tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post708522018757279978..comments2024-03-29T07:00:27.146-04:00Comments on Encyclopedia of American Loons: #338: Pat RobertsonG.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-60510717961157369072023-06-08T19:24:21.153-04:002023-06-08T19:24:21.153-04:00Would playing "Ding-Dong, the Witch is Dead&q...Would playing "Ding-Dong, the Witch is Dead" be uncalled for?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01026387669667121074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-25280560639142374512023-06-08T16:25:26.536-04:002023-06-08T16:25:26.536-04:00Thank god he's gone!
Rot in hell bastard!!!Thank god he's gone!<br /><br />Rot in hell bastard!!!<br />Gyula Ferenczyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08908826510921221356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-80909795319490847742023-06-08T16:22:58.077-04:002023-06-08T16:22:58.077-04:00Thank god he's gone!
Rot in hell bastard!!!Thank god he's gone! <br /><br />Rot in hell bastard!!!Gyula Ferenczyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08908826510921221356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-66667609714204038202014-04-29T15:40:37.678-04:002014-04-29T15:40:37.678-04:00Well, although Robertson for once appeared on the ...Well, although Robertson for once <a href="http://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/pat-robertson-reacts-to-ken-hams-performance/" rel="nofollow">appeared on the side of reason</a> over the creationists’ objections to the recent rebooting of Cosmos, he cannot exactly be said to be a friend of science. For instance, he continues to <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-idiocy-believe-climate-change-it-cold-winter" rel="nofollow">think that climate change is refuted</a> because it is cold in the winter, and that <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-climate-change-myth-created-money-hungry-scientists" rel="nofollow">climate change is a myth created by money hungry scientists</a>. (Which must be one of the silliest and most incoherent ideas ever entertained.) <br /><br />It’s not his only conspiracy theory, of course; he is <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-repeats-claim-obama-secret-muslim" rel="nofollow">still pushing</a> the claim that Obama is a secret Muslim, and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-fears-islamist-atheist-takeover-america" rel="nofollow">still fears</a> an Islamist-atheist takeover of America (pointing out that <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2014/04/28/robertson-islamists-atheists-pushing-churchstate-separation/" rel="nofollow">it is islamist-atheists who are pushing the separation of church and state</a>, an abomination in Robertson’s eyes, apparently).<br /><br />He also believes that <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/paranoia-rama-week-right-wing-lunacy-121313" rel="nofollow">homosexuality is contagious</a>. Perhaps he thinks that this is the reason <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-un-american-oppose-anti-gay-segregation-bills" rel="nofollow">it is un-American to oppose anti-gay segregation bills</a>.<br /><br />Oh, and for miscellaneous insanity, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-first-cousins-can-marry-long-they-avoid-having-some-mongoloid-child" rel="nofollow">here</a> he argues that it is OK for first cousins to marry “as long as they avoid having some mongoloid child.” <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-horror-movies-could-lead-demonic-possession" rel="nofollow">Here</a> he argues that horror movies could lead to demonic possession, and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-recalls-doctor-raising-patient-dead-prayer" rel="nofollow">here</a> he recalls a doctor raising a patient from the dead with prayer – needless to say abstaining to provide the kind of detail that would allow anyone to verify the claim.G.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-66236551535146248902014-01-08T22:16:48.135-05:002014-01-08T22:16:48.135-05:00Pat Robertson's 2014 predictions are out. And ...Pat Robertson's <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2014/01/08/pat-robertsons-2014-predictions/" rel="nofollow">2014 predictions are out</a>. And there was much rejoicing.G.