Pat Robertson on Haiti Quake
It is not that we didn’t expect it. After all, evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson has said many a dumb thing in the past, but his latest opinion on the Haiti earthquake, simply goes way beyond any boundaries of civility, decency, taste and common sense.
Robertson has said and we quote: “Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it,” he said. “They were under the heel of the French … and they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, ‘We will serve you if you’ll get us free from the French.’ True story. And the devil said, ‘OK, it’s a deal,’ Ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after another.”
After 9/11, after Katrina, or after Ariel Sharon’s stroke Robertson was there to explain to the victims and to anyone who would listen why they deserved it.
And they do listen. Pat Robertson is not only one of “our” televangelists, he is also founder and chairman, of The Christian Broadcasting Network, making it very easy to express his opinions.
We always wondered how and why did these “men of God” felt that they “knew” something more that the rest of us, or why do they feel that they are authorized by anyone, particularly God to express their harebrained points of view.
Even though he wasn’t a televangelist, George W. Bush did mention that God told him to invade Iraq. We always thought that was the low point of our presidential history as a whole.
Don’t also forget for a minute that Robertson has also run for the White House at one time…
At the same time, the darling of the conservatives Rush Limbaugh has voiced the opinion that…”We’ve already donated to Haiti “It’s called the U.S. income tax.”
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The RIGHT REVRUND Pat, along with Rush, Hannity, O’Rielly, Miz Coulter, a flaming hutch chuck full of “6,000 year old” congressmen (and wimmen), every dirty shirt preacher with bus fare to escape Kentucky — the list just goes on and on. The fleeting remnant of Grand Old Party politicians whose “boy in the back room ain’t been found yet,” are still fully in charge of what the dysfunctional government does (or, doesn’t do).
Now, perhaps the most spectacular of all the freaks in the three ring circus is the snotty little tea bag wanna be in Massachusetts. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He posed naked in Cosmos back when the W was still plastered on cocaine before his DWI, but now he’s finally sprouted a full plume of neo-con feathers. In literally a single breath he spews out his similarity with JFK then tells voters he intends to be the Senator to STOP healthcare once and for all. The wholly owned media snatches a “scientific poll” from a rat infested Regent College wanna be (Suffolk College? You gotta be kidding me.) claiming that all the folks intend to vote him in. Gag.
Click your heels, Dorothy, then repeat the story over and over until it comes true.
Chad, ain’t it amazin’ that now we have a Regent College graduate as the Virginia G’vernor and that Liberty Yooneeverisity graduates widely populated the Bush administration? And now, the juvenile shoplifter and nude poser might take over Ted Kennedy’s post… Will wonders never cease? Are we really mature enough to elect our own politicians?