Pat Robertson is an Idiot
Jon Stewart lampooned televangelist Pat Robertson the other night because Robertson offered an on-air, heartfelt prayer to God asking for another chance to appoint a Supreme Court justice this summer.
It seems that Robertson doesn’t only have federal judges on his hit list. Today comes news that he is calling for the assassination of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez. (Chavez, if you aren’t aware, is a socialist who has been intensely critical of U.S. foreign policy.) Here are the good Reverend’s words:
“You know, I don’t know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it,” Robertson said. “It’s a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... and I don’t think any oil shipments will stop.”
Well.
This is why so many people I know love to watch the 700 Club for the sheer entertainment value. Personally, I’d like to see him run for the Republican nomination for president again. We could all enjoy the laughs.
Of course, Venezuela’s government is not laughing. Their Vice-President issued an interesting statement saying, “The ball is in the U.S. court, after this criminal statement by a citizen of that country,” Rangel told reporters. “It’s huge hypocrisy to maintain this discourse against terrorism and at the same time, in the heart of that country, there are entirely terrorist statements like those.”
MSNBC also reported a Venezuelan legislator putting it more simply and directly: “This man cannot be a true Christian. He’s a fascist.”
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Pat Robertson is not only an idiot, but a terrorist. His statement calling for the assasination of a twice(!) democratically elected foreign leader is intolerable. Imagine for a moment if this were instead a muslim leader calling for the assasination of Tony Blair. He would be in jail before you could blink! It's simply hypocrisy that Pat Robertson is still allowed to sit up there on his idiotic television program and spout his pseudo-christian bullshit.
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