Pull the other one

[yendi]

Pat Robertson, on Chavez: "I said our special forces should 'take him out.' And 'take him out' can be a number of things."

In related news, Chavez and the US Special Forces were spotted dining at Spago on Robertson's advice.

Comments

[dindin.livejournal.com]

If you weren't already married...

[yendi]

Heh. If I had a nickel for every time I've heard that, I'd have myself an extra pack of vending machine Cheez-its.

[snowflake-star.livejournal.com]

How about someone just assassinate Pat Robertson?

[crystalsage.livejournal.com]

Include Falwell in that proposition. A two-for-one sale.

[gladstone.livejournal.com]

It is not okay to assassinate someone just because you disagree with him.

[stevietee.livejournal.com]

Robertson: "If he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think we really ought to go ahead and do it... and by 'do it' I mean I endorse Nike sneakers!"

[celticfeministw.livejournal.com]

Ohmyfuckinggod.

That was ... both infuriating and completely absurd. Sweet jaysus on rye toast.

[crystalrowan.livejournal.com]

*snort*

[cscottd.livejournal.com]

Okay... even if he actually had said 'take him out' (which he didn't¹), it would still be the kind of dodgy literalism that really gets under my skin.

It's like that whole "I didn't actually lie" thing, where someone goes to a great deal of trouble to tell a series of carefully chosen semi-truths in order to intentionally mislead someone else, without coming right out and making a wholly untrue statement.

What's the point? It's silly, at best, and at worst, it's even more deceptive than just telling a fib.

Back to Robertson though...

If it turns out the the Religious Right is somehow, well, right religiously, and they actually end up in some kind of Heaven and they meet the person they claim to be following, I imagine he's likely to be pretty ticked off at some of the things they did in his name.

Sorry, I seem to have gotten a bit of ramble in my rant there.

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¹ I saw a video clip from the show, and what he said was: "If he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war." Those were his actual words, from his actual mouth... unless he's claiming that it was CGI or something...

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

...and he then goes on to say, "We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability." He actually stresses the words "take him out".

Yendi linked to the video clip. You need to watch *all* of it.

And actually, you know, I never have understood why sending two huge armies of innocents to slaughter each other on behalf the people who actually have a problem with each other is supposed to be better or more moral than said people just sending a few very skillful assassins after each other. Robertson's argument is *if* you have an enemy who needs dealing with by lethal means, then better to do it by assassination rather than traditional warfare. Now, whether Chavez actually *is* an enemy who needs dealing with by lethal means, I am not qualified to judge. But Robertson makes it quite clear *he* thinks Chavez is such an enemy.

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

D'oh! Sorry, yendi actually liked to the text report, which in turn links to the video clip.

[merrick42.livejournal.com]

In related news, Chavez and the US Special Forces were spotted dining at Spago on Robertson's advice.

*scratches my head* Did the US Special Forces hire a Jhereg?

[yendi]

If he's good, we'll never know.

[merrick42.livejournal.com]

But, I'm sure their wine will be fantastic.

[nishar.livejournal.com]

Only a complete idiot puts his foot even deeper into his mouth by trying to apoloigize. Trust good old Pat Robertson to really shine when it comes to looking like an idiot.