YOU'VE GOTTA DO BETTER THAN THAT, HUGO

All this outrage over Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez calling George W. Bush a "devil" at the United Nations is just a bit much. Doesn't anybody remember the following exchange between Dwight Eisenhower and Charles de Gaulle at the 1958 NATO conference in Brussels?

Eisenhower: "You, sir, are nothing more than an enormous, baguette-eating poopy-head! I can hardly see you through all the flies."

de Gaulle: "Mon dieu, how can I take seriously the ramblings of a certified fart-box such as yourself? May bumblebees suck foul nectar from your nipples until you curse your mother's oversized underpants!"

Yes, there was a time when world leaders really knew something about trading insults. We'll see you on the Amateur Hour, Hugo.