{"id":7737,"date":"2005-08-24T15:44:06","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T22:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/08\/24\/i-guess-pat-robertson-is-a-nice-guy-after-all.html"},"modified":"2005-08-24T15:44:06","modified_gmt":"2005-08-24T22:44:06","slug":"i_guess_pat_rob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/24\/i_guess_pat_rob.html","title":{"rendered":"I guess Pat Robertson is a nice guy after all"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pat Robertson insists that he was misquoted<\/a> when he called on the US to go ahead and assassinate Hugo Chavez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Earlier Wednesday, Robertson said he had been misquoted. “I didn’t say ‘assassination,'” he said on his Christian Broadcast Network show “The 700 Club” about the remarks, which were reported by The Associated Press and other media outlets. “I said our special forces should ‘take him out.’ ‘Take him out’ could be a number of things, including kidnapping. “There are a number of ways of taking out a dictator from power besides killing him. I was misinterpreted by the AP, but that happens all the time.”<\/p>\n

But wait … didn’t he actually use the word “assassination”? That doesn’t seem open to much “misinterpretation.” And, yes, it sure seems he did<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Well, Pat seems to agree now.<\/p>\n

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson apologized Wednesday for calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, saying he spoke in frustration earlier in the week. “Is it right to call for assassination? No, and I apologize for that statement,” he said. “I spoke in frustration that we should accommodate the man who thinks the U.S. is out to kill him.”<\/p>\n

Yeah. Because the only alternatives seem to be either accommodation or assassination. Or, I guess, invasion, which was what Pat was touting assassination as the cost-effective alternative to.<\/p>\n

Pat, here’s a clue — if your frustration level is so high that you can’t speak on your “mix of news and commentary, interviews, feature stories, and Christian ministry” show without urging the assassination of a foreign head of state, perhaps you’re in the wrong business. Or you need to spend some time in quiet contemplation. Emphasis on the word quiet<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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