While great swaths of the right still have not condemned Robertson's call for terrorism, some have at least tried to distance themselves from it. It does appear that the majority of the right, while lacking the moral fiber to stand up to him, are at least ashamed enough to remain silent.
I had put Patti Davis response as part of an update of my original reaction, but it really belongs here.
Pat Robertson considers himself a man of God, a Christian, a preacher of the Gospel. To all of these aspects of his self-delusion, the only appropriate response is: Huh? His latest suggestion, as this self-proclaimed man of God, is that Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, should be assassinated.
UPDATE
This is just side splitting funny. Rev. Pat is now claiming he was misunderstood.
"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," said Robertson, who founded the Christian Coalition. "It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... And I don't think any oil shipments will stop."
Ok, here are your words, how exactly have we misunderstood the intent of your statement?
UPDATE II
What a ill-informed, unchristian clown this man is showing himself to be. His current defense of his statement:
"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.
As you can see from his quote above he clearly did say 'Assassination', in addition whether you are talking about Murder or Kidnapping you are still talking about a crime. One last little tidbit for our own little evil reverend; While Hugo Chavez may be objectionable to you and members of the current administration, he is not a dictator. He was elected by the people of his nation, and that election was affirmed in a 2004 recall vote (with aggressive international supervision) with 58% of the vote.
But, I guess when you want to try to justify killing or abduction, making your target as loathsome as possible is to be expected,
Dishonest and sinful, but expected.
2 comments:
Yes, he was mis-understood. He was asking God, not the US government to kill him.
Of course, God might choose to use the US government as his tool in the divine mission.
Oh please, you're every bit as crazy as Robertson.
Lets suppose that's what he was asking (which he WASN'T, reading the transcript), it somehow makes it okay now to ask God to murder someone.
Now I know who Robertson caters to, like minded loonies like you.
He's a psychopathic megalomaniac who places the lives of millions of innocent Americans here and abroad by further validating other like minded lunatics like Bin Laden in their perception of Americans.
Heck, Robertson has more in common with the Islamist radicals who likewise preach a method of hate, than many Muslims I know.
Of course, then again, as he told Stephanopolus (sp?, he doesn't consider a bunch of bearded terrorists who fly planes into the WTC as dangerous as federal judges.
Pat Robertson and his kind are the equivalent of the Christian Taliban
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