It’s so rare that a mainstream media outlet actually calls out bullshit, but here I am, reading this on CNN.com:
“I didn’t say ‘assassination.’ I said our special forces should ‘take him out.’ And ‘take him out’ can be a number of things, including kidnapping; there are a number of ways to take out a dictator from power besides killing him. I was misinterpreted by the AP [Associated Press], but that happens all the time,” Robertson said on “The 700 Club” program [Wednesday, 24 August 2005].
Followed immediately by:
“If he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think we really ought to go ahead and do it,” said Robertson on Monday’s [22 August 2005] program. “It’s a whole lot cheaper than starting a war.”
The story also includes video.
The question in my mind is, who is crazier? Pat Robertson or Hugo Chavez?