Taking An Eye Off the Ball Just a Tad

From Drudge, the Jerusalem Post is reporting that Hugo Chavez has said some anti-Semitic things. This isn't very cool, but on balance, if the worst Chavez ever did was offend some Jews, the world would be a better place. I'll wager that folks, Venezuelans in particular, would be willing to give him a pass if he weren't restricting freedoms, destroying the economy, stealing elections, murdering opponents, formenting socialist revolution across South America, and militarizing.

In a related item, it is rumored that Robert Mugabe has bad table manners.