Well, this story is about the N.K. portion, so why would it touch on that?  That's either part of a broader story on his speech or a more focused one.  

I certainly don't remember "The Dems and the liberal media" championing socialism in Venezuela, sure a few here and a few there did.  But let's not pretend that Venezuela is really a socialist nation, it's a dictatorship with and economy based almost entirely on one source of income.