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-79273209591062698632013-11-29T13:57:37.694-05:002013-11-29T13:57:37.694-05:00Pat Robertson rambles on, and it is hard to keep u...Pat Robertson rambles on, and it is hard to keep up with the delusionally and dangerously stupid. He did receive some flak for his claim that <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-gay-people-deliberately-spread-hivaids-cutting-people-special-rings" rel="nofollow">gay people deliberately spread HIV by cutting people with special rings</a>. (Being dimly aware that this was somewhat controversial, he tried, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gay-aids-ring-video-pat-robertson-doesnt-want-you-see" rel="nofollow">unsuccessfully</a>, to cover it up.). He has also pushed a (discredited, of course) conspiracy theory <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-pushes-discredited-conspiracy-theory-blame-who-polio-experiment-aids" rel="nofollow">blaming WHO polio experiments for AIDS</a>. More <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2013/10/14/robertson-spouts-absurd-aids-conspiracy-theory/" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/05/mission-congo-pat-robertson-aid-rwanda" rel="nofollow">Here</a> is a rather useful documentary on Robertson’s inhumane antics in Africa (though Robertson <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-threatens-legal-action-against-filmmakers-exposing-charity-scam" rel="nofollow">sure doesn’t like</a> people exposing his dishonesty. <br /><br />In other news, he has recently <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-marks-911-blaming-separation-church-and-state-inviting-radical-muslim-fifth-co" rel="nofollow">blamed 9/11 on the separation of church and state</a> (which is how Bush, naively, came to invite radical Muslim fifth-columnists to America. Yes, Robertson’s rant is as insane as you suspect.) He has also <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-san-antonio-will-put-christians-jail-over-anti-discrimination-policy" rel="nofollow">attempted to argue</a> that San Antonio will put Christians in jail over anti-discrimination policy (having a Biblical view of sexuality has, according to Robertson (falsely, if that needed saying), been “criminalized” in San Antonio). Meanwhile, liberalism still <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2013/10/24/robertson-liberalism-leads-to-nazis/" rel="nofollow">leads to nazism</a>.<br /><br />Being no fan of Obamacare, Robertson has sketched his own healthcare plan: <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2013/10/08/pat-robertsons-health-care-plan/" rel="nofollow">Send him money</a>. A good example of how this would pan out is <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-mother-who-cant-heal-sons-deafness-must-be-doing-something-wrong" rel="nofollow">here</a> (blame the patient has never been taken to more exalted levels). Demons are apparently part of it. According to Robertson <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-secret-demonic-objects-your-house-could-give-you-headaches" rel="nofollow">secret demonic objects in your house could give you headaches</a>. And <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-muslim-neighbor-invited-demonic-presence-your-home" rel="nofollow">here</a> he diagnoses a viewer as having been exposed to demonic presences by her Muslim neighbor.G.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-43780277416959424492013-08-18T13:27:42.070-04:002013-08-18T13:27:42.070-04:00He’s getting old. Like a phantom straight out of t...He’s getting old. Like a phantom straight out of the 1980s, Robertson linked suicide to <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-links-demonic-dungeons-dragons-suicide" rel="nofollow">“demonic games” like Dungeons and Dragons</a>, which he put on par with bulimia and anorexia. <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-exorcism-required-demon-infested-haunted-house" rel="nofollow">Here</a> is Robertson’s advice on how to deal with a haunted house: exorcism (also <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2013/08/02/robertson-exorcism-needed-to-eliminate-ghosts/" rel="nofollow">here</a>)<br /><br />But at least Robertson is not anti-gay. No; you see, that’s not possible, since <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-we-are-not-anti-gay-gays-are-just-confused-straight-people" rel="nofollow">gays are just confused straight people</a>. They don’t “really” exist, in other words. He <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-fears-christians-will-go-jail-saving-gays-hell-stopping-them-destroying-country" rel="nofollow">does, though</a> fear that Christians will soon have to go to jail in the US for saving gays from hell and stopping them from destroying the country. After all, persecution is already everywhere. For instance, SUV owners <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/700-club-climate-change-helps-environment-and-civilization-suv-owners-treated-witches" rel="nofollow">are treated like witches</a> these days, even though climate change according to Robertson actually helps the environment and civilization (he doesn’t go into details, though).<br /><br /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-still-lacking-self-awareness-calls-disaster-prophecies-nutty-and-pit-hell" rel="nofollow">This</a>, though, must be a world record in lack of self-irony – Robertson actually <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2013/06/16/pat-robertsons-staggering-lack-of-irony/" rel="nofollow">calls</a> disaster prophecies “nutty” and “from the pit of hell”. <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-expect-natural-disasters-and-divine-wrath-over-middle-east-peace-talks" rel="nofollow">Here</a> he warns us to expect natural disasters and divine wrath over the US role in mediating peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians.G.