Sunday, February 05, 2006

More Dobson's World: Who would Jesus assassinate?

From Robertson again calls for Chavez's assassination: "Not now, but one day" Media Matters for America 02/03/06:

During the February 2 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, Christian Coalition founder and 700 Club host Pat Robertson reiterated his call for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

When co-host Alan Colmes asked Robertson, "[I]f he [Chavez] were assassinated, the world would be a safer place?" Robertson answered, "I think South America would." When Colmes later pressed Robertson, asking, "Do you want him [Chavez] taken out?" Robertson retorted, "Not now, but one day, one day, one day." Earlier, Colmes had asked, "Should Chavez be assassinated?" Robertson explained that "one day," Chavez will "be aiming nuclear weapons; and what's coming across the Gulf [of Mexico] isn't going to be [Hurricane] Katrina, it's going to be his nukes." Co-host Sean Hannity agreed that "the world would be better off without him where he [Chavez] is, because he is a danger to the United States."
Well, I guess we can't accuse Brother Pat of being too "literalist" in his reading of the Scriptures. All that "Thou shalt not kill" crap doesn't seem to be too hard for him to interpret as, "We should kill democratically-elected leaders that annoy us".

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