I still think the media are giving disproportionate attention to Robertson’s comments about Hugo Chavez, but it’s harder to make that argument when he keeps saying dumb things. Here’s what Robertson said he said:

I didn’t say ‘assassination.’ I said our special forces should ‘take him out.’ And ‘take him out’ can be a number of things, including kidnapping; there are a number of ways to take out a dictator from power besides killing him. I was misinterpreted by the AP, but that happens all the time.

Here’s what he actually said:

If he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think we really ought to go ahead and do it.

It’s kind of hard to say that the media are focusing too much on Robertson when he serves up, for lack of a better word, a lie like that. The media will forget about all this as soon as Cindy Sheehan returns to her sound stage in Crawford, but until then Robertson’s handlers need to shut him up.

UPDATE: 3:48 p.m.: CNN is reporting that Robertson formally apologized for his remarks in a statement he just released.