Longtime reader Scott came across this pro-Chavez rant in Counterpunch from a fellow named Clifton Ross from Cal-Berekely who just happens to feed from the trough of Chavez' Ministry of Culture.

Back on November 19th, 2007, Keith named Chavez runner-up for WPITW for threatening to urinate on a reporter

The runner-up, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, the non-stop coffee drinker who supposedly could go through his eight-hour TV talk show without a bathroom break. Please erase that image now. At the OPEC summit in Saudi Arabia, ending a TV interview there by saying, quote--this is translated--"Look, I have to go. For a while now I've needed to go to the bathroom. And I'm going to pee. Do you want me to pee on you," unquote. Gosh, President Chavez, maybe you should have asked that before you started doing that to your own country's laws and citizens.

This did not sit well with Ross:

...it's a tragic commentary on the state of "news" and journalism that bodily functions become major news stories, be they sexual or excretory, especially when people like Chávez have so many more interesting features worthy of discussion, most notably, ideas. That Olbermann would stoop to the news cycle at its most base level is, itself, a disappointment. But his comment after the reference to "peeing on" someone was more so: "Maybe you should have asked that before you started doing that to your own country's laws and citizens."

To what is Mr. Olbermann referring when he states that Chávez is "peeing on" the laws and citizens of Venezuela?

Apparently Keith didn't get the memo that Chavez is one of the "good guys" over on Daily Kos.