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August 24, 2005

Pat Robertson is a LIAR

Televangelist, head of the highly influential (among Republicans at least) Christian Coalition and former Republican presidential candidate Pat Robertson today claimed that his statement about assasinating Chavez was taken out of context

"I said our special forces could take him out. Take him out could be a number of things including kidnapping," Mr Robertson said on his The 700 Club television program.

"There are a number of ways of taking out a dictator from power besides killing him. I was misinterpreted."

You are a LIAR, Pat. Here's what you said:
"If he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it."

Of course conservatives will now strategize on how to downplay and dismiss what Robertson said. It's what they did when he openly suggested that it'd be a good idea to friggin' NUKE the State Department building in Washington DC a couple years ago. Had a Muslim cleric said the very exact same thing, word for word, you know that he'd either have ended up in jail or, more likely, been shipped off to Gitmo.

Will conservative Republicans EVER hold their own to the same standards that they very loudly proclaim that others ought to be held to?

Maybe. And maybe a blizzard will blow thru Hades some day. Both seem to have about equal chances of happening...

Posted by Kevin at August 24, 2005 12:13 PM