Pat Robertson: "I did. Then I didn't. Now I'm sorry I did, but I'm not sorry I said I didn't."

More Fatwa Patty Follies.


For those of you who don't remember, this theocratic nutball ran for President once.

First, Pat Robertson (known in these parts as Fatwa Patty) called for the assassination of a foreign leader.

"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," Robertson said.

Then he said he didn't call for the assassination of a foreign leader.

"I didn't say 'assassination,' " the religious broadcaster said Wednesday, explaining his televised remarks about Chavez earlier this week. "I said our special forces should 'take him out.' And 'take him out' can be a number of things, including kidnapping."

Then he apologized for calling for the assassination of a foreign leader.

The founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network has released a statement in which he says, "Is it right to call for assassination? No, and I apologize for that statement."

But he doesn't apologize for lying about whether he said it or not. What happened between the "I didn't do it" statement and the "I'm sorry for doing it" statement? Did he suddenly remember that he did, indeed, do it?