Pat Robertson "apologizes" - kindasorta

[eileen_d]

I saw this while trolling FR - the actual file is a PDF on the CBN web site: http://www.cbn.com/700club/RobertsonStateDept.pdf

But of course FR cut and pasted the whole thing:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1000420/posts

Here is how Pat "apologizes:"

I was trying to characterize the rather negative tone in (Joel Mowbray's) book in a laughing fashion.

Oh, ha ha ha, I'm promoting domestic terrorism! What a gas!

And at the very end:

I want to correct my remarks. Joel did not say “Nuke the State Department,” so we’ve changed. We’re not going to nuke it, we’re going to gut it.

But earlier in the discussion, Pat sez:
What does that mean, to gut it? I think I know from a fishing experience, but what does that mean to you?

So the message to the State Department seems to have changed from "We want to destroy you" to... "We still want to destroy you."

:shrug: