"If you think Scripture is telling you what you want to hear, take a long, hard second look."
- The Ancient Mariner
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Pat Robertson suggests we assassinate corrupt Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
This guy does so much off-the-cuff jabbering on this TV show, it's no wonder he's constantly saying weird stuff like this. Every few months you can count on Pat to say something crazy.
Seriously, though, the article has some interesting info about Venezuela's political crisis and touches on the ongoing rumors that the CIA was behind the failed coup a couple of years back.
I wish Robertson had made this statement back then, so I could put it in my novel. My story is set largely in that troubled nation, and the attempted coup, with the events leading up to it and the tumultuous environment giving rise to it and the international intrigue underneath it, figures into the plot.
Robertson even mentions covert operatives already in Venezuela planning to take the President out. I've got a few of those guys in my novel, too.
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Comments on "Assassination . . . In Jesus' Name, Of Course":
3. Daniel
- 08/23/2005 4:32 am CDT
I read this story right after I read your post on Dobson.
Looks like our evangelical "leaders" are two for two in the foot in mouth game.
4. Shrode
- 08/23/2005 11:12 am CDT
You know, it's one thing for a few guys chatting to say something... It's another to say it on national television.
I wonder what media outcry there would be if someone like O'Reilly or Rush had said the same thing?
7. denise
- 08/23/2005 8:00 pm CDT
Hasn't Pat Robertson suggested this about another world leader? Castro, maybe. Anyway, my mom said she was watching the 700 club the other day when Pat and his female co-host were answering viewer mail. A man had written in saying he'd been friends with this girl for a year or two and now that he was 21 and she was 14 was it okay for them to start dating? According to my mom, Pat didn't seem to have a problem with that and thought it was "cute." His co-host was, naturally, a bit horrified and declared if it was her 14-year-old daughter she would not allow her to date any man 21 years old.
I think ol' Pat needs to retire. Or they should at least put a muzzle on him.
8. Jared
- 08/24/2005 2:59 am CDT
Tabby, no I don't have any ties to the country. Part of the book is set in the Amazon, so that left me with either Venezuela or Brazil. I knew I wanted my missionary to begin his journey in a city where Spanish is the primary language, so that ruled out Brazil.
It wasn't until after I decided on Venezuela, and the capital of Caracas specifically, that I began my research and discovered all this Chavez/oil crisis/protests/coup stuff was going on in the same year I had set the story.
You can still do it. fictional freedom, you know. I thought the same thing about Robertson when I heard of his statement this morning.