Over the Top Club

The Prowler is sharing this week's over the top club with the rest of us--notably comments from public figures that go way over the top. He opens with a riff on Pat Robertson that made me smile.

Pat Robertson has long been a member of the Over the Top Club, but this week he outdid himself. Interviewing the author of a book that essentially labels the State Department a gaggle of traitors, Robertson delivered himself of the opinion that Foggy Bottom should be nuked: "I read your book. When you get through, you say (to yourself): 'If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom (the State Department's main building), I think that's the answer' and you say: 'We've got to blow that thing up.' I mean, is it as bad as you say?" Robertson asked. The author, to no one's surprise, said it is that bad. I'm certainly not a big fan of the State Department, which seems always to have other nations' best interests in mind instead of ours. But to suggest nuking it is over the top. Robertson should get off the caffeine, and not advocate the use of nukes inside our capital city.

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