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Update: Good for Bolton and Jones:

`It’s insulting,” U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said when asked about Chavez’s comments. “I have serious work to do and I am not going to respond to that speech. It is too bad President Chavez doesn’t extend the same freedom of speech to the people of Venezuela.”

Frederick Jones, a spokesman for Bush’s National Security Council, said Chavez’s remarks about the president were “not worthy of a response.”

Yeah, we should continue hosting the increasingly anti-American United Nations. Not.

What appears to be a continuing anti-American theme at the U.N. was on full display today a short couple of hours after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prayed for the 12th Imam from the podium yesterday.

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez took the podium at the general assembly today and called President Bush the devil before he went into a mad diatribe; all the while holding up a copy of Chomsky’s American empire bashing book “Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance”.

Hot Air has the must see video and Musing Minds provides a transcript as follows:

I think that the first people who should read this book are our brothers and sisters in the United States because their threat is in their own house. 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’.

As Chomsky says here clearly and in depth, the American Empire is doing all it can to consolidate its hegemonistic system of domination and we can not allow them to do that. We can not allow a world dictatorship to be consolidated.

Currently the United States takes on a 22% assessment of the total annual United Nations regular budget. In 2006 terms that is $423 Million Dollars, more than twice that of any other nation with the exception of Japan.

Our payback is insults, schemes to undermine our initiatives and a general assembly that applauds and laughs together with the worlds leading terrorists as they hurl insult after insult at the United States on our dime.

There should be no doubt that the United Nations is an abject failure. For the life of me I can not understand why we continue to pour money into an organization whose mandate seems to exist merely to oppose the United States.

Others Bloggin on this issue:

• Michellle Malkin : Hugo Chavez unhinged; Bush=”El Diablo,” pimps Chomsky
• Stop The ACLU: Hugo Chavez Calls Bush “The Devil”
• Independent Conservative: Hugo Chavez Hates Bush, Hates America and Calls Bush the Devil, “El Diablo”.
• The Anchoress: Ahmadinejad’s speech perhaps opens eyes? Update - Chavez!
• Right Truth: Chavez calls Bush the devil - live blogging
• The Political Pitbull: VIDEO: Chavez Calls President Bush “El Diablo”
• Hyscience: Hugo Chavez unhinged
• Texas Rainmaker: Recycled Chavez
• Babalu Blog: Bizarro World

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