Over at the left’s premier “progressive” web site, the Kos Kidz are sticking up for poor Hugo Chavez: Daily Kos: More Press Smears of Venezuela’s Chavez.

The British BBC reported yesterday that President Chavez of Venezuela is creating a “single, separate party”, suggesting thereby that he is creating a single party state. This is untrue, and yet another example of the pervasive misinformation the western media is distributing about the reality of Chavez and his government.

The media, particularly in the U.S. and Britain, has been enthusiastically supporting the U.S. State Department’s anti-Chavez policies which are designed to depose socialist Chavez from office so he can be replaced by those acceptable to the ne-conservative administration. Venezuela likely has greater oil reserves than those in the Middle East and the U.S. wants to control them.

(Hat tip: Killgore.)