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He's losing it.
Televangelist Robertson calls for assassination of Venezuelan president
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.Seattle Times— Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson called today for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, calling him a "terrific danger" to the United States.
Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition of America and a former presidential candidate, said on "The 700 Club" it was the United States' duty to stop Chavez from making Venezuela a "launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism."
Can you say Fatwa?
So if a wacked-out Muslim clerics says it, it's terrorism, but if a wacked-out Christian televangelist says it it's? Patriotism?
He's losing it.
Danny Danny Danny
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I gotta give you the link
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/posting.php
Wow, and that man talks to god, so we should probably listen to him. Religious extremists are gonna this country.
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
The guy is a dumbass, what else is there to say.
Last edited by Useruser666; 08-23-2005 at 01:31 PM. Reason: He's a dumbass too.
He is a dunbass, but he's not a cleric
hey... either we assasinate hugo or T.O... Pick one
I take some solace in the fact that Pat Robertson can't send out Wing Attack Plan R over the CRM-114 discriminator.
At least I think he can't.
He lost it a loooong time ago.
His funniest statement: "Chavez got a lot of oil and could hurt us..."
Get a ing hybrid you mother er!
Chavez. T.O. is definately a capitalist!
White House dismisses assassination call
Bush administration officials Tuesday disavowed Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson's call for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Venezuelan Vice President Vicente Rangel called Robertson's comments "criminal" and demanded U.S. action. Robertson -- founder of the Christian Coalition and a candidate for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination -- used his TV station label Chavez "a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil, that could hurt us badly."
maybe if they let us take out Chavez....we can let them take out Robertson!
I'd take out Robertson for free, if I wasn't a Christian who beleives killing is a sin
what a disgrace
christian leaders calling for an assasination? perhaps people are not that different after all.
Media Matters Calls on ABC Family to Discontinue Robertson Broadcasts
US NewswireWASHINGTON, Aug. 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following his Aug. 22 call for the United States to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Media Matters for America is urging ABC Family to stop showing Pat Robertson's The 700 Club. ABC Family shows The 700 Club three times a day.
Robertson, 700 Club host and founder of the Christian Coalition of America, has a history of vitriolic and false statements, as Media Matters has pointed out.
In addition to urging the assassination of a foreign leader, Robertson has blamed gays for divorce, abortion, and September 11, said that a gay-oriented event would bring about "terrorist bombs ... earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor," and stated that liberal judges are a bigger threat to society than Al Qaeda.
"Robertson's vitriol is not appropriate for children, or for anyone else, for that matter. His calls for the killing of a foreign leader certainly do not belong on a television channel that purports to offer family-friendly programming," said Media Matters for America President and CEO David Brock.
Unfortunately for MediA Matters, when Pat Robertson sold C.B.N. to Fox,one of the stipulations was that the 700 Club had to be aired on the new Fox Family Channel. When Fox turned around and sold it to ABC, the Robertson requirement was still in the contract. However, Newsmax, as we know is probably one of the all-time biased "news dissemination" organization in this country. They make some of the most outrageous claims about Democrats and believe they are doing the country a service in the process, but now, its them not saying something that takes them to a new, hypocritical low.
Today they sent out e-mails with the story of Pat Robertson's call for the assassination of Venezuela's President. They used an AP story verbatim. Did they go tsk. tsk. at the end of the story? No. Did they condemn Robertson? No. Did they indicate that they were repulsed by Robertson's words? Not a chance. In fact, they said nothing. That super moral group of over the hill NEOCON journalists didn't have the guts to condemn anything about the story.
Their hypocrisy is beyond belief. How low are they willing to go?
Dan, who cares what Robertson says? You bring this up like someone that people actually listen to said it.
Next, we'll be hearing about Jerry Falwell's hopes for chose an assisnation target.
Maybe the millions who watch his CBN broadcast care?Dan, who cares what Robertson says? You bring this up like someone that people actually listen to said it.
So what. There comes a point where a public figure can only embarrass himself so many times before even ardent fans start turning away. Pat Robertson has been a laughing stock to most Americans for years. I don't see how any of his crackpot comments is anything to fret over.
So your saying that there is no Christian Right influence in the Republican Party - it's all a left-wing conspiracy? Or are you saying that Pat Robertson is the Michael Moore of the right?
Your right, Hugo Chavez should just shake it off, I mean, so what if there's an American Air Craft carrier off his coast? Since when have these Christian fundies had any say in our government anyway? I mean, its not like W is a self-professed born-again Christian who has said he listens directly to God, right?
Hummm...I wonder what would happen if Chavez started selling his oil for Euros.
Pat Robertson the Michael Moore of the right... that's plain re ed. Outside of abortion and gay marriage and school prayer. Robertson is a liberal republican when it comes to welfare, affirmative action, and economics. He's closer to McCain than to Cheney politically.
As for the comment, i'd like to see the whole transcript of what he had said.
I was being sarcastic.
