Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Should Robertson be investigated?

It looks like Chavez is pissed off, and with good reason. According to his deputy:
Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel said this was a "criminal statement" and the way Washington responded to the remarks would put its anti-terrorism policy to the test.

"It's huge hypocrisy to maintain this discourse against terrorism and at the same time, in the heart of that country there are entirely terrorist statements like those."

The vice-president also said the Organization of American States could take up the case, saying an inter-American anti-terrorism accord includes provisions against inciting others to kill.
I'd love to see some kind of investigation on this guy take place.

What would Jesus do?

2 comments:

Lone Ranger said...

I had never before realized that this thug, Chavez was such a holy man to liberals. I know that liberals tend to turn a blind eye to human rights violations when they are perpetrated by leftist governments, but I didn't know they worship the ground Chavez walks on. Personally, if I heard this South American strongman got whacked, my response would be, "Uh, ok. Wanna go for coffee?" And to be brutally honest, what would the history of the world be if someone had assassinated Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Hirohito, Ho Chi Minh, Mao, Pol Pot, Saddam, etc., while they were still only tinhorn dictators?

Who is Pat Robertson? He is a private citizen. He is an evangelist. He founded the Christian Coalition. He appears daily on the 700 Club TV show. He has no connection with the government, he has no influence, so far as I can tell, with top government officials. Therefore, under our basic right of free speech -- the very right liberals routinely use to defend sedition, treason and pornography -- he should be allowed to say anything he wants. Nope. Not when Pat Robertson says it. Louis Farrakhan can call for the extermination of Jews and you won't hear a whimper of protest from the left. But when Pat Robertson says something stupid and non-Christian (and he did), it works thousands of left-wing drama queens into a hysterical frenzy. I spent several hours cruising liberal blogs last night (shudder) and the bile, the vitriol, the almost demonic hatred being aimed at this man was totally out of proportion with anything he has ever said.

Why does the left hate Pat Robertson at such a reptilian level? Take a look at the 700 Club Website. Click on the CBN Outreach tab and take a look at the good this organization does. They feed the hungry, they clothe people, they bring medical help to those in need, they help millions of poverty-stricken people all over the world. They actually DO what liberals only TALK about doing. Now, take a look at that annoying Make Poverty History site. Can you find ANY projects for the poor there? You can wear white wristbands to help the impoverished. You can send a postcard to vote for trade justice. You can put wallpapers and screen savers on your computer to end suffering. GASP! Why, you can even wear skimpy briefs to make poverty history!!!! WHAT CRAP! Liberals should be donating their time and money to CBN, not throwing it at this phony baloney Make Poverty History scam!

Pat Robertson is helping MILLIONS, while Make Poverty History is substituting symbolism for substance and is no doubt paying their board members six-figure salaries. Liberals should LOVE Pat Robertson. But they don't.

The left hates Pat Robertson because he is a man of God and they hate God. The left hates Pat Robertson because he is a Christian and liberals hate Christians. If the devil engaged in politics, he'd no doubt be a.......hmmmm. HMMMM.

Massimo said...

Wow, Lone Ranger, so many points here, you're all over the place. Let's go in order.

Nobody worships the ground Chavez walks on, and I personally don't know him at all, but that's not the point. Robertson is a TV personality and calls himself a Christian. Now, I don't think Christ would call for anybody's death, do you? And imagine if it had been Oprah or Letterman who called for someone's assassination: how long before the right-wing smear-machine got in full gear?

You say Robertson has no connection or influence on the government. Excuse me, but where do you live exactly? Bush wouldn't even be in the White House (twice,) if it weren't for his religious-right supporters, which include Robertson.

Yes, dear, he does have both connection and influence on our current government (hopefully he won't on any future one, be it Democrat or Republican, since the last thing we need is for this wacko to have any power at all on the White House.)

Just as an aside, why would you put pornography in the list of negatives the Democrats supposedly defend, like treason (you mean the one perpetrated by Karl Rove, right?) or sedition? Are you against pornography? Personally, I'm not, I enjoy it plenty, but that's a topic for another discussion. I was just puzzled by the comparison there.

Should Robertson be allowed to say anything he wants? Of course not! It depends by what he's saying. And that goes for everybody. Yes, the Constitution defends free speech, which is great, and liberals are all for that, but free speech has limits, as you certainly know. The Supreme Court has a litmus test to decide whether an expression of free speech can be defended or not. It's based on whether the speech involves libel, obscenity, or inciting violence against others, which is precisely what Robertson did. Therefore, no, he can't say what he said. And that's why we liberals are all attacking him.

And it's not just us: as you by now know, he apologized for what he said (after having tried to deny he said it, which is really pathetic considering that he said it on national tv!!), which means that many powers-that-be on the right called him up to retreat what he said, or else.

And morally and ethically, and based on the fact that he proclaims himself to be righteous, no, he shouldn't have said it.

And let's be clear about this. If Senator Reid or President Clinton had said that, it would be wrong too.

And let's also be honest here, wouldn't the right be all over it if it had been said by a Democrat?

All that talk about the good that Robertson does for the poor... I'm sorry, but if your motives aren't pure, whatever you do is only a cover for your misdeeds. What would Jesus do? Call for the death of Judas? I think not.

And one final point. The left doesn't hate God. Plenty of people on the left are Christians and believe in God. They just don't wear it on their sleeves and don't let it seep into their politics.