Robertson: Both a jerk and a liar.
Pat Robertson, Monday, regarding elected Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez:
If he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think we really ought to go ahead and do it. It’s a whole lot cheaper than starting a war. We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don’t need another $200 billion war to get rid of one strong-arm dictator. It’s a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with.”
Pat Robertson today:
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, but that happens all the time.
Black is white. Up is down.
Does he think that the media is so stupid that they’re not going to play Monday’s comment back to back with today’s? Or that Americans and Venezuelans are so stupid that we figure that when he says “if he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think we really ought to go ahead and do it,” he probably meant, like, we should “take him out” for a round of golf and drinks on the 9th hole?
All of this is to say far too little of having one of America’s most well-known, influential people calling for the assassination of the Democratically-elected president of an American nation. While an creepy guy and no friend of the U.S., Chávez has a 70% approval rating, or twice that of President Bush. This isn’t like calling for the assassination of somebody like Saddam Hussein.
Who would Jesus murder?
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