The American media has failed miserably in this episode and I don't trust these convenient narratives.

First, we don't know the U.S. wasn't involved as Booman and you and the others are assuming.  We know the coup leaders were trained by the C.I.A. and in contact with the U.S. goverment.  The story the U.S. media is running with is the U.S. knew the coup plotters were up to something but didn't approve was the same story the Bush administration gave about Venezuela.  It may be true or it may be cover.

Second.  We will see how far Obama and the U.S. go in opposing this coup.  They haven't withrawn diplomats.  My bet would be they will not impose sanctions or other harsh punishment as they do for the "undemocratic" regimes in Iran or Venezuela. The U.S. uses words like "democracy" and "dictator" very inconsistantly in this region.  Obama will get the best of both worlds if he "condemns" the coup yet learns to accept them and all the benefits they provide to U.S. business interests.

Third.  I don't trust the media.  The media uncritically put out the views of the military coup leaders.  One has to go to places like Booman's friend at Narco News to get the straight dope.  Putting out false information and controlling the news during a coup has traditionally been done by and in the interest of the U.S. government-backed institutions (see e.g. Chile, Venezula).  The U.S. has a huge secret budget and explicitly uses propaganda and wages war via news.  Remember the Bush adminstration efforts in this regard and how progressives used to be against this (I've got some great quotes from Mark Twain if anyone wants to see how this was even going on in the beginnning of the 20th Century).  How do we know that the huge push in the Bush admnistration to wage a news war in the war on terror and to go to the "dark side" in our covert actions has not spread its tenatacles all over the world?

I'm not saying the U.S. was involved here.  But I would not leap to the conclusion that it's not involved (and we do know the U.S. trained these leaders in such things as coups and were in contact before the coup).  

The U.S. will probably slowly "accept" the new regime as the U.S. business interests surely already have.