maybe Pat Robertson is the "canary in the mineshaft"...

[MsTryska]

he's said soemthing insane - but now the media has the opportunity to "take a close look at Hugo Chavez".


Maybe Pat is just the starting bell in the run-up to war or destabilization in Venezuela.


They are setting the stage by telling us how he's a leftist - he's been hanging out with iran, he's friends with Fidel, and he has 15% of our Oil.....

[Montauk6]

1. What's next?

Chavez is the most dangerous, ruthless despot since Hitler?

We must act now or Venezuela may invade us? With their just-discovered weapons of mass destruction?

[MsTryska]

4. you, my friend, are on the right track.....

We don't want the next attack to be in the shape of a mushroom cloud you know.

[MisterP]

5. heck, if Ray-Gun the Stupid could try to threaten us with the Nicaraguan

boogeyman--they'll cross the Rio Grande!--who knows WHAT they'll do.
And with the LeMays in charge, the next Cuban Missile Crisis--real or fabricated (there's a cold wind coming from the Northwoods)--will go out with a real bang of a show-stopper.

[Montauk6]

6. WHEW!!! It's a good thing we stamped out that menace in Grenada!

[terrya]

2. One thing....it's not "our oil"

But the links to Castro have been mentioned quite often about Chavez.

[MsTryska]

3. I know....

i mean "our oil" as sarcasm....

[Montauk6]

7. Notice how communal the wingers get when it comes to oil?

[MsTryska]

10. *lol* well communal does imply sharing.....

perhaps possessive is a better word?

[Montauk6]

11. Well, anyone with oil is supposed to SHARE it with us,

otherwise they become a menace to society. Forced hippieism???

[MsTryska]

16. Baha! that's exactly what it is.....

We only believe in redistribution of wealth when it involves YOUR oil. :)

[goclark]

8. I agree. he is their sentinel on this one

It has all the makings of KKKarl.

This was planned, they knew Robertson was going to say something wild. They told him what to say.

For some reason it reminds me of the way that * held that little fire side chat on tv with Jenna calling the dog and her foot bouncing.

They were speaking to the base and telling them the fix was in.


Robertson is talking in code. He is a terrorist!

[MsTryska]

9. *lol* well he's certainly a radical cleric....nt

nt

[1956]

12. He's sick!

And it certainly seems planned-Karl what an asshole!

[meow2u3]

13. If Mullah Robertson is the canary in the mineshaft

then it's high time we sic the cats on him! And the normal, sane, moderate and/or liberal Christians (including Catholics) are the cats in that same shaft!

[Binka]

14. Hugo Has This Shit Down

He is smarter than them. End of story. What the fuck happens happens. Hugo isn't sweating this shit. Ever caught a liar in a lie? Ever hammered home your POV to a lying shit dust bag? Oh boy they just crumble. BUSH you are next.

[MsTryska]

18. yeah - that's my feeling too.....

Hugo ain't no chump, and he's got their number.


he's maneuvered himself into an interesting position tho.


not only will he quite willingly cut off oil - getting buddy buddy with iran adds an interesting layer as well. Wonder if he buddied up with China as well?

[me b zola]

15. This is exactly what I thought when I first heard his statements

And the way that everything is playing out gives credibility to this thought.

The US backed coup was unsuccessful. Chavez is not being silent about the US involvement in that attempted coup. Furthermore, Chavez is poking the imperialist neo-thugs in the eye reminding them of the oil that they could not steal from the Venezuelan people.

Most Americans have never heard of Chavez.

Enter Robertson.

The "news" outlets are talking about Chavez, hitting all of the reich wing talking points.

Next, you can bet that all of the hate radio talk show hosts will be spewing all of the talking points on Chavez---educating the gop-bots, don't ya know.

[1932]

17. US media has always been hostile to Chavez. I think they're in CYA mode.

I think Robertson's statement wasn't supposed to be met with such a reaction, but now that it has, the media is trying to figure out a way to mitigate the damage and probably exit from this mistake at least with a lot of people thinking that Chavez isn't a good guy (if not that he should be assassinated or that Roberston is a man of god).

[libertypirate]

19. Maybe Maybe Maybe they all know the fit is about to hit the shan

and will do anything to put distance between themselves and the little president who couldn't.

Maybe I am full of shit, anyway they can only win if they divide our nation into parties.