This Week's Idiot Wind Blowing

From Media Matters


During the February 2 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, Christian Coalition founder and 700 Club host Pat Robertson reiterated his call for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

When co-host Alan Colmes asked Robertson, "[I]f he [Chavez] were assassinated, the world would be a safer place?" Robertson answered, "I think South America would." When Colmes later pressed Robertson, asking, "Do you want him [Chavez] taken out?" Robertson retorted, "Not now, but one day, one day, one day." Earlier, Colmes had asked, "Should Chavez be assassinated?" Robertson explained that "one day," Chavez will "be aiming nuclear weapons; and what's coming across the Gulf [of Mexico] isn't going to be [Hurricane] Katrina, it's going to be his nukes." Co-host Sean Hannity agreed that "the world would be better off without him where he [Chavez] is, because he is a danger to the United States."

(Fox News along with other cable news outlets continue to present this dangerous theocratic crook as an expert in foreign policy and even worse Christian theology. Every accusation Fox News allowed Hannity and Robertson to throw at Chavez is false. Robertson is obviously so threatened by Venezuela's nationalized Oil, that he is willing to propagate war. Why? Robertson owns several diamond mines in African countries. It is not in Robertson's interest for these third world nations to follow Chavez's lead. For more on Robertson's business practices click Here )