{"id":736,"date":"2005-08-24T13:55:08","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T20:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=736"},"modified":"2005-08-24T13:55:08","modified_gmt":"2005-08-24T20:55:08","slug":"whoops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/24\/whoops\/","title":{"rendered":"So exactly which part of &#8220;Thou shalt not kill.&#8221; didn&#8217;t you get, Pat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/08\/24\/AR2005082401470_pf.html\">AP<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>The Associated Press<br \/>\nWednesday, August 24, 2005; 4:02 PM<\/p>\n<p>VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. &#8212; Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson insisted Wednesday that he did not call for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, despite comments broadcast on his program two days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t say &#8216;assassination,'&#8221; Robertson said Wednesday on his Christian Broadcast Network show &#8220;The 700 Club&#8221; about remarks reported by The Associated Press and other media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I said our special forces should &#8216;take him out.&#8217; &#8216;Take him out&#8217; could be a number of things including kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are a number of ways of taking out a dictator from power besides killing him. I was misinterpreted by the AP, but that happens all the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But a video of Monday&#8217;s telecast shows that Robertson&#8217;s exact words were: &#8220;You know, I don&#8217;t know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we&#8217;re trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It&#8217;s a whole lot cheaper than starting a war, and I don&#8217;t think any oil shipments will stop.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP: The Associated Press Wednesday, August 24, 2005; 4:02 PM VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. &#8212; Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson insisted Wednesday that he did not call for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, despite comments broadcast on his program two days earlier. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t say &#8216;assassination,&#8217;&#8221; Robertson said Wednesday on his Christian Broadcast Network show &#8220;The 700 Club&#8221; about remarks reported by The Associated Press and other media outlets. &#8220;I said our special forces should &#8216;take him out.&#8217; &#8216;Take him&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50,213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-domestic-affairs","category-wtf","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4uks-whoops","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}