'I meant take Chavez out to Cracker Barrell for breakfast after mass, not kill him

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Posted: 8/24/2005 10:35:59 AM EDT

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative U.S. evangelist Pat Robertson, who called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, said on Wednesday he was misinterpreted and there were a number of ways to "take him out" including kidnapping.

"I said our special forces could take him out. Take him out could be a number of things including kidnapping," Robertson said on his "The 700 Club" television program.

"There are a number of ways of taking out a dictator from power besides killing him. I was misinterpreted," Robertson added.

Robertson, the founder of the Christian Coalition and a presidential candidate in 1988, said on Monday of Chavez, one of Bush's most vocal critics: "If he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it."

"We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability." He made the comments during his "The 700 Club" television program.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday dismissed Robertson's remarks, but the White House remained silent despite calls for repudiation from Venezuela and religious leaders including the Rev. Jesse Jackson. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack called "without fact and baseless" any ideas of hostile action against Chavez or Venezuela.

The leftist Chavez has often accused the United States of plotting his overthrow or assassination. Alongside Cuban President Fidel Castro in Havana on Sunday, Chavez scoffed at the idea that he and Castro were destabilizing troublemakers.

Chavez survived a short-lived coup in 2002 that he says was backed by the United States. Washington denies involvement.

Venezuelan officials said Robertson's remarks, while those of a private citizen, took on more significance given his ties to President George W. Bush's Christian-right supporters.

"Mr Robertson has been one of this president's staunchest allies. His statement demands the strongest condemnation by the White House," Venezuela's ambassador to the United States Bernardo Alvarez said

Posted: 8/24/2005 10:42:13 AM EDT

[#1]

what a maroon!

Posted: 8/24/2005 10:43:55 AM EDT

[#2]

and you wonder why the "Religious Right" is ridiculed.

Posted: 8/24/2005 10:45:51 AM EDT

[#3]

You know he is right, but you are blinded by his religious beliefs. US should assasinate castro too.

Posted: 8/24/2005 10:46:02 AM EDT

[#4]

Three cheers for the Communists home and abroad!

Yay!

Posted: 8/24/2005 10:46:41 AM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
and you wonder why the "Religious Right" is ridiculed.

Is Robertson still friendly with Bush? I know they have had some ups and downs. He might've gotten a WTF! phone call from the White House.

Posted: 8/24/2005 10:48:11 AM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
Three cheers for the Communists home and abroad!

Yay!

Hip-Hip!!

Hooray!!

How more people are pissed off about Pat Robertson's words as opposed to Chavez's ACTIONS, I will never know.

But then again, I never expect to understand whiny liberal idiots.

Posted: 8/24/2005 10:48:56 AM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
You know he is right, but you are blinded by his religious beliefs. US should assasinate castro too.

Not blinded by anything, Chavez is an evil little shit, but it was stupid comment for Robertson to make.

I can't see a big motivation to bump off Castro at this late date. Would have been nice to have gotten rid of him decades ago though. Unfortunate that a generation of cubans were subjected to living under communism.

Posted: 8/24/2005 10:54:41 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Quoted:
You know he is right, but you are blinded by his religious beliefs. US should assasinate castro too.

Not blinded by anything, Chavez is an evil little shit, but it was stupid comment for Robertson to make.

I can't see a big motivation to bump off Castro at this late date. Would have been nice to have gotten rid of him decades ago though. Unfortunate that a generation of cubans were subjected to living under communism.

+1 Killing Castro now would only make him a martyr in the eyes of communists. Let him die of old age...shouldn't be long now. After his death, the world will see how evil he was and how he raped and robbed the cuban people blind.

Posted: 8/24/2005 10:55:05 AM EDT

[#9]

With sincerest apologies to Dory:

"Just keep digging...

Just keep digging....

Just keep digging, digging, digging.....

What do we do? We DIIIIGGGG....."

The reason why the "Religious Right" gets ridiculed is because the assholes doing the ridiculing have conveniently defined anyone who is a Christian or a Conservative as being as idiotic as Robertson and company.

Posted: 8/24/2005 10:55:41 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
US should assasinate castro too.

I volunteer. I'll even bring my own weapons.

Posted: 8/24/2005 10:57:46 AM EDT

[#11]

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! Cracker Barrel!

Where's my hot brown!

Posted: 8/24/2005 10:58:44 AM EDT

[#12]

Back peddle third gear on!

Posted: 8/24/2005 10:59:18 AM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
Quoted:
US should assasinate castro too.

I volunteer. I'll even bring my own weapons.

