Did Mark Lloyd praise Hugo Chavez as Glenn Beck claimed?

I don't know if you can say that he "praised" him, but he definitely was in support of the way that Chavez dealt with the media speaking out against his regime. I saw the same clip from Beck's show, and I feel that maybe he was embellishing it a little, but it's the media, what source does not embellish their stories to try and get people to support them. You can read some of Lloyd's quotes in this article, http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2009/ss_politics0689_08_31.asp. No matter if you are on the right or the left, the scary part of this matter is that Lloyd supports silencing certain media outlets by the government, and that directly defies our 1st amendment right. I don't care if you agree with Beck or not, the issue is that there is someone who is in power now that does not see the 1st amendment as important as it should be.