Pat Robertson knows of lying & the military

[nixonwasbetterthanW]

an oldie but goodie ...


He sued, then dropped the case basically because the story was true ...


<http://www.schlatter.org/liquor_officer.htm>

... Robertson vehemently denied that he had sought to evade combat or that he had ever been liquor officer. He was particularly incensed about the slur on his deceased father's reputation. That Senator Robertson would ever seek political favors for his relatives or friends was an outrageous lie, his son said.

Robertson consulted two noted conservative political advisers, Paul Weyrich and Marc Nuttle who advised him that he should bring a libel suit against the source of the story to the press, Congressman Andrew Jacobs of Indiana, as well as the man who had related it to Jacobs, one of his shipmate,, aboard the Breckinridge. The lawsuit would at least keep the story from being circulated by the media during the campaign. No newspaper would want to take the chance of itself being sued for libel until the truth were established.

Jacobs had served in Korea while Robertson was in Japan, had been wounded and in the 1980s, while in Congress, had been characterized by Robertson as one of those who were "soft on communism."

Acting on Weyrich's and Nuttle's advice, Robertson on October 21, 1986 filed a $35 million libel suit against the two former Marines, who responded that a jury trial was not a bad place to ascertain the truth.