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If ever a televangelist had a Charlie Brown moment, Pat Robertson just made the mother of all "goat" statements.
To assassinate or not, that is the question. "Get the hell out of here, assassinate? Really" No joke. When in doubt, assassinate major world leaders. It is clean...well once the crime scene is sanitized...and it takes care of "problems" rather effectively. Hmmm, gee, now THAT smacks of Gambinoism, does it not? I always suspected those wacky televangelists were running a racket. Bet that comment just earned me some time out "down there", eh?
I KNEW it would not take long for some dork to say something so monumentally idiotic I laughed until I cried. And, of course, my politically-oriented colleague raced to the internet today to see whether Ol' Pat has been whacked yet...er, assassinated.
Shoot, this is better than twenty episodes of "The Sopranos."
The sage and calmly-delivered comment at issue: "If he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war, and I don't think any oil shipments will stop." The "he" in this scenario is Hugo Chavez, the President of Venezuela. Mr. Chavez, Robertson alleges, is a a dangerous enemy controlling "our" oil...forget the fact it is located in, uh...Venezuela. Such irrelevant details, but I would argue they are rather significant nonetheless.
Some things really do make one sit down and say, "Dang, I don't get it." And I do not understand why, at every opportunity, someone of wealth and influence - though not necessarily taste - has to open their frogmouths and say something that REALLY makes all Americans look REALLY bad.
Needless to say, I highly doubt anyone with any sense or intellect will agree with Mr. Robertson's idiotic proposal. And I would hope he loses a lot of support from his "followers" who, no doubt, have made him the wealthy freak of the universe he has always been. Dang. I have to sit down and ponder the ramifications of this latest fiasco.
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| Reviewed by Lee Garrett |
8/30/2005 |
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| I think Robertson was thinking in a If-I-were-president mode, not as a tele-evangilist. There are scenerios where a CIA bullet would prevent untold future suffering in the world. There's a long line of murderers in power that the world can do without. If someone had turned Hitler's, Stallin's, or Mussalini's head into red froth before they got started, the world would be a better place today. If Clinton had let the Cia kill Bin Laudin, 9-11 might never have happened. That being said, If I were president, confronted with such temptation, I'd hope I'd remember that the means can't be justified by the end. It is the Terrorists that believe that a Holy War justifies any means, when the truth is--it's holy means that sanctify the war. We are supposed to be the good guys. |
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| Reviewed by S. Reisner |
8/24/2005 |
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| Ugh. It's this kind of fanaticism that breeds terrorism. |
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| Reviewed by Mr. Ed |
8/24/2005 |
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You better keep sitting then, Lisa - he also says that feminism makes women practice witchcraft. Maybe you can just cast an evil spell over him!
PS I think he covets all the world's oil, even Venezuela's, who is Latin America's largest oil producer. |
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