Did you know: Pat Robertson once owned the rights to sinful TV like "Rhoda"?
Considering Pat Robertson's crazy backward beliefs on gender roles, does it make your head explode to realize that the good reverend made money off Rhoda, where a major development for the title character was...COHABITATION with her future husband, which conservative Christian dogma considers sinful. Not only did the title character live in sin with an unmarried man before marriage, she also had the gall to DIVORCE before procreation!
In 1993, MTM Enterprises was bought out by International Family Entertainment, a company owned by the Rev. Robertson. MTM is the Mary Tyler Moore-founded parent company of shows like Moore's eponymous '70s sitcom as well as spinoffs Rhoda, Phyllis, and Lou Grant? Other notable MTM-owned shows:
- WKRP in Cincinnati (sitcom about a rock n' roll radio station)
- St. Elsewhere (medical drama)
- Both of Bob Newhart's sitcoms
And International Family Entertainment owned The Family Channel back in the '90s, the predecessor of what's now the ABC Family Channel, also a home of lots of sinful shows like Pretty Little Liars or Secret Life of the American Teenager as this fundie blog will tell ya.
BUT here's a twist. In the late '90s, The Family Channel became Fox Family Channel after NewsCorp bought a stake, then Disney bought the channel wholesale in '01. ABC Family carries Robertson's The 700 Club twice a day as part of its contract with Robertson.
Furthermore, WKRP had an episode that mocked the Moral Majority. As well as lots of sinful rock music too.
I guess this shows Robertson to be who he is, a phony, greedy shyster who lacks principle.
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