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-80856773008593049612013-05-19T12:23:40.286-04:002013-05-19T12:23:40.286-04:00Robertson has also started to push Illuminati cons...Robertson has also started to push <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2013/04/21/robertson-pushes-illuminati-conspiracy/" rel="nofollow">Illuminati conspiracies</a>. He needs something like this, since he appears to be under the impression that <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-planned-parenthood-inspired-adolf-hitler-behind-genocide-black-community" rel="nofollow">Planned Parenthood is inspired by Adolf Hitler</a> in their fanatic push for genocide against the African-American community.<br /><br />On another note, he has also claimed that <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-security-cameras-ushering-end-times-and-mark-beast" rel="nofollow">security cameras are ushering in the end times</a>, and he has recently also further elaborated on <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-tells-woman-whose-husband-cheated-remember-hes-man-and-be-grateful-she-lives-ameri" rel="nofollow">his feminist approach to social issues</a>.<br /><br />Finally, in an example of stupendous lack of self-awareness, Robertson - who has claimed that God told him that Romney would win in 2012 - has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-who-said-lord-told-me-romney-will-win-urges-viewers-beware-false-prophets" rel="nofollow">warned his viewers against false prophets</a>. G.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-20473958809712974292013-04-19T15:48:13.824-04:002013-04-19T15:48:13.824-04:00Why do poor people in Africa have more miracles th...Why do poor people in Africa have more miracles than we do (assumption not supported with evidence)? Robertson, not otherwise known for his care to avoid being condescending, <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/04/01/pat-is-short-for-patronizing/" rel="nofollow">has an answer</a>: Americans know too much science, while people overseas are “simple, humble” and God loves ‘em more.<br /><br />Although it is easy to interpret Robertson as merely radically pro-Israel (claiming that Ariel Sharon’s stroke and the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin were signs from God), it strikes one that his real stance is simply <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-america-asking-wrath-almighty-god-pursuing-mideast-peace-plan" rel="nofollow">opposition to any form of peace in the Middle East</a>.<br /><br />And he has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-demonic-dungeons-dragons-literally-destroyed-peoples-lives" rel="nofollow">finally weighed in</a> on the nefariousness of Dungeons & Dragons: demonic rituals that have literally destroyed people’s lives.<br />G.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-64963632852293116412013-03-28T13:40:54.376-04:002013-03-28T13:40:54.376-04:00Robertson seems to be going for the world record i...Robertson <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-beware-scamsters-religious-garb" rel="nofollow">seems to be</a> going for the world record in lack of self-awareness.<br /><br />You can see him flail out at "doctrinaire environmentalist fanatics" <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-lashes-out-doctrinaire-environmentalist-fanatics%22" rel="nofollow">here</a> - and miss rather badly. According to Robertson, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-environmentalists-may-cause-deaths-couple-billion-people" rel="nofollow">environmentalists may cause the deaths of a couple of billion people</a>. They don't see that, of course, because - as opposed to Robertson - environmentalists don't have a hotline to God's truth, and their science, evidence and reason can hardly match up with Robertson's divine powers of intuition.<br /><br />He has also bought into the rightwing conspiracy myth that <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-government-preparing-battle-against-us" rel="nofollow">the government is preparing for a battle against "us"</a> and therefore hoarding ammunition and (presumably) setting up concentration camps for all the good Christians. The main evidence is that Robertson's particular branch of fundamentalism feeds off of persecution complexes and paranoia, the wingnut favored substitute for reason.G.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-85387994024219356932013-03-03T11:23:35.983-05:002013-03-03T11:23:35.983-05:00Robertson argues that “demonic Islam” isn’t a reli...Robertson argues that “demonic Islam” isn’t a religion, but <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-demonic-islam-isnt-religion-economic-and-political-system" rel="nofollow">an economic and political system</a>. It makes sense for Robertson to say this, however. After all, it is exactly what Robertson himself views his own brand of Christianity to be.