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Alright, I apologize to the throngs of Talking Points readers who wrote in asking why almost forty-eight postless hours went by on the site. But even if that weren’t the case we’d still have to go on the air to issue a special Talking Points Schadenfreude Alert.

As you all know, Pat Robertson, one-time Pope of Christian Conservatism ain’t much of a fan of abortion. In fact, he considers it murder and a sin and an abomination and all the rest.

Unless of course it’s forced abortion in the interest of preserving racial purity. That’s something else entirely!

That’s what Robertson told Wolf Blitzer Monday night on CNN, as recounted here in this article in the Washington Post.

After telling Blitzer that forced abortion might be necessary to hold down China’s population, Robertson went on to explain:

It’s going to be a demographic catastrophe. When they’re having abortions, they’re picking the girl babies for the slaughter, and they’re allowing only the males to be born. And in another, say, 10 or 20 years, there’s going to be a critical shortage of wives. The young men won’t have any women to marry. So it will, in a sense, dilute the — what they consider — the racial purity of the Han Chinese. And that to them will be a great tragedy because then they will have to be importing wives from Indonesia and other countries in order to fill up the population.

Mike Kinsley once said (and I’m paraphrasing here) that a gaffe is when a politician inadvertently tells truth, or at least, speaks candidly. But this assumes that the pol says something that we all know to be true in some sense and not just the prefab malarkey that their handlers feed them.

But when Robertson speaks candidly, again and again, he says things so deeply crazy that it’s a wonder why he is still a figure in American public life. Remember of course that this same Pat Robertson who published a book which rehashed much of the vile craziness of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

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