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Pat Robertson

By Judd Legum on Aug 22nd, 2005 at 5:15 pm

Pat Robertson

calls for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.



46 Responses to “Pat Robertson”

  1. Terrytheturtle says:

    I suppose it is easy to sideline Robertson as simply a lunatic with his own TV station, except when you see stuff like this. Can anyone describe how influential he is with the current administration? And what does this call to break one of God’s Commandments have to do with Christianity?


  2. kindness says:

    Be careful what you wish for Pat.

    New Age thought (some at least) will claim that your thoughts and deeds come back to you trice over.

    So now I’m wondering, are these 3 people going to assasinate Pat all at once or are they going to take turns assasinating each resurection to make sure he stays dead?


  3. Terrytheturtle says:

    I reread the Pat Robertson post and I think I’ve just figured out who Neddy is…


  4. Al Delgado says:

    Robertson and his ilk, bow to idiology, instead of the Christian values as lived by Jesus the Christ. The Lord will deal with these modern day bad pharasees.
    Robertson and his ilk forget that God is God, and not man. Humility, true humility in the best sense of the word is lost on these pharasees.


  5. Jesus Christ God of WAR says:

    Ah, the leader of the Amerikan Talban speaks.

    Maybe Pat’s the one who needs to see the inside of a pine box?


  6. Marie says:

    Pat Robertson – the preacher – the representative of morality (so he says) in America – calls for an assassination. Is this the word of God in his head?
    Or is he a nut case, ready for the asylum? I think it’s the latter.
    What a goddamned hypocrite!


  7. Bobby says:

    Once again, the “values” of our conservative friends are on display when we must respect life at every level, except when it becomes expedient to their cause to destroy it.


  8. Mark says:

    Leave poor Pat alone, he is just spreading the christian words of Jesus:

    Reject other people who do not conform to your faith; kill those who you see as a danger; and lastly, do not question their authority.

    What an old wind bag. He knows it. At each point in time, the people of the world are wising up and each day they need to huff and puff a little harder.

    Technology is slowly, but surely eroding their formerly unchecked power. They are sick about it, they know it.


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  11. Optimist says:

    I don’t know what irritates me more, that Pat Robertson exists or that people actually follow him. It’s sad really. Very sad.


  12. Corporal Dwayne Hicks says:

    Long Live Chavez! He called chimpy a pendejo!


  13. Corporal Dwayne Hicks says:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Chavez

    The claim that Chávez “once called Saddam Hussein ‘a brother’” has been repeated in a number of media sources, but appears to be unsubstantiated. The claim originated with the Associated Press (Fred Pals, “Chavez Pushes for OPEC Unity”, Associated Press Online, August 5, 2000), but is apparently a misinterpretation of Chávez’s reference to OPEC leaders, just prior to his 2000 tour of OPEC countries, as “our Arab brothers” (Larry Rohter, “Paratrooper Politics: A special report; A Combative Leader Shapes Venezuela to a Leftist Vision”, The New York Times, July 28, 2000).
    2⇧ Although pendejo was translated as “asshole” in the original Reuters report, this translation has been contested. According to one critic, pendejo is a non-flattering designation whose exact meaning varies in South American countries, but in the Venezuelan use it refers to “a person of limited intelligence” ; Chávez used it because President Bush “believed what others were telling him about Venezuela”. [14]


  14. Cheech Marin says:

    Pendejo? Oh ummm… that means… my good friend! yeah!


  15. C says:

    he also prayed that a justice on the supreme court would die so the conservatives can get another pick.


  16. Susan says:

    I think Roberts just put a target on his own head. What an idiot.


  17. TAC says:

    WHO WOULD JESUS ASSASSINATE?

    PAT ROBERTSON, “LIQUOR OFFICER”
    “In his 1986 presidential campaign, Robertson claimed that he was a ‘combat Marine’ who had served in combat during the Korean War. This claim was a lie, typical of others told by Robertson. However, this was one lie that he could not get away with — there were Marines who knew Robertson and who knew the truth.