Forget Castro.He's a "viejo cagalitroso"

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:02:44 AM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
With sincerest apologies to Dory:

"Just keep digging...

Just keep digging....

Just keep digging, digging, digging.....

What do we do? We DIIIIGGGG....."

The reason why the "Religious Right" gets ridiculed is because the assholes doing the ridiculing have conveniently defined anyone who is a Christian or a Conservative as being as idiotic as Robertson and company.

I do find it irritating that people who don't know or care a thing about Christians leap all over this statement like it came from the "King of the Religious People". For heavens sake. It's some guy with a television show, not the spokesperson for all the nations faithful. I'm not even Christian and I got pissed at people who haven't seen the inside of a church in their life running around with the "aren't these religious freaks so loving!" shit.

It was a non-event hyped by a hostile media.

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:03:21 AM EDT

[#15]

I see the Communists have friends here at ARFCOM, too.

Vive la Revoluccion!

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:05:43 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
US should assasinate castro too.

I volunteer. I'll even bring my own weapons.

Forget Castro.He's a "viejo cagalitroso"

Yes he is....

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:05:44 AM EDT

[#17]

I say we kill him instead.

Sgat1r5

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:06:54 AM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:

Venezuelan officials said Robertson's remarks, while those of a private citizen, took on more significance given his ties to President George W. Bush's Christian-right supporters.

"Mr Robertson has been one of this president's staunchest allies. His statement demands the strongest condemnation by the White House," Venezuela's ambassador to the United States Bernardo Alvarez said

How about you suck your 'condemnation' out of my cock?

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:07:35 AM EDT

[#19]

People are just whining because it was a "religious leader" that made the comment.

It coulda been anyone else but Roberts who said this and we would have never heard about it.

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:08:00 AM EDT

[#20]

Robertson is an idiot not for what he said, but for retracting it, or saying he "didn't mean it" the way it was portrayed. What a weasel.

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:08:47 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
and you wonder why the "Religious Right" is ridiculed.

Because the media takes ONE sermon out of MILLIONS SPOKEN ON THAT DAY and reports it as "Crazy Christians across the USA"" on the local news across the nation?

Sgatr15

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:12:00 AM EDT

[#22]

Everybody take a side:

You either agree with Chavez...or you agree with Robertson's opinion that it would be better for the US if Chavez was "taken out."

Which is it? A Communist who hates America...or the American who hates a Communist enemy?

Choose a side.

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:13:57 AM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
Choose a side.

Not just a commie, but a killer, a thug, and a terrorist supporter.

Sgtar15

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:17:10 AM EDT

[#24]

that's not the problem.

Robertson was pretty clear on what he said originally, and I doubt anyone actually took it as what he later claimed. Meaning he got scared, and then claimed he didn't mean what he originally said.

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:22:04 AM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
Everybody take a side:

You either agree with Chavez...or you agree with Robertson's opinion that it would be better for the US if Chavez was "taken out."

Which is it? A Communist who hates America...or the American who hates a Communist enemy?

Choose a side.

Niether. I don't HAVE to take the side of Pat Robertson to be opposed to Hugo Chavez. I'd have to believe that military conflict with him were inevitable AND that a simple assination attempt would bring the desired response. If you must stand behind every pronouncement of Pat because he worships as you do that is your problem.

As to my opposition to an assasination if it averts a war.... no way, cap his ass and don't look back. I'm not saying Pat had it wrong on that front. I don't agree that now is the time or that it is nessisary in this case.

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:24:32 AM EDT

[#26]

Funny how the same posters who justified taking out Saddam Hussien are the same people villifying Robertson for suggesting the same with Chavez.

I guess everything goes better with Communism.

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:25:43 AM EDT

[#27]

Pat Robertson is a Con man pure and simple. Anyone who listens to him had better have their head checked.

After you get your head checked check your bank account too.

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:27:20 AM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
If you must stand behind every pronouncement of Pat because he worships as you do that is your problem.

Actually, I had forgotten all about Pat Robertson until this news story broke.

Personally, I agree with his opinion. No, more, no less.

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:28:35 AM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
Everybody take a side:

You either agree with Chavez...or you agree with Robertson's opinion that it would be better for the US if Chavez was "taken out."

Which is it? A Communist who hates America...or the American who hates a Communist enemy?

Choose a side.

Only a sith deals in absolutes.

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:29:11 AM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
Pat Robertson is a Con man pure and simple. Anyone who listens to him had better have their head checked.

After you get your head checked check your bank account too.

I guess this means you think America is better off with Chavez in power?

Vive la Revoluccion!

Down with America! Death to Bush!

