Is Pat Robertson Out of His Mind or in the Loop?

Interesting take on the Robertson "quote of the decade". The author Davis notes that Pat and Falwell have some direct lines to W and his cronies.

If in fact Venezuela and Iran are considering an oil embargo against the US, this may not be a random Christian perspective from the baby- faced aw-shucks father figure for the consumers of sign-on-the-dotted-line religion. Could this be a request from the top? Either Mr. Robertson is truly out of his mind or he is "useful," a word that Rumsfeld loves to use. When asked about the comment Rumsfeld referred to Robertson as a "private citizen" and rather than condemn the comment he said, "private citizens say all kinds of things all the time. Next question."

So does he know something is brewing? Did he want to give his okay? Or is he sending a message to W - a request for action?