Robertson’s fatwa
Acton Institute
by Robert A. Sirico
08/31/05
Pat Robertson speaks his mind on his television show The 700 Club, often with an unpolished spontaneity that is missing from network news. Viewers evidently like this, and assume that he speaks from the heart. But every now and then, this unvarnished approach causes an explosion that reveals more than we really wanted to know about the heart of evangelical politics in this country. Thus did a firestorm of outrage greet Robertson’s casual but very sincere call for the assassination of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. Chavez, a sworn enemy of President Bush, often proclaims that U.S. officials are plotting to kill him...
http://tinyurl.com/aq985
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Robert A. Sirico
08/31/05
Pat Robertson speaks his mind on his television show The 700 Club, often with an unpolished spontaneity that is missing from network news. Viewers evidently like this, and assume that he speaks from the heart. But every now and then, this unvarnished approach causes an explosion that reveals more than we really wanted to know about the heart of evangelical politics in this country. Thus did a firestorm of outrage greet Robertson’s casual but very sincere call for the assassination of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. Chavez, a sworn enemy of President Bush, often proclaims that U.S. officials are plotting to kill him...
http://tinyurl.com/aq985
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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