Dunno. Maybe he got lucky and popped off while safely inside one of those “free speech zones” progressive academics are so very keen on…?
(Which, good thing for him, too. Because otherwise it would off to the hoosgow with the old Godbothering fascist. After all, Chavez is a minority—which elevates what Robertson said from merely stupid to the far more sinister hate speech…)
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h/t Allah
Why Isn’t This Fucker in Jail?
Because this is the United States of America, not the United Loonybin of the Angry Left. Other than that, I’m stumped.
FREE PAT!
could it be…BECAUSE OF THE HYPOCRISY?
/love that phrase. you the man now, dog
Yeah, what the hell? It isn’t like he has tenure or something.
Lock him up!!!!
THOUGHTCRIME!!!
Oh. My. God. If something Pat Robertson says makes you upset then you officially have no sense of humor. Any normal person’s reaction should be to snicker at what a whacky bastard he is.
Maybe he was inside the Cindy Sheehan Memorial Free Speech Zone down at Crawford. Where “Kill them! Kill them all! The bastards!” is not only allowed, but actually required.
I’m impressed: that’s a relatively sophisticated tactic. Change the narrative from “Pat Robinson is a schmuck” – which would have broad cross-spectrum support – to “Pat Robinson should be locked up” – which would not.
Moe
PS: The alternative is to believe that Roxanne’s never read the First Amendment to the Constitution. But, just in case:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Uh, because if stupidity were a crime then the California correctional system would have to take over Hollywood. Hey it would be just like “Escape from L.A.”, except no leftist actor would ever answer to the name Snake.
Pat is impolitic, for saying out loud and on TV what every sensible person says privately, among friends.
I note, however, that when George Stephanopolous said pretty much the exact same thing (regarding a different dictator), there was little outrage.
Because we desperately need guys like Pat (and Rush) to make the rest of us wingnuts look moderate. I call it the “Moore Effect,” only at the other end of the political spectrum.
Despite or maybe because I’m a devout Christian, I always considered tv preachers to be more entertainers than “pastors”. So when Pat Robertson or any of the other “just send money and I’ll talk to Jesus for you” crowd says something outrageous, I just say. “Sean Penn’s buddy said that? So what?”
Lew, for pure pastorial entertainment, look no further than the farting preacher.
When they say the same thing about Bush, nobody seems to give a flying…
SaaM:
OK, that link was uncalled for. Everyone at work now thinks I’m insane because I was literally crying while laughing my ass off at that. But since that’s the kind of humor that makes me laugh so hard, they already thought I was a little off-kilter…
Good old Robert Jiltem, I mean Robert Tilton.
TW: “choice,” as in “that certainly was choice” SAAM.
God almighty, that is funny, Robb.