Radio Havana Cuba: The Gospel According to Robertson

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Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:40:26 -0500

Radio Havana Cuba: The Gospel According to Robertson

 

 

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RADIO HAVANA CUBA

Editorial

 

The Gospel According to Robertson

 

After US Reverend Pat Robertson said that Washington should

assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, he tried to apologize

declaring that he had been " misunderstood " . However, once again he

underestimated his audience.

 

He forgot that those who " did not understand him " were millions of

people that include brilliant personalities of all walks of life:

journalists, politicians, religious leaders and even his friends.

Robertson is, above all, a communicator, a person trained and

qualified to speak to and make himself understood by millions of

people. For over 30 years he has preached and persuaded people

eventually becoming the main US so-called tele-preacher.

 

Preaching the Gospel has allowed Robertson to amass a fortune that

amounts to around one billion dollars. He is also the owner of

Christian Broadcasting, the most important of all US Christian

television networks. Enough to say that the program that he chose to

attack President Chávez, the 700 Club, is watched by 80 million US

citizens and by people in 200 countries, and it is broadcast in 70

languages.

 

In fact, his appeal to assassinate Chávez was so clear that it

immediately raised a rarely-seen world-wide and unanimous

condemnation, including the US State and Defense Departments who

washed their hands of Robertson's statements.

 

However, according to Venezuelan vice president José Vicente Rangel,

the fact that this kind of appeal may be broadcast by television with

total impunity shows that the assassination of President Chávez is an

option that may have been considered by the power elites in

Washington.

 

It is interesting to note, though, that some important media outlets

even in the United States demanded Robertson to take back what he had

said including the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Miami

Herald, which also asked for the intervention of the Federal

Communications Commission (FCC).

 

Those who have criticized Robertson include Revs. Jesse Jackson,

Richard Cizik and Rob Schenck, President of the National Clergy

Council as well as Mvume Dandala, General Secretary of the Conference

of African Churches composed of 120 million Christians from 39

countries.

 

Robertson is not an isolated and eccentric lunatic but a key figure in

the design of the US domestic policy, a decisive element in the

electoral speech that led George W. Bush to a second term in the White

House and an ideological mainstay of the program for the New American

Century.

 

After all, Robertson's appeal to assassinate the democratically

elected president of Venezuela came, not from a " private citizen " as

the US State Department said, but from a person who equals the

ayatollah in an Islamic republic, the ulema or the interpreters of the

Prophet's words in Afghanistan, Turkey or India.

 

compiled by NY Transfer from http://www.radiohc.cu