Pat Robertson and international relations

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 8/23/05 at 3:23pm

Re: Pat Robertson's comments that the democratically-elected head of Venezuela should be assassinated.

Could he be more of a dweeb?

I'm not sure I know of anyone who sticks his foot in his mouth so often.

I'd be impressed if he even knew anything more about Venezuela than what his quick read of foxnews.com gave him.

Updated On: 8/23/05 at 03:23 PM

[morosco]

Posted: 8/23/05 at 4:14pm

When he's not spending time promoting the assasination of a president he's promoting his diet shake drink! "It's rich! It's creamy! It's the most delicious, nutritious shake you will ever taste!"

Are we being pranked??????????


Pat Robertson's Diet Shake

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 8/23/05 at 4:22pm

The White House has dismissed this call of Robertson's. Robertson done ****ed up!

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/23/robertson.chavez/index.html

[morosco]

Posted: 8/23/05 at 4:24pm

No fruit cup for Pat Robertson!

[WindyCityActor]

Posted: 8/23/05 at 4:27pm

And who could forget Pat blaming Gays and Lesbians for 911.

[morosco]

Posted: 8/23/05 at 4:32pm

I'm almost ashamed of being born in Virginia. Home of Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Phillip Morris, PETA, AOL, the list goes on and on.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 8/23/05 at 4:34pm

Don't you love how he says Venezuela is becoming a launching pad for Islamic extremism when the country is, according to the U.S. State Department, 98% Roman Catholic or Protestant?

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 8/23/05 at 4:36pm

Priest, no one who supports Pats Robertson has even a cursory relationship with facts.
Religious rhetoric, on the other hand, they get. Hyperbole also.

Updated On: 8/23/05 at 04:36 PM

[Plum]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 5:35pm

Yeeeah, and "take him out" is commonly understood to mean what, exactly?

The word "wingnut" was invented for this guy.

Posted: 8/24/05 at 6:22pm

well take him out could meand "on a date" or "to lunch" or "for a walk" but...when the sentence which precedes that is talk of assasination and "we should do it" than it means "to kill."

"but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. " Updated On: 8/24/05 at 06:22 PM

[Plum]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 6:35pm

Well, now he's apologized. It would be nice if he hadn't gone the denial route first, but what the hey.
CNN

[Orpheum]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 6:39pm

Yeah but Plum - he may have apologized, but it was phony. He still feels the same way.

Posted: 8/24/05 at 6:41pm

I read your link and it's not clear if he apologized or he stood by his "I was misinterpreted." He did not say I was wrong. He said "it is wrong." Not really a big deal but it still sounds like spin.
Updated On: 8/24/05 at 06:41 PM

Posted: 8/24/05 at 6:51pm

Anywho...How many commandments is this guy intent on breaking? First he advocates killing and then he lies about it. His neighbour better keep an eye on his a**.
Updated On: 8/24/05 at 06:51 PM

[Plum]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 7:41pm

Last time I checked, "Is it right to call for assassination? No, and I apologize for that statement" constitutes an acknowledgement of wrong and a genuine apology. Not that it makes him any less of a wingnut.

Posted: 8/24/05 at 7:45pm

Yes it does. and I apologize.

[Plum]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 7:46pm

But isn't wingnut a fun word?

...

Okay, I've been at work since 9 after 5 hours of sleep. I'm getting a little punchy.

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 1:20am

Wingnut is a fun word. It conjures up such a quirky image, too.

If this was some random person on the street, he'd be denounced and dismissed as a madman. But because he's a religious leader, some people actually believe in him without thinking about how ridiculous he is.

[Forester]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 2:15am

People should ask him if his $8 million investment in Liberia during the Charles Taylor era did him any good. Then they should ask him if the people of Siera Leonne should forgive him for his support of Charles Taylor.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 2:24am

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 8:02am

Other than be a Marxist and a buddy of Castro's, what has Chavez done that constitutes him as a dictator?

Updated On: 8/25/05 at 08:02 AM

[Plum]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 2:15pm

Sorry...small nitpick, but I think dictatorship is defined by how you rule, not how you get into power.

Posted: 8/25/05 at 2:16pm

Pat Robertson did indeed make a half hearted apology as I noted earlier. And then he proceeded to compare Chavez to a man driving a car into a group of people and saying "...as a christian you can't simply wait for the catastrophe..." He then used the example of a man who had conspired to kill Hitler and was himself imprisoned and killed.

So maybe Pat Robertson could explain, one more time!, how it is that he's really sorry for his call to assasinate Chavez?
Updated On: 8/25/05 at 02:16 PM

[Plum]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 2:24pm

Oh, he brought in the Hitler comparison without the benefit of a planned genocide. Sorry, Pat, you lose. Again. Godwin's law and all that.

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 3:36pm

Small nitpick, Godwin's law is internet-specific. Therefore, outside the bound of Pat Roebrtson's television comments.

However, ABC Family has now come out strongly disagreeing with Pat's comments. To me, that is a crock of poo. If you disagree enough, fire him or drop the show. Otherwise, just shut up. I'm done with ABC Family until they grow testicales large enough to stand up to the REAL mad man.

Updated On: 8/25/05 at 03:36 PM