The Daily Show, 23/08/2005

Let me say this, as a way of starting: I’m a lucky man.
I’m lucky enough to get to have a television program where I can say a lot of what I think and feel on this program.
But - to be honest with you: I can’t just say anything. Anything that just pops in my head. For example.. eeh.. f*ck.
They probably bleeped that. Even if I was to say: f***********ck - they probably bleeped that whole thing.
‘Cause I’m a hired gun; I do not own this station, I did not found this station. When you own a station, when you found a station, you can say whatever pops in your head. Any of the crazy stuff most of us would only shout into a pillow.
I’m referring, of course, to a gentleman named Pat Robertson and his comments yesterday about Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, on the 700 Club, Christian Broadcasting Network, which he owns:

“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, it’s a whole lot cheaper than starting a war…

It’s cheaper than a war.
Pat Robertson is advocating a policy of assassination... for the savings.
That’s the kind of thing you can say when you own your own network; it’s basically the equivalent of f***********ck

Now obviously Robertson is a man of God an man of the cloth, He recognises there are ramifications for what he’s advocating, spiritual and moral - and: he has thought them through:

“It’s a whole lot cheaper than starting a war … and I don’t think any oil shipments will stop.”

Which is really the only consideration when you’re talking about murder: whether or not the oil shipments will stop.
I believe it’s in the bible: I believe the commandment is: Thou shalt not kill, if any of the oil would stop.
If it’s not going to stop, kill away.