Is the economy in turnoil after being destroyed by Chavez?
Is he killing and torturing dissenters?
Did he really have flame throwers turned on soldiers who presented a petition to him?
Is he helping the cocaine smugglers and left wing guerillas in Columbia?
Is he working to overthrow the governments of pro US nations?

All of these claims were on Robertson this AM and presented by a faux organization called Human RIghts Foundation (not Human RIghts Watch)
THe Venezuela newsgroups are either giddy with prosperity or angry at Hugo and I cant really trust MSNBC, etc. since they are repeating the administration line.

So…where can I get an unvarnished analysis of Venezuela? Someone is lying to us. THere has to be someone out there who can give information on Chavez and Robertson that is not prejudiced.

I think, or hope, at least, that most Americans will finally see Robertson the dangerous crackpot that he is. He is showing signs of losing his mind. Maybe it is the power he feels he still wields among the reality challenged.

Deep down, however, I still believe one sure and undenible fact… Pat Robertson IS the anti-Christ and Jerry Falwell his acolyte.

I believe it’s the former.

Maybe that’s a skill that’s best left to Robert Tilton.
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/televangelists/robert-tilton/

Does Robertson just sit down in front of the camera and say whatever comes to mind? Or is there a process of planning, fact-finding, and scripting?

If it’s the former, I’m surprised he says as few outrageous things as he does.

If it’s the latter, why doesn’t somebody stop him?

“It was an incredibly stupid statement and has no reflection on reality,” said Coleman, the chairman of the Senate’s Foreign Relations subcommittee on the western hemisphere. “I met with President Chavez on my last visit a couple of months ago and he related that concern to me, about how the U.S. was out to assassinate him. I told him not to lose any sleep about it.”

Called stupid by Norm Coleman?

Ouch.

Probably because Chavez is a Communist.

On a serious note, I haven’t found a single conservative blogger or commentator who isn’t flabbergasted by Robertson’s insane suggestion. (The only exception might be LaShawn Barber, but as of this writing she hasn’t posted anything yet on the subject. Ditto for Ann Coulter.)

So let’s be fair about this and avoid smearing the entire conservative movement because of the comments of one over-the-hill and demented TV preacher.