Pat Robertson's Hit List
It isn't only Chavez he wants gone.
And if homosexuals caused 9/11, we can't very well allow the entire population of Scotland to live, since Scotland is a "dark land" where "you can't believe how strong the homosexuals are."
Finally, don't forget the "tightly knit cabal" of "European bankers" whose origins lie with the "Bavarian illuminati." A decade ago, Michael Lind pointed out in the New York Review of Books that these are all crudely anti-Semitic code phrases for "the Jews." According to Robertson, they serve the devil. They're going to have to go, too.
What would Dietrich Bonhoeffer make of that?
So many Hitlers. So little time.
Correction, Aug. 26, 2005: An earlier version of this column misspelled Bonhoeffer's name. (Return to corrected sentence.)
Timothy Noah is a former Slate staffer. His book about income inequality is The Great Divergence.



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