FOX Viewers comments on the Pat / Hugo ordeal

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Did a search for Pat Robertson on the FOX News site and this is what I found (I have only included some of the nasty ones and fortunately there were quite a few that thought Pat was a nutjob):

"Robertson just laid down his cards and gave his opinion on how to deal with a tyrant. he is showing me exactly who he is and how he feels. I have total respect for a man like that. Chavez is garbage and it is time to take out the trash before it smells up the place." — Steve (Portland, OR)

"Pat Robertson speaks the truth. Chavez is a danger to the US and others. I just wish that our leaders had the intestinal fortitude to follow his lead." — Devi (Hunter, NC)

"I can't believe these people who don't see the danger in Chavez. I can't believe people have a problem with Pat Robertson saying what he did. Besides, that's what God's going to do on Judgment Day, Chavez will be gone in a heartbeat." — Murray (Comfort, TX)

"Pat Robertson deserves a medal for saying what we all know and to cowardly to say. Go PAT! God Bless You! I don't think I've seen a bunch of political crybabies like we have now. Lord help us!!" — Sharon

"Yes, indeed. I agree 110% with the televangelist's statement. It was refreshing to see and hear a well-known figure to tell the truth regarding Hugo Chavez whose alliance with Cuba's tyrant. Fidel Castro is a real threat to the future of the Americas. Everyday Castro receives a great deal of Venezuela’s oil thanks to Chavez's generosity due to his platonic love affair with Castro's damned revolution." — Mercedes (Royal Palm Beach, FL)

(This is my personal favourite)
"Yes, I agree with Robertson. Chavez is an evil, ruthless dictator. He constantly blasts and threatens the U.S. and others. If people only knew details about what he has done and is doing, they would feel guilty letting him, and people of the like, continue to waste oxygen. It’s the same thing with Saddam." — Jason (Jacksonville, FL)

"Yes! Pat Robertson was not only within his rights to speak out the way he did but he was TOTALLY CORRECT in so stating. When we pulled Hussein out of his rat hole we should have shot him in the head and been done with it. Being politically correct gets OUR PEOPLE killed." — Sandy (Bamberg, SC)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166513,00.html

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1. Oh, ahm prooooud to be an Amur'kan, where at least ah know ahm freeeee...

Christ. Whadda country.

What specifically is the RW telling these people about Chavez? Is it just that Castro is his goombah? Aside from the 80-year old Cuban exiles in Miami, I didn't think anyone in America GAVE a shit about Castro anymore.

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3. Didn't you know? Chavez is a ruthless dictator who's seeking nuclear

weapons and wants to destabilize the region. He's a threat to us and his neighbors. Never mind that a huge majority of the Venezualan people keep electing him: they're not voting responsibly.

Oh, and he also doubled the Venezualan government's cut of the oil revenues, from 15 to 30%, to pay for food and housing for the poor. Dirty commie.

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2. I agree with Sharon: "Lord, help us!"

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4. All supporters of Bush and no respect for democracy.

No surprise there.

They laud Pat for "Telling it like it is!", and what they're too stupid to realize is Pat has bestowed upon Chavez, magnitudes of support he could have never gotten on his own. The don't know that Pat already has a history of showing strong support for true "strong-armed" dicatators like Charles Taylor of Liberia.

Or that Pat has massively failed in the catagory of "tell it like it is", by his continuous lies about his own statement.

Not one of them with the sense to fathom the real life implications of endorsing the assassination of a democratically elected leader who has the far majority of support in his own country.... and that if that policy were carried out it would finish us in South America for decades to come.

Amazing, the ignorance of these people.