Don't insult the President.

The 7-Eleven convenient store chain announced today that it was dropping Citgo as its fuel provider because Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called President George W. Bush "the devil."

Americans, it seems, are outraged that a foreign leader would use insulting rhetoric about the president. There are calls for boycotts of all things Venezuelan. There are even some who are calling for Noam Chomsky's head because Chavez told folks to read "Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance." Fox News referred to Chomsky as an "American leftist writer." The news outlet was particularly shrill in its criticism of Chavez and the United Nations.

I've never fully understood the right's desire to kill the U.N., but they point to last week's speeches by Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as reasons to end the international institution.

They have the right to their opinions and their boycotts. But the irony here is that after the 2001 attacks in New York and DC, no one on the right called for a boycott of Saudi oil.

The message, I guess, is that it's OK to kill Americans just don't insult the president. That we won't stand for.