Reply #4: His "apology" was as anti-Christian as his call for assassination [View All]

I read his entire press release and am unimpressed. He apologized only because of the flap that resulted from his comments, rather than because of sincere regret for his murderous statement.

An apology of expedience is no apology, and certainly any God worth worshipping can see through Robertson's false contrition at least as easily as I can.

Additionally, Robertson's apology took the form of "Maybe I shouldn't have said it, but I was right to say it because of these reasons..." A true, sincere apology wouldn't have been packaged in a laundry list of justifications.

To me, three things are clear:

1. Robertson really does want Chavez to be assassinated
2. Robertson wanted the publicity boost that his insane
proclamations always bring (and have brought him once again)
3. Robertson wanted the publicity boost that his false
apology brought him (and continues to bring him)

He's a dangerous, hateful bigot who should be stripped of his tax-exempt status and should be tried as an international terrorist. If Dubya has any integrity (a phrase that is hard for me to type even as a hypothetical), he will call for Robertson's immediate imprisonment. Thousands of Iraqis who are far less dangerous and far less influential than Robertson have been imprisoned for years without trial; the least we can do is treat radical cleric Robertson to the same.