World famous right-wing religious lunatic “Rev.†Pat Robertson is spinning so hard to lie about what he said a couple of days ago that I’m amazed he doesn’t fall over from dizziness. He’s claiming that “take him out†has many possible interpretations. Unfortunately for him, the mass media are following up his denials with videotape, audiotape, and/or transcripts of what he actually said about the advisability of assassination as a political tool. No one but the truest of his True Believers can deny the evidence of their eyes and ears, but Pat keeps trying! We can expect the other fundamentalist mullas to rally around him as he once again agrees with Islamic hate-mongers that violence is justified to attain political, cultural, and economic goals.
Because as we all know, “Thou shalt not kill†only applies to friends, fetuses, and our own conservative political leaders, because “we’re The Good Guys™.†Yes, folks, it’s fundamentalist lunacy at it’s finest! Don’t hold your breath waiting for moderate or liberal Christian leaders to denounce Robertson—most of them haven’t got the guts, since the fundies have lots of weapons, military and economic.
Naturally, the rest of the world, not just Venezuala, considers it entirely likely that the USA would assassinate a foreign leader—we’ve done it before, not to mention staging coups to overthrow other countries’ (usually democratic) governments, going to war based on packs of lies (usually with the assistance of craven or corrupt media), etc.
So, let’s see what’s happening now… we have a nationally known fundamentalist religious leader calling for the murder of a foreign head of state. Isn’t that usually called “terrorism†when the Muslim or Jewish fundamentalists do it? Naturally, we can expect Our Glorious Leader to denounce Robertson immediately… momentarily… any day now… Ooops! Distancing themselves from domestic terrorists would offend the religious lunatics and gun nuts that the Republicans depend upon to win re-election (or election rigging) in 2005 and 2006.
Like I always say, “Fundamentalism + Weapons = Terrorism,†whether at home or abroad.