I am so sorry that it took so long to get back to you..
They have left some of her retort out in the (CROSSTALK)
I can not remember the details very well and will try to find audio.
Here is snip from the transcript.
SUTTON: No, it doesn‘t.
As a matter of fact, to talk about killing somebody because it‘s the best thing to do—what I read was that he said it‘s better to take him out—quote, unquote—than to go to war against him, his country, for $200 billion. And it looked like he was framing it in an economic position.
But, from my perspective, I mean, what he said was wrong. I think it was unwise. And, if he had to do it over again, I would hope that he would be more careful in what he said.
AMY GOODMAN, HOST, “DEMOCRACY NOW”: Reverend Sutton, I‘m very surprised you‘re simply saying you think it‘s unwise and not saying that it‘s immoral, that it‘s evil, that, to call for the assassination of anyone, let alone a world leader, is absolutely, unequivocally wrong.
But I don‘t think it‘s just you falling short here. I think what‘s most significant is that President Bush this week, who has spoken out publicly a number of times this week, while he is busy demonizing peace activists, has not said one word about Pat Robertson and this call.
And you have Defense of Secretary Donald Rumsfeld saying, he‘s a private citizen, yet not unequivocally condemning this call for the assassination of a foreign leader.
SUTTON: You know, I don‘t know Hugo Chavez, but I do know that, by reputation, he is a very ruthless man.
And the question that I would ask is this. Is this the same kind of scenario that unfolded in Nazi Germany? Is it a situation where you have a ruthless dictator who is going to bring the world into war? I don‘t know...
GOODMAN: Reverend Sutton, are you suggesting that Hugo Chavez killed six million Jews?
SUTTON: No, I didn‘t suggest that at all, and you know I didn‘t suggest that at all.
What I did suggest was that it needs to be considered that he could be a very ruthless man. And Pat Robertson—I‘m not going to justify what pat said. I don‘t think it was right. I don‘t think it was wise. But, at the same time, I suspect that our State Department has probably looked over those kinds of scenarios.
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GOODMAN: Well, it‘s interesting you raise our State Department, because Robertson has also talked about nuking the State Department. In 2003, he said...
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GOODMAN: I‘m just going to quote him. He said, what we need is for somebody to place a small nuke at Foggy Bottom, which is where, of course, the State Department is.
This is not Pat Robertson just once advocating violence. He‘s done it over and over again. You might be right this was off the cuff.
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