Quick, Someone Get Him Back On His Medication

Oy. Do I have to spend time dealing with Pat Robertson's latest idiocy? The latest absurdity from Robertson makes me wonder if he should be dubbed the right wing's Al Sharpton...

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson called on Monday for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, calling him a "terrific danger" to the United States.

Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition of America and a former presidential candidate, said on "The 700 Club" it was the United States' duty to stop Chavez from making Venezuela a "launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism."

Chavez has emerged as one of the most outspoken critics of President Bush, accusing the United States of conspiring to topple his government and possibly backing plots to assassinate him. U.S. officials have called the accusations ridiculous.

"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."

As I noted to someone else, I'd love to see Hugo Chavez stuck in a room with a pack of rabid pit bulls and a bloody steak in his back pocket, or failing that, getting the same treatment Zed was awaiting at the end of the Gimp scene in Pulp Fiction. But having a major religious leader advocating the state-sponsored assissination of a foreign head of state... that's asinine, no matter how you slice it.