Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez has shown himself for the coarse, uncouth thug that he is, with his trash-talking horny, racist television ravings about Dr. Condoleezza Rice last Sunday. And how has the US media responded to this ratings-grabbing story? Why by ignoring it! The whole story has been ignored by the US media, except for one anodyne little notation in one news item. Blogger Miguel Octavio finds this just a little bizarre.