EEEVOOOOO!

Was it anti-American kiss-up day in New York? John Stewart had on Evo Morales of Bolivia and apparently fawned all over him. He didn't even deploy a faintly Lee Bollinger-style fig leaf of criticism for this clown.

I won't pretend that Evo is a dictator to hte degree of Chavez or Ahmedinejad, but he's good buddies with the former and his pro-coca candidacy was subsidized by Libya. He's a socialist and a nationalist and also he has staffed the government with his fellow loonball bat-crap crazy-go-nuts types merrily driving the country into Oblivia.

Yeah, amazing Horatio Alger story, Stewart. Fire up rioting crowds of farmers and miners with chicha and singani and get them to shut down the capital city and pretty much all commerce all over the impoverished nation. Hold it hostage long enough, and they surrender and put this wacko in charge.

"Professionals and intellectuals are not the only ones who can be presidents," he said. "Indigenous people can also be president."

"In Bolivia," Stewart deadpanned, leaning forward conspiratorially. "In America, it's a little rigged."

Back home, Morales has faced political turmoil. Violent protests have prompted an assembly rewriting Bolivia's constitution to call a monthlong recess in hopes of rescuing the stalled process.

But when Stewart urged Morales to discuss his reforms, the president got free reign to extol his successes and drew wild applause with nearly every example. He finished with a flourish.

"Please don't consider me part of the axis of evil," Morales said to a roar of laughter from his host and audience.

Here's the JYB scoop on Evo:
Coke production's up, and I don't mean cola.
Signed a trade deal with Iran.
Evo's speechwriter has terror ties.
Full-on dictator-style megalomania? Check.

And he ate Carmen Miranda!!!

It makes me sick to see this thug feted on the talk-show circuit.