Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Watch your waistline, President Chavez
This from a minister who reportedly loves iceberg lettuce:
Doctrine & diet shakes are Robertson's stocks-in-trade (his business is about power & money). He knows exactly & absolutely what we're supposed to believe, so it's surprising he didn't back up his statement with a few quotes from Leviticus regarding punishment & proper nutrition. When an American Protestant mullah, even one over the edge of senility, calls for the execution of someone outside the country, he's unlikely to find a soul in his flabby flock courageous & fit enough to take up the challenge. The distance is short from that to issuing a fatwa against a sinful fellow politician or activist or competing preacher or weight loss guru who displeases the buff Reverend. Robertson may not "know about this doctrine of assassination," but he's in favor of it all the same. That's the dangerous message he sent to his large, dedicated TV cult-following. Rumsfeld's response: ''Our department doesn't do that kind of thing. It's against the law. [wink] He's a private citizen. Private citizens say all kinds of things all the time. [wink wink]."
"You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it,'' Robertson said. ''It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... and I don't think any oil shipments will stop.'' Pat Robertson, advocating the death of the President of Venezuela.
Doctrine & diet shakes are Robertson's stocks-in-trade (his business is about power & money). He knows exactly & absolutely what we're supposed to believe, so it's surprising he didn't back up his statement with a few quotes from Leviticus regarding punishment & proper nutrition. When an American Protestant mullah, even one over the edge of senility, calls for the execution of someone outside the country, he's unlikely to find a soul in his flabby flock courageous & fit enough to take up the challenge. The distance is short from that to issuing a fatwa against a sinful fellow politician or activist or competing preacher or weight loss guru who displeases the buff Reverend. Robertson may not "know about this doctrine of assassination," but he's in favor of it all the same. That's the dangerous message he sent to his large, dedicated TV cult-following. Rumsfeld's response: ''Our department doesn't do that kind of thing. It's against the law. [wink] He's a private citizen. Private citizens say all kinds of things all the time. [wink wink]."
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"A less prepossessing source for nicely sautéed crab cakes, Hatteras chowder, fairly light frying of oysters and shrimp and the most carefully broiled fresh flounder in the area is Croakers Neighborhood Grill, basically a roadhouse with a nautical décor. Memorable though the simple food can be, it was no match for the sight of the television evangelist Pat Robertson, a habitué, digging in to a pile of iceberg lettuce, the salad green that is beyond redemption."
Mimi Sheraton, New York Times, 8/14/05
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Mimi Sheraton, New York Times, 8/14/05
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