Here's the Funny Part (final)

[WilliamPitt]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083005I.shtml

Here's the Funny Part
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Tuesday 30 August 2005

If the thunder don't get you
Then the lightning will ...

-- Robert Hunter

Try this madness on for size.

Here we have Pat Robertson, ostensibly a Christian, judging by the number of crosses he surrounds himself with, calling for the assassination of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. Parsing the gibberish that pours forth from this fraud of a holy man has been a parlor game in my home for a while now. My favorite remains the statement made by Robertson in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, when he said the attack was God's judgment on America for our tolerance of gays, feminists and the ACLU.

After you get past the immediate disgust that comes whenever you hear something so vile, you are left with the Robertson pretzel-logic. Think about it: If the attacks of 9/11 were the righteous judgment of the Lord, as the false priest told us, then the terrorists were acting on behalf of and to the purposes of God. In other words, they were doing holy and important work, and are therefore above reproach. Call off the War on Terra, folks, and let's bring the troops home. We're waging war on a bunch of dudes who were only seeking to follow Jesus' direct orders.

Yes, such is life in the la-la land of Pat Robertson. This newest one, the call to put a bag on Hugo Chavez, verges into equally bizarre territory. This televangelist is supposed to be a Christian leader, and the last I'd heard, Christ was the guy they called the Prince of Peace. I have this image of Robertson's version of Jesus, however, being an Aramaic rendering of the Max Fischer character from the movie "Rushmore," contemplating the murder of Chavez while walking around Nazareth muttering, "He just made my list of things to do today. I'm gonna pop a cap in his ass."

Some talking head on Fox News the other day coughed up the names and home address of two guys who live in La Habra, California. He released this information live over the network while claiming the two were tied to a man named Iyad Halal, whose group is allegedly connected to the London bombings. The two guys from La Habra, who of course have no terrorism ties whatsoever, now have police protection outside their home, because a whole mob of loyal Fox watchers have been accosting them, screaming profanities at them and spray-painting their house with the word "terrorist." But here's the funny part: Whoever tagged their house with that graffiti did great honor to the intellectual reputation of Fox viewers by spelling the word "terrist." Thus fell Lord Perth, and the earth did shake with that thunder.

...more...

[dogday]

1. Ye shall be decieved by many who claim

they are men of God. Do not be decieved.....

[FreedomAngel82]

7. And don't forget

you shall know them by the fruits of their labors.

[NV Whino]

2. NSMA

Said it well the other day: neanderfucks.

[wli]

3. Wasn't it Falwell that blamed 9/11 on gays? n/t

[WilliamPitt]

6. It was the both of them

[ghostsofgiants]

9. Yeah, it was on an episode of The 700 Club

Falwell: "What we saw on Tuesday, as terrible as it is, could be miniscule if, in fact, God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve."

Robertson: "Well, Jerry, that's my feeling. I think we've just seen the antechamber to terror, we haven't begun to see what they can do to the major population."

Falwell: "The ACLU has got to take a lot of blame for this. And I know I'll hear from them for this, but throwing God...successfully with the help of the federal court system...throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools, the abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked and when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad...I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who try to secularize America...I point the thing in their face and say you helped this happen."

Robertson: "I totally concur, and the problem is we've adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government, and so we're responsible as a free society for what the top people do, and the top people, of course, is the court system."

Falwell: "Pat, did you notice yesterday that the ACLU and all the Christ-haters, the People for the American Way, NOW, etc., were totally disregarded by the Democrats and the Republicans in both houses of Congress, as they went out on the steps and and called out to God in prayer and sang 'God bless America' and said, let the ACLU be hanged. In other words, when the nation is on its knees, the only normal and natural and spiritual thing to do is what we ought to be doing all the time, calling on God."

[Greeby]

4. THis part

The hurricane itself, at least, isn't George's fault, though one can imagine Karl Rove on the roof of the Crawford ranch summoning the storm like Saruman in order to change, at least for a little while, the subject

heh, good one :D

[liberal N proud]

5. Thanks

[WilliamPitt]

8. Welcome

:)

[DemReadingDU]

10. Thanks

always appreciate your fine articles

[tk2kewl]

11. this is the most inane Robertson comment to me...

Gay Day at Disney World would bring "terrorist bombs ... earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor."

[tk2kewl]

12. this is the most inane Robertson comment to me...

Gay Day at Disney World would bring "terrorist bombs ... earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor."

[Old Mouse]

13. Please understand

There is a shift happening in some American evangelical Christian communities. There is a denial or rejection of Christ the crucified first coming in favor of the second coming. To only worship the second coming is to reject the idea of mercy and compassion as Christian values, and instead focus on the concept of the wholesale slaughter of the wicked and unrighteous. With this change of mindset, murder of the unrighteous becomes just as holy as communion. This is the emotional metamorphosis that we need to understand.

You need to understand how this growing movement can justify violence as a Christian value without feeling hypocritical. The more we on the left react to this sort of mentality with ridicule, the more we strengthen their resolve.

[tk2kewl]

16. it's sick, but you're right

however, i only have a Robertsonesque solution to that way of thinking so i'm a bit lost as to how to combat it other than ridicule

[lvx35]

19. They're jews, but they can't admit it.

They love everything about the Bible but the new testament, and specifically the anti-materialist teachings of Christ...They are waiting for the coming of the TRUE messiah...They're essentially jews, yet they are untempered by the wisdom teachings of the jewish faith.

[Old Mouse]

20. They don't discount the new testament

it's that now that we're in the end times those rules no longer apply.

[hiley]

14. Excellent

thank you.

[Wind Dancer]

15. ACLU

It's amazing how these hypocrites attack the very groups they use.

"April 17, 2002: In a victory for the Rev. Jerry Falwell and the ACLU of Virginia, a federal judge strikes down a provision of the Virginia Constitution that bans religious organizations from incorporating."

http://www.aclu.org/ReligiousLiberty/ReligiousLiberty.cfm?ID=17598&c=38

[Just Me]

17. Why don't we just pull out a few paranoid schizophrenics,...

,...from the psychiatric ward and give them the kind of attention the CM gives to Falwell, Robertson and the rightie fundie gang? I'll bet our schizophrenics would sound more stable than the rightie fundies. I'm not kidding btw.

[The Doctor.]

18. Brilliant piece.

I will most certainly be using this where appropriate.

The bald comparison, that is.

[jarnocan]

21. Jessie J. helps clean up the mess...

And isn't it is wonderful that Jessie Jackson was able to arrange hurricane disastor relief assistance with Venezuela, even after the far right/reconstructionist Pat Robertson advocated assasination?
Sure it was Robertson that called for the murder-BUT the anti-Chavez murmuring is more neocon/BushInc./reconstructionist war drums.
He hasn't cooperated with the BushInc. cronies in the Oil business.

Quote:
"We place at the disposition of the people of the United States in the event of shortages -- we have drinking water, food, we can provide fuel," Chavez told reporters.
Chavez said fuel could be sent to the United States via a Citgo refinery that has not been affected by the hurricane. Citgo is owned by Venezuela's state-owned oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/2005082...il_050829235602