Rightwing Whackjob Pat Robertson Calls for Murder of Democratically Elected Leader; Rightwing Blogosphere Remains Silent
Remember when the Right was all in a tizzy about Ward Churchill, the leftwing whackjob who's audience consists of three drunks and one dog.
Well, time and time again, righties with much greater audiences and greater media access make horrendous comments without the same degree of criticism from the right as they heaped on the obscure Churchill.
The latest is Pat Robertson who calls for the assasination of Hugo Chavez. The fact that Chavez was elected twice - the second time in a landslide in an internationally monitored election - also seems to escape Robertson who calls Chavez a "strong-arm dictator."
You see - to guys like Robertson - it is not about democracy; it is about fealty to conservative Christian America.
So how is the right responding; here's a rundown of some of the righty blogs that ran Ward Churchill pieces and what they have to say about Robertson's latest:
Michelle Malkin --- nothing
Powerline --- nothing
Wizbang --- nothing
Say Anything --- nothing
Rightwingsparkle --- nothing
Hate speech by a man with a cable channel and an audience estimated at a million pales in comparison to that of someone no one even heard of until the right decided to falsely spin him as representative of the left.
posted by Macswain at
10:51 AM
3 Comments:
powerful post Macswain. Why not put this post on those rightwing sites, and see what they say.
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Anonymous, at 12:00 PM
Robertson characterizes Chavez, who won by a landslide an election that was the focus of intensive international scrutiny, a "dictator."
Pat, what do you call the "winner" of the 2004 U.S. election who squeaked out a "win" only after well-documented shennanigans in Ohio and elsewhere?
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Anonymous, at 12:43 PM
Macswain:
Are the "war on terror" folks going to go after Pat? I don't THINK so.....
Today's NYT:
"Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel said Venezuela was studying its legal options, adding that how Washington responds to Robertson's comments would put its anti-terrorism policy to the test.
'The ball is in the U.S. court, after this criminal statement by a citizen of that country,'' Rangel told reporters. ''It's huge hypocrisy to maintain this discourse against terrorism and at the same time, in the heart of that country, there are entirely terrorist statements like those.'
The U.S. government distanced itself from Robertson's comments.
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, appearing at a Pentagon news conference, said when asked: ''Our department doesn't do that kind of thing. It's against the law. He's a private citizen. Private citizens say all kinds of things all the time.''
By this logic, aren't Zarquawi and Bin Ladin also "private citizens."?
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Anonymous, at 1:19 PM
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