Pat Robertson Accused of Damaging Movement He Helped Create

[Mme. Defarge]

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By SONJA BARISIC, Associated Press Writer
22 minutes ago



Fellow conservative religious leaders have expressed concern and even open criticism over Pat Robertson's habit of shooting from the hip on his daily religious news-and-talk television program, "The 700 Club."

The Christian Coalition founder and former GOP presidential candidate has said American agents should assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine retribution for pulling Israel out of the Gaza Strip.

Some observers say Robertson, who'll turn 76 next month, courts controversy as a strategy to stay recognizable and keep his followers mobilized. Others say he remains important to the evangelical movement that he helped create when he established the Virginia Beach-based Christian Broadcasting Network in 1960 — but he needs to stop damaging it with his words.

He canceled a speech planned for this coming Tuesday at the closing banquet of the National Religious Broadcasters convention in Dallas after NRB leaders said they were concerned that his appearance could detract from the event.

[benburch]

1. I had a damaging movement once.

Stool softeners. That's my advice to old Pat!

[Dr.Phool]

5. LOL

:rofl: :rofl: :applause: :applause: :rofl: :rofl:

[Cha]

13. I would add prunes

and branflakes to his diet..he has obviously stagnated his movement.

[Geo55]

16. LOLOL......absolutely PERFECT !!!!

Your header caught my eye even before I finished reading an' it was rollin' on the floor time !

Poor Patty , guess this happens when you become a "700" pound gorilla....er, monkey.

[msongs]

2. most people in 700 club believe everything robertson says IMO

they don't go there because they want to believe robertson, they are there because they already think like him

Msongs
www.msongs.com/democratsmugs.htm

[cornermouse]

3. Has anyone checked him lately for dementia or Alzheimers?

It would be an easy facesaving way out so that the rest of them could make a return trip to sanity.

[noahmijo]

4. Who cares? his "movement" and his followers can rot

nothing but a movement of immoral scumbags who have no purpose in life but to be little evil lemmings.

[Mme. Defarge]

7. Any news of disarray in the ranks

is good news.

[noahmijo]

8. I agree but it's only good for a laugh, these people are still dangerous

and will latch onto the next self professed prophet who can sucker ten bucks a month outta them.

[TexasLawyer]

6. He's a parody of himself

But there are also some fab parodies of this dangerous charlatan. The best one-- Starvin' Marvin in Space," episode 311 of South Park.


* Pat Robertson: Uh...now, now, stay with me on this one, folks. Uh...Sally Struthers has a Tiberian junker, which is...uh...the favorite ship of the Hutts, and she has trapped our...eh, our our new CBC ship in a uh....poe-sitronic tractor beam. (the cue card reads: "Positronic Tractor Beam")

Uh, so we're gonna need an ionic tractor disruptor. Now now, not a regular ionic di- tractor disruptor, but a negative ionic tractor disruptor to uh, help spread the Word of Jesus. (in a whisper) I look like a f--king idiot up here.

[gordianot]

9. No No it was damaged at birth.

[BlueManDude]

10. The DNC should pay to have him broadcast on the networks

for an hour a week.

[Mme. Defarge]

14. Good point!

I have long maintained that Ann Coulter is one of our best secret weapons.

[BlueManDude]

18. Mary Matalin too

not only is she incompetent in her professional life (she managed a sitting Vice President's Iowa caucus loss to Pat Freaking Robertson) but that voice...

[rucky]

21. Right after the Fred Phelps Show. n/t

[AlinPA]

11. That's bulls--- . He is one of the republican party's chief spokesmen.

They need him to hold the base together- the right wing, hate mongering, intolerant "Sunday morning Christians".

[ingac70]

12. Pat has some nerve....

Saying in public what they all say to each other in private.:bounce:

That is what has their panties in a wad!

[Jamastiene]

15. Yep, I knew it.

He has a "movement" and then turns right around and plays in it, destroying its original form. What else can we expect when we know he is full of shit, speaks nothing but bullshit, and then turns around and wallows in it. Even right wing nuts know when one of their own is getting grumpy and senile. :shrug:

[DeadManInc]

17. Don't know about shooting from the hip, but I know

he talks from his ass!

[hatrack]

19. I hope Pat lives for many, many years

That way, we'll have lots and lots of opportunities to show the world just what America's Religious Right - this parliament of homicidal clowns - amounts to - Digital Age technology illuminating Bronze Age mythology for the purpose of soothing and reassuring Stone Age mentalities.

To have Martin Niemoller, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King, Jr. followed some forty years later by Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and Joel Osteen as the representative voices of their religious generation is Yeats come to life. Things have fallen apart, and the center cannot hold.

[Hekate]

20. Has the radical Christian cleric issued another fatwa?

And the bozos who've been supporting him have just figured out that it might be damaging to their reputation to keep on doing so?

Ya think?

Hekate

[Peter Frank]

22. The old fart's ideology is as transparent as brown tinted glass...

Be sure to check out his health tips though.

[winston61]

23. when you get too crazy for the right in this country,

man, you are some fucked up bat shit loony. But don't sell ol' Pat short just yet. Crazy he may be, but he has millions who listen to every word and send him buckets of cash. Pat would have to murder some one on the air and then shit on the corpse before his followers will suspect anything.