    The following is a chapter from the book The Taking of Hill 610 And Other Essays on Friendship, by Paul N. McCloskey, Jr. (1992; Eaglet Books, 580 Mountain Home Road, Woodside, CA 94062). In this chapter, the author lays out the facts of Robertson’s Marine Corps service. Pat Robertson’s father was a US senator who intervened with the Marine Corps to have his son assigned to duty in the rear, away from combat. Robertson served in Korea as the ‘liquor officer’ — responsible for keeping the officers’ clubs supplied with liquor. There he also was known to drink himself and to frequent prostitutes — he even feared that he had contracted gonorrhea.”
    http://www.schlatter.org/liquor_officer.htm


  18. EasyRider says:

    With an open border to the South and he does not think that a act of war like this will not hurt us.

    Is Pat truely insane?


  19. Gary Kleppe says:

    I reread the Pat Robertson post and I think I’ve just figured out who Neddy is…

    Bwahahahahahahaa….


  20. bushit says:

    This supposed man of God, now wants to assassinate the head of another country. What a complete and total prick. Maybe someone should do Pat in and relieve us from his terminal stupidity. I wonder if Robertson knows that it’s ILLEGAL to do such a thing. But in both Bush world and Robertson world, it wouldn’t make a hell of a lot of difference now would it!!!o


  21. Not A Traitor says:

    Gosh, I guess Jesus Christ has sent Pat another message…?

    I often wondered if Jesus would lie to the people.

    Hail to the Freak!

    Frankie
    Long Beach, CA


  22. Bobby says:

    Robertson’s idea is illegal? Nah, the man speaks to God. D’ya think someone would put out a hit on Robertson?
    What POS!
    To think this man once ran for president — could have been a real-life Dr. Strangelove.


  23. Hank says:

    Sounds like reasonable option to me. Think I will offer my services.

    —G. L. Liddy


  24. Ohioan says:

    It’s official: Televengelist Pat Robertson is OFFICIALLY a oily neocon:

    “[Assassination] is a whole lot cheaper than starting a war … and I don’t think any OIL SHIPMENTS will stop.”


  25. Terrytheturtle says:

    #19 And I’m going to ask him next time he emerges from the swamp…


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    from Assassination to Prayer

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  27. Bandera Negra says:

    The spanish language is full of words with many meanings depending on the context in which they are said. What Chavez said was a manace: Bush, no sea usted tan pendejo! There is difficulty in translating this to the english, since pendejo, in Venezuela, generally means “retarded”, “slow witted”. When said in this context it would mean something like: Man: Give me all your money and I will make sure you are treated well at the hotel. Other: What? Do you consider me a moron? See? There is a difference in that the attitude in this case was menacing. That is why everybody has translated the phrase as asshole, which would convey the meaning better.

    In the case of Saddam, he went to the Bagdad airport and drived the Mercedes Benz himself to pick up Chavez. The photos are there. maybe he didn`t call him brother, but he treated him like a lady. Or, like my friend says: Saddams does not let just anybody board with him in his Mercedes Benz!


  28. mtndew2000 says:

    So if Robertson can threaten, on television, foreign heads-of-state, as a private citizen, can we get started on which Arab head-of-state we want to see dead next? Or is that illegal for the rest of us?


  29. BW says:

    I have read and listened to some of the comments to PR’s comment. I need to familarize myself more with the “Chavez” situation but…I, too, thought “we” used “this” method if needed. I remember thinking, before the war started, “why couldn’t the CIA just go in and take out bin Laden and whomever, and save the lives of the young men that will have to die a war. Now when I read some of these comments, I wonder if I’ve had evil thoughts! I do consider myself of at least, average common sense” while acknowledging that there are many situations going on that I probably have more opinions on than facts (like many) I have about come to the conclusion that a huge part of our society are just “Drama Queens” so to speak. Oh my goodness, Pat Robertson said this, Hilary Clinton stands by her man, Bill Clinton did this, and on and on and on we go…do you think this is because we, as a whole, are so stupid that the media has to sink to our level or is it vice versa?


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  31. glenn soderstrom says:

    The Jews rejected Jesus. They would not enter into the Spiritual promissed land,they still want a human king,Just like befor. If we were back in Old Testament times it would be a rightous thing to kill a king giving away the land, but were not. We are in a Spiritual relm. Christ was a contract, when the nails were pounded into him we entered into this Spiritual contract. Under the old law he birthed himself in a literal woman, now he births himself Spiritualy in us and we fight the good fight against our own flesh every day. It’s not about literal land, when Jesus said befor Pilot, if my people were of this land then would they fight. I know that all Jews now days are not like the Old Testament Jews and some have gotten alot worse like the ones praying for the death of the priministers. As far as Pat Robinson gose he ain’t got a clue.


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