August 23, 2005
Robertson Is Pilloried for Assassination Call
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN / NY Times
Pat Robertson, the conservative Christian broadcaster, has attracted attention over the years for lambasting everything from feminists and "activist" judges to the United Nations and Disney World.
Now Mr. Robertson has set off an international firestorm with his comments on his television broadcast that the United States should kill Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, a leftist who sits atop the largest oil reserves outside the Middle East.
"If he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it Mr. Robertson said on his program, "The 700 Club" on Monday. "It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war. And I don't think any oil shipments will stop."
Today, Mr. Robertson's statements were denounced by both the State Department and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. In Caracas, Mr. Robertson was criticized by the vice president of Venezuela, and in Cuba, by President Fidel Castro.
Vice President José Vicente Rangel of Venezuela said: "This is a huge hypocrisy to maintain an an errorist line and at the same time have such terrorist statements as these made by Christian preacher Pat Robertson coming from the same country." He told reporters, "The ball is in the U.S. court now."
Mr. Rumsfeld dismissed Mr. Robertson's call for Mr. Chávez's assassination, saying to reporters: "Certainly it's against the law. Our department doesn't do that type of thing." He added, "Private citizens say all kinds of things all the time."
Sean McCormack, a State Department spokesman called Mr. Robertson's comments "inappropriate." Mr. Robertson unsuccessfully sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1988. He has often used his television program and the political advocacy group he founded, the Christian Coalition, to drum up support for Mr. Bush.
"Mr. Robertson has been one of the president's staunchest allies," said Bernardo Álvarez, the Venezuelan ambassador to the United States. "His statement demands the strongest condemnation by the White House."
Some of Mr. Robertson's conservative Christian allies distanced themselves from his comments. Rev. Rob Schenck, president of the National Clergy Council in Washington, released a statement calling on Mr. Robertson to "immediately apologize, retract his statement and clarify what the Bible and Christianity teaches about the permissibility of taking human life outside of law."
The Rev. Richard Cizik of the National Association of Evangelicals said in an interview that he and "most evangelical leaders" would disassociate themselves from such "unfortunate and particularly irresponsible" comments.
"It complicates cir stances for foreign missionaries and Christian aid workers overseas who are already perceived, wrongly, especially by leftists and other leaders, as collaborators with U.S. intelligence agencies," he added.
But other conservative Christian organizations remained silent, with leaders at the Traditional Values Coalition, the Family Research Council and the Christian Coalition saying through spokesmen that they were too busy to comment.
A spokeswoman for Pat Robertson said today that he is not giving interviews and had no further comment.
Liberals, however, were not silent. The Rev. Jesse Jackson called for an investigation by the Federal Communications Commission, just as it did when Janet Jackson's breast was exposed during a Superbowl broadcast. "This is even more threatening to hemispheric stability than the flash of a breast on television during a ball game," he said.
One liberal watchdog group, Media Matters for America, sent a letter urging the ABC Family network to stop carrying Mr. Robertson's program. Another group, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, asked President Bush to repudiate Mr. Roberson personally.
The program is broadcast by ABC Family, which agreed to carry it as part of the deal ABC made in 2001 to buy Fox Family Worldwide, which previously aired it.
In a statement today, ABC Family said the network was "contractually obligated to air 'The 700 Club' and has no editorial control over views expressed by the hosts or guests."
It added, "ABC Family strongly rejects the views expressed by Pat Robertson in the Aug. 22 telecast of the program."
Mr. Chávez, who won office in 1998, has become the Bush administration's most vocal antagonist in Latin America, accusing President Bush of terrorism for the war in Iraq and of trying to impoverish developing countries by pushing market reforms for their economies.
Mr. Chávez has often accused the United States of trying to assassinate him. The White House quickly welcomed a coup against Mr. Chávez in April 2002, but the Venezuelan president was returned to power two days later.
Today, Mr. Chávez was visiting Mr. Castro in Havana, where he shrugged off Mr. Robertson's assassination call. But Mr. Castro, standing beside the Venezuelan president, said of Mr. Robertson's remarks, "I think only God can punish crimes of such magnitude."
Mr. Robertson made his comments on his program immediately followed a segment about Venezuela. Speaking live in the studio, Mr. Robertson asserted that Mr. Chávez had "destroyed the Venezuelan economy" and was turning Venezuela into "a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism."
"Without question this is a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil that could hurt us very badly," Mr. Robertson said. "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, you know, strong-arm dictator."
"The 700 Club" has an audience of about one million people, according to Mr. Robertson's Web site.
Mr. Robertson has a history of getting attention for inflammatory remarks. In May, he argued that the threat to the United States from activist judges was "probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings." In 2003, Mr. Robertson said "maybe we need a very small nuke thrown" at State Department headquarters "to shake things up."
In 1998, he warned that hurricanes and other natural disasters would sweep down on Orlando, Fla., because sexuals were flocking to Disney World there on special "gay days." And he has often denounced the United Nations as a first step toward a dangerous "one world government."
Juan Forero contributed reporting from Bogotá, Colombia, for this article.
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