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:30:35 AM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Everybody take a side:

Which is it? A Communist who hates America...or the American who hates a Communist enemy?

Choose a side.

Only a sith deals in absolutes.

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:30:43 AM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
Only a sith deals in absolutes.

LOL.

Only a Communist sides with other Communists.

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:35:53 AM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
Only a sith deals in absolutes.

"Only..."?

But...... isn't THAT an absolute statement?

HE'S A SITH!!

BURN HIM! BURN HIM!!!!!!!

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:36:03 AM EDT

[#34]

With the masterful backpeddle like Robertson's latest, I am surprised that he doesn't have his JD.

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:40:06 AM EDT

[#35]

"MauserMark.....rise my young apprentice, you will henceforth be called, Darth Balls."

except it would be in spanglish.

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:41:51 AM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
People are just whining because it was a "religious leader" that made the comment.

It coulda been anyone else but Roberts who said this and we would have never heard about it.

'Ol Pat should have posted it on ARFCOM with a screen name like R700. Most everyone here would have thought him a big Remington fan and given a +1 to the idea.

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:45:38 AM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Three cheers for the Communists home and abroad!

Yay!

Hip-Hip!!

Hooray!!

How more people are pissed off about Pat Robertson's words as opposed to Chavez's ACTIONS, I will never know.

But then again, I never expect to understand whiny liberal idiots.

It would be easier if you clearly defined them. they are "whiny liberal Christian-hating idiots."

That's why they are so upset.

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:45:43 AM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
Pat Robertson is a Con man pure and simple. Anyone who listens to him had better have their head checked.

After you get your head checked check your bank account too.

DING DING DING we have a WINNER!

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:47:01 AM EDT

[#39]

As a general rule of thumb, I am not a fan of Robertson. I think he would have been a disaster as a president.

That being said, I can't completely disagree with his statements.

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:50:32 AM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:
...I can't completely disagree with his statements.

Therein lies the rub: People who distrust Christianity are discounting what Robertson said because of his faith.

In doing so, they are joining sides with the leftist media, the Democrats, the Communists, and everybody else who hates America.

Vive la Revoluccion!

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:51:59 AM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:
Quoted:
...I can't completely disagree with his statements.

Therein lies the rub: People who distrust Christianity are discounting what Robertson said because of his faith.

In doing so, they are joining sides with the leftist media, the Democrats, the Communists, and everybody else who hates America.

Vive la Revoluccion!

And, ain't it a shame.

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:53:59 AM EDT

[#42]

Contrary to popular, non-Christian opinion, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Benny Hinn do not represent the whole of Christianity in America.

Far, far from it.

Posted: 8/24/2005 11:59:05 AM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:
It would be easier if you clearly defined them. they are "whiny liberal Christian-hating idiots."

That's why they are so upset.

Indeed, Christian hating is an art form in some places.

Even on ARFCOM at times.

Posted: 8/24/2005 12:01:58 PM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:
Quoted:
It would be easier if you clearly defined them. they are "whiny liberal Christian-hating idiots."

That's why they are so upset.

Indeed, Christian hating is an art form in some places.

Even on ARFCOM at times.

what's considered christian hating? not agreeing with what one christian says?

definately, the dark side on you are.

Posted: 8/24/2005 12:01:59 PM EDT

[#45]

Posted: 8/24/2005 12:02:09 PM EDT

[#46]

He just said what a lot of us were thinking anyway.

Posted: 8/24/2005 12:03:32 PM EDT

[#47]

3:07 CST

cnn.com:

BREAKING NEWS > Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson apologizes for calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. More soon.

I can here his associates in the 700 club now, "sir we may lose a lot of donations for your next lexus if you don't retract what you said!"

Posted: 8/24/2005 12:03:49 PM EDT

[#48]

Quoted:
what's considered christian hating? not agreeing with what one christian says?

No.

I would consider more people expending more time and energy on bashing Pat Robertson than on Chavez to be Christian hating.

definately, the dark side on you are.

Whatever.

Posted: 8/24/2005 12:08:23 PM EDT

[#49]

Quoted:
Quoted:
what's considered christian hating? not agreeing with what one christian says?

No.

I would consider more people expending more time and energy on bashing Pat Robertson than on Chavez to be Christian hating.

BREAKING NEWS

Even a christian can be an asshat, doesn't mean calling out a christian on their comments is christian hating. Just like calling out a Jewish asshat, Muslim asshat, etc doesn't equal to hating their religion. Grow some thicker skin...

EPOCH

Posted: 8/24/2005 12:09:22 PM EDT

[#50]

Onward Christian Soldier....

Somebody get Robertson a ticket to Venezuela.

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