Word: satans
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...calling Bush "Mister Danger," a reference to a quintessential Ugly American in Venezuela's best-known novel, Doña Bárbara, a torrid story set not far from where Chávez was raised. And the "devil" barb, he points out, stems from a legend about a llanero who beats Satan in a singing contest. But at some point even cowboys have to learn a more diplomatic tune...
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...
...President Bush may have put Iran in the "axis of evil," but Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini did it to the U.S. first. In 1979 he started what has become an Iranian tradition--calling the U.S. "the Great Satan...
...makes the usual public issues of private parts, honeymoon tiffs and a persistent fan who cornered White and wouldn't shut up ("He raped my ear"). The material is just O.K., but the salesmanship is expert. He's a natural-born charmer with just a soupçon of Satan...
...Khatami: I never say "Great Satan." But I get really upset when Iran is called part of the "Axis of Evil." Even [Ayatollah] Khomeini [who coined the phrase] was referring only to U.S. policies - not to the American people or America itself, which is a great and big country...