Call It An Axis of Devil

Yesterday the devil came here," Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez said last week at the U.N. "It still smells of sulfur today." The one who allegedly left the satanic traces was George W. Bush, who addressed the General Assembly the day before. But in painting the Prez as the devil, Chávez put him in good company. The insult isn't new--Satan has apparently possessed people on both sides of the political aisle, in books, on TV and all over the U.S.

GEORGE BUSH Like father, like son. In 1982, Bob Jones III-- of the eponymous Fundamentalist Christian school-- labeled the then V.P. "a...

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