<br /><br />He has also realigned his opinions with standard wingnut denialism and gone <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-dismisses-nutty-true-believer-climate-scientists" rel="nofollow">climate change denialist</a> (I suppose climate change is one of those things that, in Robertson’s mind, for which <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-liberals-use-schools-gulags-indoctrinate-youth" rel="nofollow">liberals use schools as gulags to indoctrinate youth</a>), and furthermore recommended <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-worth-praying-over-clothes-rebuke-demons" rel="nofollow">praying over clothes bought second-hand</a> to clean them of demons before bringing them into your home.<br />G.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-38653930212266455672013-01-30T13:06:53.437-05:002013-01-30T13:06:53.437-05:00Robertson on the unholy alliance between liberals ...Robertson <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2013/01/04/cbn-exposes-liberalmuslim-plot-to-destroy-humanity/" rel="nofollow">on the unholy alliance between liberals and muslims</a> that exists in his imagination.<br />G.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-11033861194179836062013-01-04T12:21:12.822-05:002013-01-04T12:21:12.822-05:00There is a useful summary of Robertson's 2012 ...There is a useful summary of Robertson's 2012 predictions, and their accuracy, <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2013/01/02/pat-robertsons-2012-predictions/" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br />G.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-88847643661360629282012-11-19T20:10:27.484-05:002012-11-19T20:10:27.484-05:00And ... the imaginary war on Christmas is allegedl...And ... the imaginary war on Christmas is <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-miserable-atheists-trying-steal-christmas" rel="nofollow">allegedly on.</a> Good to know, and we would - in fact - never have discovered if Pat hadn't told us, for obvious reasons.G.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-69075433916725321972012-09-10T16:38:52.421-04:002012-09-10T16:38:52.421-04:00As always, no one identifies the important politic...As always, no one identifies the important political issues of today as Pat Robertson. Thus, as a response to the fact that wife-beating is generally frowned upon in the West today, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-condone-wife-beating-saudi-arabia" rel="nofollow">he suggests moving to Saudi-Arabia</a>, where such god-given rights are more universally recognized.G.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414946164942126209.post-67364152154857056462012-06-29T06:16:26.746-04:002012-06-29T06:16:26.746-04:00Pat Robertson is a Christian first, and an America...Pat Robertson is <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/02/09/pat-robertson-christian-first-american-second/" rel="nofollow">a Christian first, and an American second</a>, but that’s apparently OK, since he is not a Muslim. He would apparently be aghast if a Muslim said the same about his or her religion. Pat Robertson is (of course) convinced that the left, the gays and Muslim extremists share an agenda (explicitly: to impose sharia law in the US). The evidence is straightforward: all those groups hate America. It is less clear how Robertson derived the prediction (apart from pulling it out of his own mental muddle); even <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-warns-left-and-muslim-americans-want-sharia-law-attacks-anti-defamation-league" rel="nofollow">less clear how he manages to make his prediction fit the data</a>. I suppose the answer is hate and ignorance.<br /><br />Oh, and here is an apt birthday salute: <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/happy-birthdayn-pat-robertson" rel="nofollow">Happy Birthday, Pat</a>.<br /><br />By the way, would you believe it, but from Robertson you can learn that<br /><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-says-homosexuality-related-demonic-possession" rel="nofollow"> homosexuality is “related to demonic possession”</a>.<br /><br />He has also more than suggested <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-the-poor-jews" rel="nofollow"> Robertson suggesting anti-semitism</a>, and said that <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-scientists-cant-speculate-origins-of-life" rel="nofollow">scientists cannot speculate about the origin of life</a>, apparently because he (Robertson) may not like the answers.<br /><br />And keep in mind: if his faith healing doesn’t work for you <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-tells-viewer-its-his-own-fault-not-robertson%E2%80%99s-healing-didnt-work" rel="nofollow"> it’s your own fault</a>. In that respect he’s actually exactly like more or less every other woo-meister out there.G.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08875360501107597863noreply@blogger.com