Robertson Update

Finally, Pat Robertson grows a pair and pulls his foot out of his mouth.

(CNN) -- After two days of criticism, Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson apologized for his controversial suggestion that the United States should assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

"Is it right to call for assassination? No, and I apologize for that statement," Robertson said. "I spoke in frustration that we should accommodate the man who thinks the U.S. is out to kill him."

But he compared Chavez to Iraq's Saddam Hussein and Adolph Hitler and quoted German Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer: "[That if a madman were] driving a car into a group of innocent bystanders, then I can't, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe and then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver."

For apologizing, I'll give Pat Robertson the miniscule amount of credit he deserves. For invoking Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who would have told Pat Buchanon that he was an idiot, my level of contempt for Robertson increases.

What an absolute tool. Somebody should smite Pat Robertson... Smite him good!