"I didn't say 'assassination.' I said our special forces should 'take him out.' And 'take him out' can be a number of things, including kidnapping; there are a number of ways to take out a dictator from power besides killing him. I was misinterpreted by the AP [Associated Press], but that happens all the time," Robertson said on "The 700 Club" program.
Only that's not what Robertson said on the 700 Club Monday, he said this:
"If he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think we really ought to go ahead and do it," said Robertson on Monday's program. "It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war."
Watch the video here.
I don't know how you can parse what Robertson said in any way but a calling for the US government to assassinate Chavez. Who at CNN is pushing Robertson's misinterpretation story virtually unchallenged? What happened to the good old days when the truth trumped hackery?
Pat Robertson is truly a looney bin fuckwit who says looney bin fuckwit shit all the time, usually without being challenged. This is a good example of what happens when he is. Networks go running to hide.
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I had never before realized that this thug Chevez was such a holy man to liberals. I know that liberals tend to turn a blind eye to human rights violations when they are perpetrated by leftist governments, but I didn't know they worship the ground Chavez walks on. Personally, if I heard this South American strongman got whacked, my response would be, "Uh, ok. Wanna go for coffee?" And to be brutally honest, what would the history of the world be if someone had assassinated Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Hirohito, Ho Chi Minh, Mao, Pol Pot, Saddam, etc., while they were still only tinhorn dictators?
Who is Pat Robertson? He is a private citizen. He is an evangelist. He founded the Christian Coalition. He appears daily on the 700 Club TV show. He has no connection with the government, he has no influence, so far as I can tell, with top government officials. Therefore, under our basic right of free speech -- the very right liberals routinely use to defend sedition, treason and pornography -- he should be allowed to say anything he wants. Nope. Not when Pat Robertson says it. Louis Farrakhan can call for the extermination of Jews and you won't hear a whimper of protest from the left. But when Pat Robertson says something stupid and non-Christian (and he did), it works thousands of left-wing drama queens into a hysterical frenzy. I spent several hours cruising liberal blogs last night (shudder) and the bile, the vitriol, the almost demonic hatred being aimed at this man was totally out of proportion with anything he has ever said.
Why does the left hate Pat Robertson at such a reptilian level? Take a look at the 700 Club Website. Click on the CBN Outreach tab and take a look at the good this organization does. They feed the hungry, they clothe people, they bring medical help to those in need, they help millions of poverty-stricken people all over the world. They actually DO what liberals only TALK about doing. Now, take a look at that annoying Make Poverty History site. Can you find ANY projects for the poor there? You can wear white wristbands to help the impoverished. You can send a postcard to vote for trade justice. You can put wallpapers and screen savers on your computer to end suffering. GASP! Why, you can even wear skimpy briefs to make poverty history!!!! WHAT CRAP! Liberals should be donating their time and money to CBN, not throwing it at this phony baloney Make Poverty History scam!
Pat Robertson is helping MILLIONS, while Make Poverty History is substituting symbolism for substance and is no doubt paying their board members six-figure salaries. Liberals should LOVE Pat Robertson. But they don't.
The left hates Pat Robertson because he is a man of God and they hate God. The left hates Pat Robertson because he is a Christian and liberals hate Christians. If the devil engaged in politics, he'd no doubt be a.......hmmmm. HMMMM.
Wow! Mr. Ranger, did you paste this message on all the "liberal" blogs you had to force yourself to cruise? For a "journalist" you seem to have a lot of time on your hands.
For the record, liberals or the left or any other label you choose don't hate Christians. Or God. Some of us don't believe enough to care. Some of us do. I for one am a deeply spiritual person. So I won't speak for other "liberals" when I say that I don't hate Pat Robertson. I hate almost everything he stands for. Not because he's a Christian, but because through word and deed he's proven that he's not.
A few things Lonely. First, Chavez is a democratically elcted official. Remember that spreading democracy thing. Second of all, assassinating any of those other assholes you mentioned would fuck up the oil market. It is still selling in the upper sixties, isn't it? Lastly, if Farrakhan on any one else you perceive to be on the left said any crazy shit like this, I would rip them also.
For the record Jules, if you go to Lonely's blogger profile the first movie listed in his favorites is Sleepless in Seattle.
Awwww...a romantic!
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