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Audacity of Truth
Spinsational:
"We were so busy just getting stuff done and dealing with the immediate crises that were in front of us that I think we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people about what their core values are and why we have to make sure those institutions are matching up with those values."
-Obama, explaining recent Democrat losses, 1/20/10
Velvet Lair- The sexiness of winning the battle of good versus evil January 26, 2010
- Ever wonder why? January 12, 2010
- The decision to bench Peyton Manning: Right or wrong? December 28, 2009
- Is my dad turning into a metrosexual? November 24, 2009
- My “Things To Do For Christmas” list November 23, 2009
Pat Robertson
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised at this, the latest in a string of wacky quotes from Pat, but this is going just a bit over the edge:
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s vice president accused religious broadcaster Pat Robertson on Tuesday of making ”terrorist statements” by suggesting that American agents assassinate President Hugo Chavez.
Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel said Venezuela was studying its legal options, adding that how Washington responds to Robertson’s comments would put its anti-terrorism policy to the test.
”The ball is in the U.S. court, after this criminal statement by a citizen of that country,” Rangel told reporters. ”It’s huge hypocrisy to maintain this discourse against terrorism and at the same time, in the heart of that country, there are entirely terrorist statements like those.”
The State Department distanced itself from Robertson’s comments.
”We do not share his view, and his comments are inappropriate,” spokesman Sean McCormack said.
Is it time for Pat to perhaps take a long vacation out of the public eye?
Related: “Pat Robertson” is the number one search term at Technorati today. The blogosphere is abuzz!
More: Jeff Goldstein thinks the MSM will try to use Pat’s comments to paint the religious right/social conservatives with broad brushes. I think he’s right.
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It’s long past time for Pat to take that vacation.
Indeed!
Oh, don’t you know it! I’m comparing this situation to the time that Eason Jordan accused our soldiers in Iraq of deliberately targeting journalists. The media completely ignored it until it couldn’t be ignored anymore. But let a high-profile televangelist make a stupid comment, and it’s front-page news for days.
I wish Pat would stop saying stupid stuff. But I wish also that the media would stop hanging on his pronouncements like they’re somehow more important than, say, the progress that’s being made in Iraq, or the improving state of the economy. Now there’s some news I haven’t heard about from the MSM.
Yeah, the MSM isn’t too keen on reporting any straight news that might actually make the admin look good.
- Actually the fact is that in every instance I can think of, in the case of every country that has enjoyed world leadership and some sort of dominating position, its exactly what they would do. History shows that those that hold power don’t tend to **** around, but use it in the nost effective, and most often brutal, fashion. Its only because of unprecidented beneficent and charitable policies that America uses when dealing with their advisaries, that this becomes a PC issue. Dumb to say publicly. check. Impolitic. Check. Closer to the truth than fumbling, impident diplomacy, check. the Liberals will be frothing at the mouth over this, posing great outrage, when in fact its the perfect opportunity to dissemble once again. It doesn’t matter that for the most part we don’t do the kinds of things Robertson suggests. If you’re an America hater its enough that any one public figure says something stupid. Let the wingnut braying commence…..
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Funny everyone goes ape over this statement. But hasn’t a thing to say about the liberals fantasies (expressed in book form and online) about assassinating Presedent Bush.
Commies sacrosanct…democratically elected leader expendable?
Liberals are morons…period.
I concur with Robertson. I don’t even think it’s a hard call. What restrains most Americans from agreeing with him is the notion that he’s entitled to extra consideration either out of “due process” or because he’s a head of state, however illegitimate. Neither contention holds water under close examination.
Rick: plenty of people had something to say over the Randi Rhodes show “joke” “skit” or whatever it was that implied assassinating the President. The media didn’t seem to take much notice though (surprise!)
Francis: I don’t really think it’s right for a Christian man (especially one of influence) to go around advocating killing people. We’ll have to agree to disagree on this one, amigo.