Pat Robertson: 'One Little Jewish Radical' Has 'Terrorized' Our Cowardly Military

[big_dog]

TV preacher Pat Robertson is not pleased by the Air Force’s recent decision to make the words “So help me God” optional in the oath of enlistment, a result of the controversy over an airman in Nevada who was not allowed to re-enlist after he omitted the line. The “700 Club” host reacted to the news today by criticizing the Air Force as cowards for “caving” to the “little Jewish radical” Mikey Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, whom he said is “terrorizing” the military:

There is a left-wing radical named Mikey Weinstein who has gotten a group about ‘people against religion’ or whatever he calls it and he has just terrorized the Armed Forces. You think you’re supposed to be tough, you’re supposed to defend us, and you’ve got one little Jewish radical who is scaring the pants off of you. You want these guys flying airplanes to defend us when you’ve got one little guy terrorizing them? That’s what it amounts to. We swear oaths, ‘So help me God,’ what does it mean? It mean’s with God’s help. You don’t have to say you believe in God, you just have to say you want some help beside myself with the oath I’m taking. It’s just crazy. What is wrong with the Air Force? How can they fly the bombers to defend us if they cave to one little guy?

Of course, as Don Boys of the Baptist Joint Committee notes, it’s not just atheists but also some Christians “whose religious teachings prohibit oaths to God” who would be affected by the policy.
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[msanthrope]

1. One little Jewish radical? Is he talking about his Jesus? Jewish radical, executed by the state?nt

[Kber]

10. Radical jewish tendencies were exorcised from main stream Christianity centuries ago.

But it was fun while it lasted, I suppose.

[msanthrope]

11. Too bad...Robertson needs someone to get all Maccabee on his ass. nt

[napkinz]

12. ...

[Hassin Bin Sober]

2. Doesn't he have some hemorrhoids he should be healing?

[snooper2]

3. he didn't dead yet?

[MohRokTah]

4. So, since this guy is an atheist, Robertson's remark is racially motivated.

What a fucking buffoon.

[m-lekktor]

14. Mikey Weinstein is NOT an atheist.

He gets annoyed when people ASSUME that.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-rodda/no-megyn-kelly-mikey-wein_b_5240896.html

[MohRokTah]

16. Ah, I confused him for the actual person denied reinlistment. eom

[Marrah_G]

5. Is it wrong to say the day this man dies the world will be a better place?

Because I sincerely believe it will.

[bullwinkle428]

6. Enjoyed his rant more in the original German.

[Drunken Irishman]

21. I miss Molly Ivins.

[Orsino]

7. "No religious test" isn't radical.

Robertson's Military Jesus is.

[MineralMan]

8. Pat Robertson - a master moron among morons.

When will he learn to keep his cakehole closed?

[msanthrope]

15. His cakehole won't be closed until the twine is tightened.

(Little funeral home humor there.....)

[Rozlee]

9. Matthew 5:34-38.

"But, I tell you, do not swear an oath at all: neither by heaven, for it is God's throne, or by earth, for it is his footstool...but let your "yes" be yes and your "no" be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation."

They shouldn't be taking oaths at all if they want to stick to the letter of their gospel.

[msanthrope]

13. Matthew 6:6 pretty much covers the whole nonsense, doesn't it? nt

[louis-t]

17. Uh oh.....

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

18. But..but..Pat Robertson was an heroic ex-marine...sort of...according Pat Robertson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson#Education_and_military_service

Education and military service

When he was eleven, Robertson was enrolled in the preparatory McDonogh School outside Baltimore, Maryland. From 1940 until 1946 he attended The McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he graduated with honors. He gained admission to Washington and Lee University, where he received a B.A. in History, graduating magna cum laude. He joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Robertson has said, "Although I worked hard at my studies, my real major centered around lovely young ladies who attended the nearby girls schools."[7]

In 1948, the draft was reinstated and Robertson was given the option of joining the Marine Corps or being drafted into the army; he opted for the first.

