Tinfoil Requested - - Robertson was 'asked to do this'...... but why?

[cthrumatrix]

Robertson is a religious man (right or wrong) and usually stays on

this subject. The timing seems a bit suspicious. Oil prices are high

as they are.


Did somebody make him bring up the Venezuela Leader? Think -- how else

would the religious right "know of Chavez" and establish an opinion.


Why offend the US's second largest Oil Supplier?



OR is the US "uncomfortable" that Chavez has established "free radio"

for the first time in South America that is not controlled by North

America.


The "lack of revolt" by the Admin/State Dept. tells me this was cooked.

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Since Robertson is a major BushCo insider

I don't think that he would do anything like this unless it was to help BushCo in some weird way. Keep in mind this isn't the first time Robertson has done this sort of thing. Seems he usually times his outrages whenever BushCo needs a distraction.

[cthrumatrix]

2. read this --- maybe it has more to do with "drugs"

As the war against terror goes up a cog, so does the war against drugs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4147546.stm

Chavez revokes US agent immunity

Chavez accused the DEA of spying on his government Caracas has withdrawn the diplomatic immunity of US anti-drugs officials working in Venezuela.
It follows a move by the US State Department to revoke the visas of six Venezuelan officials in Washington.

Both countries are locked in a row after President Hugo Chavez accused the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) of spying on his government.

Washington denies the charge, accusing Caracas of failing to co-operate in the fight against drug-trafficking.

´Strike back´

Venezuelan Vice-President Jose Vicente Rangel said his country would apply "strict reciprocity" in the allocation of visas to US officials.

"For every attack, there will be a reaction, for every strike, a strike back...and the revoking of visas will mean reciprocal action," he said.

"We are no longer going to accept civilian employees of the being assigned to the US embassy, because that gives them the benefit of immunity," he said.

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[Hubert Flottz]

3. KKKarl!

To draw the public attention away from protesters and Bush's calamity in Iraq. Also to draw the heat off of KKKarl's problem with treasongate...

[cthrumatrix]

4. enveryone should read "Confessions of an Econominc Hitmen" this is what

the US does to go after a target...whatever it takes.

Robertson is just a tool.....

[wake.up.america]

5. Well, he did it for a reason. What was the reason? You can bet...

he thought he was was helping Bush out. How about a little distraction?

[terrya]

6. I was thinking this myself last night.

And I thought the whole idea was sheer "Twilight Zone" stuff.

But then again, with this regime in power, anything is possible.

[liberal N proud]

7. No doubt that KKKarl was involved

But what is the motive?
It could also be retaliation for Chavez cutting off the DEA.


Edit for spelling

[leftchick]

8. I can't believe more folks here haven't figured this out

It struck me as I watched the 24 hour coverage yesterday on Robertson there was almost ZERO on Iraq. Yesterday in Iraq was just awful, many soldiers and Iraqis dead but who would know?

No tinfoil required for this one. :(

[C_U_L8R]

12. KKKarl The Strategist At Work

There was no way they could combat Cindy when she owned the news cycle...
but they can do everything they can to ensure she doesn't come back.
They're simply filling the media void with garbage... as they often do.
BUT
What's glaringly obvious and encouraging.. is that
KKKarl and MonkeyBoy are calling in their highest political favors.
They must be totally desparate.
Let's keep doing what we're doing..... even more!!!

Not only should Cindy speak for all us..
but we should return the favor.
Every town should have a thousand Cindys.

As for the Whack-Job TV Preacher...
he's already toast .. forget about em.

[Hubert Flottz]

18. KKKarl is in a slump...

His tricks are getting to predictable and Cindy put a serious jinx on Shrub. KKKarl could never have won Bush's job for Bush, had he not had help both times on the vote tabulation. Bush is a loser any way you slice it! I don't think Bush has made a single move that KKKarl didn't ok, including Iraq. I think politics, is one of the BIG reasons we're in Iraq. Look at all the people who had to die, because KKKarl wanted a War pResident.

Bushco has the best propaganda team that money can buy, but the wheels are starting to fall off, IMHO. Desperados do desperate things, so I always expect the worst out of these gangsters, when things don't go to suit them. Don't put your Duct Tape up yet!

[Junkdrawer]

9. I think Pat was told to drum up anti-Chavez support, but...

poor Pat gets on a roll and, praise Jesus, doesn't know when to stop.

[LaurenG]

10. Robertson is delusional (warning rant)

He truly is. He really believes that God talks to him, which at one point may have been true, who knows of such personal things. However, when he starts making comments about other people and says God told him these things, you need to find out if God also told the person he's talking about. As far as I know the Christian God does not gossip or spread rumors. Humans do. In fact Robertson has proven that he serves the dark side by even mentioning an assassination of another soul. He is so far off the teachings of Christ that I've wondered when it will be revealed that he is legally insane. One cannot serve two masters without short changing one of them. He has ONE agenda and it's not that of Christ. His ego has so overblown itself that his own spirit can't get in there long enough to set him straight. Thus when the ego takes over you have a dangerous, criminally minded individual leading the masses to their turn at the Kool aid. How did he get control of so many on such wicked teachings? :shrug:

[cthrumatrix]

11. that is why he was used and will be excused.... this was a "plan" IMHO

and it has to do with drugs or oil...both mean $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[LaurenG]

14. and a share in another diamond mine right? nt

[sniffa]

13. just a distraction

to take up aLL the non white-girL-abducted space.

[durablend]

15. Oil companies doing, of course...

"Can't have none of those terr-ists threatening to take our profits away"

[icymist]

16. This administration wants dirt on Venezuela.

They've been trying to accuse Chavez of causeing 'instability'
of Latin America. They have nothing to back up these claims so now they're going to fire Robertson's guns at them. Check out this August 18 Daily Press Briefing:

QUESTION: And just one more. When you were answering Elise and you're talking about the general policy and the attitude towards Venezuela, you said that the United States has a positive agenda. How do the latest comments from Rumsfeld on his trip to Latin America fit in with that? We went round the houses here a lot when a letter had been written to a congresswoman saying that Venezuela is being unhelpful in Bolivia, but as we all found the State Department and the United States Government is just not prepared to back that up with any kind of evidence. And yet, Rumsfeld again, repeated the same accusation that Venezuela is unhelpful in Bolivia. What's positive about this bandying around accusations that you're not prepared to back up?


MR. MCCORMACK: Well, I think that I don't have anything to add to Secretary Rumsfeld's comments. I think they speak for themselves. I think that there's been a lot of discussion about Venezuela's role in the hemisphere, and not just from the United States but from other countries in the hemisphere as well. And I think that given those comments, it certainly is an issue that bears discussion.


http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2005/51230.htm

[JHB]

17. You obviously haven't been watching Robertson long enough...

He actually makes this sort of commentary very frequently. This time he managed to do it in an especially blatant way, and blogs and video clips kept it from disappearing the way they used to.

[DemocracyInaction]

19. Bloomberg News answered that for you this morning, my dear

They specifically mentioned the Robertson's remarks and how that overnight contributed to "oil instability" AGAIN and, thus, oil prices have risen AGAIN. And now you know why the holy man speaketh.............the man is human garbage....

[Bassic]

20. Maybe they needed the opportunity

to look good by saying they don't do that kind of thing (cough)

:eyes: :crazy: :yoiks:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

21. This is a way of trying to get righwing talking heads talk about how

"evil" Chavez is. ie photos of him with Castro. I heard not one person interviewed on tv dispute that Chavez was a dictator (as Robertson declared), not correcting that by saying that he was duly elected, and quite popular at that.

The attempted coup didn't work, and now they are setting him up........