He and 'Stretch' Pelosi are the lib-dem shills, in that the backlash is building from America against that POS punk who called W a 'devil', and they're trying to soften the treasonous lib-dems' daily position of calling Bush a liar, drunk, etc etc etc. Deflect the dirty name-calling from the lib-dem garbage, to Chavez.
Some People Just Need Killing™.
Hell, even the woman translator for Pinky Chavez emphasized his words during his "devil" remarks. Normally the translator speaks in a monotone voice, but not in this case.
Your Leader mocks and derides the President most of the time. Why get yer panties in a wad over all this?