Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Pat Robertson Wants Hugo Chavez Assassinated

Media Matters: Pat Robertson, host of Christian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club and founder of the Christian Coalition of America, called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Why? Well, Robertson claims this: "There was a popular coup that overthrew him [Chavez]. Within about 48 hrs that coup was broken; Chavez was back in power, but we had a chance to move in." Popular coup? No, more like pissed off members of the corporate media (IAPA- InterAmerican Press Assoc) conspired w/some pissed off military members to overthrow a democratically elected Chavez who got over 80% of the vote. Pat spews on: "He has destroyed the Venezuelan economy, and he's going to make that a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent." Well, if you call using the wealth obtained from oil sales to help the poor, then sure, Chavez has destroyed the economy. Now, I don't know everything, but I certainly know that the nation of Venezuela is NOT Muslim. It is almost exclusively Catholic, and a small percentage of the population practices a mixture of Catholicism and S. American Indian beliefs based upon a fertility goddess called Maria Lionza. NOT ISLAM. But would any of the 700 Club's viewers take the time to actually find out the truth? Naw, it is easier to have a liar like Robertson spoon feed your stupidity to you. Please watch the Media Matters clip of Pat in action, b/c his Holy Call for Chavez's assassination is unbelievable: "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. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war... We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability." So very Christian, no?
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