In his words, "We did long, grueling marches to toughen the men, plus refresher training in firearms and bayonet combat." In the same year, he transferred to Korea, "I ended up at the headquarters command of the First Marine Division," says Robertson. "The Division was in combat in the hot and dusty, then bitterly cold portion of North Korea just above the 38th Parallel later identified as the 'Punchbowl' and 'Heartbreak Ridge.' For that service in the Korean War, the Marine Corps awarded me three battle stars for 'action against the enemy.'"[8]

However, former Republican Congressman Paul "Pete" McCloskey, Jr., who served with Robertson in Korea, wrote a public letter which said that Robertson was actually spared combat duty when his powerful father, a U.S. Senator, intervened on his behalf, and that Robertson spent most of his time in an office in Japan. According to McCloskey, his time in the service was not in combat but as the "liquor officer" responsible for keeping the officers' clubs supplied with liquor. Robertson filed a $35 million libel suit against McCloskey in 1986.[9] He dropped the case in 1988, before it came to trial and paid McCloskey's court costs.[10] According to a newspaper report from 1986, Robertson confirmed elements of McCloskey's allegations and said that he never saw front-line duty.[11]

Robertson was promoted to first lieutenant in 1952 upon his return to the United States. He then went on to receive a Law degree from Yale Law School in 1955. However, he didn't pass the New York bar exam,[12] shortly thereafter underwent a religious conversion, and decided against pursuing a career in law. Instead, Robertson attended the New York Theological Seminary, where he received a Master of Divinity degree in 1959.

Also here:

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20098476,00.html

It now appears that Robertson underestimated McCloskey's sense of offended honor. Inviting bankruptcy by spending $400,000 in his own defense, McCloskey tracked down several of the men who served with Robertson. Others came forward when they read about the suit. These men confirmed, in sworn depositions, that Robertson never saw combat and spent much of his tour in Masan, Korea, keeping the bar well-stocked at the officers' club. Paul William Brosman Jr., a second lieutenant who served with Robertson there, also testified under oath that Robertson was "inconsiderate" of a 19-year-old Korean barracks maid—pinching her and carrying on in public even though she was obviously unreceptive and terrified that other Koreans would conclude she was a prostitute. "She would plead with him to stop," said Brosman, "and he wouldn't stop. None of the rest of us would have done that. [We knew that] the prostitutes were dead meat when we left because they had ruined their lives to make money off the Americans." Robertson's lawyer, Joel Leising, asked Brosman whether he recalled any specific conversations with the future minister in Korea. "Well, yeah," said Brosman, a retired linguistics professor in New Orleans. "He was scared to death he had gonorrhea...."

Perhaps the strongest testimony—the "smoking gun," McCloskey called it—was that of Lt. Col. Good Burleson, who was a liaison officer in Tokyo in 1951. Burleson, now 76 and retired, said last week that he remembered a dispatch from Marine command concerning the son of a Virginia legislator (whose name he couldn't recall).The politician, said Burleson, was worried that "had not had sufficient combat training to go to Korea" and asked that he be taken off the ship. "I sort of resented it," recalled Burleson, "because I felt that he probably got as much training as the other lieutenants on the ship, and I didn't like for a Congressman's [sic] son to get preferential treatment." At the time, it was highly unusual for a second lieutenant in Korea not to see combat duty; of the 71 officers aboard the Breckinridge, more than half were killed or wounded in Korea.

[onenote]

19. This could be fun

if the media starts asking RW repubs if they condemn Robertson's remarks and they have to choose between pissing off Jewish voters and pissing off Robertson's crazies.

[Behind the Aegis]

20. Not really.

First, the RW media will never address this issue. Second, the Jewish community that votes Republican is very small, so not lots of votes there. Third, Jews are used to this crap, including those suddenly concerned for us (not saying you, just in general).