{"id":6526,"date":"2006-02-03T12:46:37","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T17:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6526"},"modified":"2006-02-03T12:46:37","modified_gmt":"2006-02-03T17:46:37","slug":"bushs-friends-continue-to-unwittingly-help-hugo-chavez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/bushs-friends-continue-to-unwittingly-help-hugo-chavez\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush’s friends continue to unwittingly help Hugo Chavez"},"content":{"rendered":"

In August, TV preacher Pat Robertson became an international laughing stock (again) for announcing on his Christian evangelism program that he’d like to see Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez assassinated<\/a>. Robertson eventually offered a half-hearted apology<\/a> and the story went away.<\/p>\n

Last night, Robertson returned to the issue, and incomprehensively argued that Chavez still<\/i> needs to be assassinated<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When co-host Alan Colmes asked Robertson, “[I]f he [Chavez] were assassinated, the world would be a safer place?” Robertson answered, “I think South America would.” When Colmes later pressed Robertson, asking, “Do you want him [Chavez] taken out?” Robertson retorted, “Not now, but one day, one day, one day.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But wait; there’s more. In case Robertson hadn’t done enough to help boost Chavez’s political standing in Venezuela, Rummy wants to help<\/a> too.<\/p>\n

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld likened Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Adolf Hitler, reflecting continuing tension in relations between the United States and the Latin American government. […]<\/p>\n

“I mean, we’ve got Chavez in Venezuela with a lot of oil money,” Rumsfeld added. “He’s a person who was elected legally — just as Adolf Hitler was elected legally — and then consolidated power and now is, of course, working closely with Fidel Castro and [Bolivia’s Evo Morales] and others.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If Chavez were writing the script himself, it wouldn’t turn out any differently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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