Pat Comes Clean

Okay, last Pat Robertson post. He's managed to prove me wrong, sort of. He's apologized for calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, saying he spoke "out of frustration that we should accomodate the man who thinks the U.S. is out to kill him." This is something along the lines of the "I'm sorry you're so sensitive" non-apology that I predicted, but still he did apologize, so he has to get at least that much credit. True, he did try to claim earlier in the day that he had been "misrepresented by the AP", and that he was really suggesting that the U.S. kidnapp Chavez or some such thing (even though if you read his exact quote he is clearly talking about assassination--lying is also a sin, Pat), and yes he still refers to Chavez as a "dictator" despite the fact that whether you like his authoritarian tendancies or not (Chavez's authoritarian tendancies, not Robertson's), Chavez is the democratically elected and immensely popular President of Venezuela. Our own President can't even claim that, and no one's talking about "taking him out" on national television. But okay, Pat apologized. So I'll leave him alone and let him go back to praying for the removal of Supreme Court Justices and hoping that someone nukes the State Department.