Lie of note:

"I said our special forces could take him out. Take him out could be a number of things including kidnapping," Roberson said, according to Reuters news agency. "There are a number of ways of taking out a dictator from power besides killing him. I was misinterpreted."

On Monday's program, he had said: "I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think we really ought to go ahead and do it…. We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability."

Robertson Apologizes, Says He Was Misinterpreted
By James Gerstenzang and Larry B. Stammer, Times Staff Writers

WASHINGTON -- Televangelist Pat Robertson apologized today for calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, but separately said he had been misinterpreted.

Is it right to call for assassination? No, and I apologize for that statement," Robertson said in a statement issued by his Christian Broadcasting Network.