Scott Palmer, a professor of political science and international relations at Boston University.

``Chavez sees a tightening electoral situation for Sunday and this explains the invective and the increase in conspiracy theories involving various foreign actors,'' Palmer said in a telephone interview.

Oh my God. Seizing banks and media? More like Hugo "Bolshevik" Chavez, right? 

He's using conspiracy theories about evil Amerikkka to get what he wants, right? After all, Bloomberg's saying it. Bloomberg  wouldn't happen to have any financial interests in suppressing left-wing governments in Latin America, would it? No -- that can't be right. It's an innocent bystander, a defender of our moral interests, the nice blue-eyed blonde that waits until marriage. 

 Yet some part of me wants to investigate this. After all, I've some stuff about some kind of 2002 coup lead by leaders of the private media and banks in Venezuela against the democratically elected government, that the CIA was involved, that the US immediately recognized the new dictatorship. 

 But that just can't be right. After all, the Wall Street Journal reminds us that the referendum Venezuela is about to vote on would be an electoral "coup" -- coup, as in bad things like dictators. Some would mention that the referendum's simply on abolishing term limits, and that our Congress doesn't have term limits and that FDR didn't have term limits, and that term limits don't actually deter democracy at all, in fact without them the people can actually choose someone they like AGAIN -- but why listen to such Communist Fifth Legion propoganda at a time like this?

 We have to get Chavez. He's a madman. After all, he's threatening to cut off oil to the United States if it attempts to undermine the election, possibly through another coup attempt.

 We just can't have that. That's our oil -- Jesus just put it under Venezuela's soil for some strange reason. And if Chavez is trying to turn his country's economy to the left to bring millions of desperately poor people out of poverty, then screw him. Allowing us to sit in gridlock on I-75 in SUV's is much more important. You'd better watch out, Chavez. The game has a name, and it's Get Chavez.