UNLEASHED, UNCUT, UNREAD



8.23.2005

Right and Wrong

You really don’t need to bother following this link because I’ve pretty much copied and pasted the entire article below:

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson suggested on-air that American operatives assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to stop his country from becoming "a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism."

"We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability," Robertson said Monday on the Christian Broadcast Network's "The 700 Club." "We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator," he continued. "It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with."

"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," Robertson said. "It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... and I don't think any oil shipments will stop."

Robertson has made controversial statements in the past. In October 2003, he suggested that the State Department be blown up with a nuclear device. He has also said that feminism encourages women to "kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."
Pat Robertson has the right to say inflammatory things. The First Amendment affords him that right and I certainly don’t want to take it away. What scares me is that Mr. Robertson commands such a massive, obsequious audience. Listen, this religious zealot just dismissed civilized diplomacy in favor of ideological barbarism. I’m often hesitant to harangue conservative spokespersons because these issues and these people are never black and white. Nobody likes a grey scale, but that’s what we’re working with most of the time. This is different; let’s call a spade a spade. Pat Robertson fell on his own sword yesterday and Right wing America needs to realize that continuing their support for this extremist will only cost them in the long run.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well I guess I can sort of relate to what he said about feminism. Right after reading "The Feminine Mystique" in college, I cast spells on every girl on campus so they would fall in love with me and we could have lesbian make-out sessions instead of learning about capitalism in our Econ class. Then we found some poor guys (sucks to go to a school with only lesbians) and used their sperm to make babies, which we then sacrificed during our annual withcraft celebration entitled
"You can't make us have babies". Oh, and we threw in our bras along with the babies in the firepit as homage to the 60s feminist icons who paved the way for us all.

It makes so much sense, thanks for clearing everything up Patty. And thanks for further tarnshing America's image worldwide, we REALLY needed that.

Phil said...

Dr.W.-If this one slides through the cracks, I can't forsee too many things that won't. Thanks for being as nauseated as myself.

Phil said...

K-You are SOOOOOO right. In fact, take your talismans, brooms, and goopy cauldrons and make your way to Tennessee. They have 'therapy' sessions that will wake you up, you witchy witch.

Oh, you and your kind also need to stop using those college boys that way. Those boys need their sperm to impregnate politicians' daughters who will then purchase private abortions in upscale clinics, while publically denouncing such moral abominations.

seriously, you evil person.