Imus: Pat Robertson ‘should be put to sleep.’

[laststeamtrain]

Imus: Pat Robertson ‘should be put to sleep.’

Yesterday, soon after the devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit much of Haiti, Rush Limbaugh took the opportunity to attack President Obama, saying the White House will “use this to burnish their…credibility with the black community — the both the light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country.” But televangelist Pat Robertson took it one step futher, saying the earthquake happened because Haitians “swore a pact with the devil.” Today on his Fox Business show, Don Imus went after Limbaugh. “One would think that you could just wait a few days – Rush – until you know you can run your fat mouth about it then,” he said. But Imus had some particularly harsh words for Robertson:

IMUS: You know, I’m not sure whether sometimes I’m ambivalent about whether I support the death penalty or not. I guess I do if I didn’t have to do it, but in his case, I’d pull the switch on him myself. I mean he should be put to sleep. How does that contribute anything? It’s insanity.

Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/01/14/imus-pat-robertson-sleep/

[fascisthunter]

1. wow

[MrSlayer]

2. Broken Clock theory.

Imus is generally an asshole but I have to agree with him here.

[Bozita]

3. Imus was the 1st on MSNBC to call Bush and Cheney "war criminals"

And he did it damned near every day.

[Mimosa]

4. RIGHT, Bozita!!!!

I never forgot that. *smile*

[FiveGoodMen]

5. I fully support that sentiment.

[roguevalley]

7. ha ha ha. that is such a funny statement. Don Imus, we agree. :)

[DCBob]

6. You gotta love Imus sometimes. He just says it like it is..

You gotta hate him sometimes too. He can be a real weasel. :)

[LaPera]

8. Doesn't Imus lean toward republicans? Robertson is a republican-Never listened to Imus

Always purposely avoid listening to Imus...from things I've read he seems to embrace the wars, anti-union and money ala republicans?

[Earth_First]

9. How many of the Rec's on this thread cried afoul when Robertson called for assasination on Chavez?

Shame on you.

[LaPera]

10. Excellent point - The same uneducated AP believing clowns who jump on anyone who is a socialist.

Because they are told to believe this way...kill socialist and hail right-wing dictators who improve corporate profits, fuck the poor & the workers in these countries....Just let the IMF & world Bank own them.....but kill Chavez cuz he's a elected peoples socialist.

As if capitalism is doing these same idiot uniformed workers who post justice.

[joeybee12]

11. I don't know...you put pets to sleep to end their suffering...

...if Pat is suffering, why would we want to end that?

[Fumesucker]

12. No, What would *really* hurt Robertson is to fucking totally ignore the psychpathic attention whore.

He should simply be dropped from the public awareness, shunned..

That's how you hurt that unspeakable waste of skin.