Obituary: Pat Robertson

 File under "The Good Die Young":   Politically minded televangelist Pat Robertson, 93, has died.  He was known for pioneering the idea of a Christian (read right-wing "evangelical") talk show and television network CBN although initially his foray into the talk show genre was actually fronted by Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, who had been employed by Robertson back in the early 1960s.  Jim and Tammy became so popular, they ended up setting up their own talk show and eventual television network via satellite.  Meanwhile, Pat, always wanting to be in front of the camera and not just running the show behind the scenes, started a show called The 700 Club, I believe named for the first donors to his operation.

Robertson, unlike Bakker, was born into wealth and power.  His father, A. Willis Robertson, was a Democratic senator from Virginia.  Coming from that background, the younger Robertson had a privileged life, attending hoity-toity private schools, attending and graduating from Washington and Lee University, and eventually earning a law degree from Yale.  However, Robertson flunked the New York bar exam and never again attempted to become a licensed attorney.  He decided religion was a much more lucrative racket than law, and with far fewer headaches.

Along the way, he met Adelia "Dede" Elmer, a fashion model studying for her master's degree in nursing, and someone his family did not approve of, and married her in 1954.  As we know from his failed campaign for president in 1988, it was a "shotgun" marriage.  The pair ended up having four children including Gordon, who later became head of CBN.  Dede died last year.

Like a lot of televangelists with a lot of money to burn, Pat founded his own university, CBN (later Regent) University, aimed at graduate studies.  He continued to be a major player in GOP politics with founding the Christian Coalition though he would be critical every now and then on certain stands the party took.

Pat's real name was Marion Gordon Robertson.

Robertson died early today.  Snip:

--Marion Gordon Robertson was born on March 22, 1930, in Lexington, Va., to parents who were first cousins and the offspring of Baptist preachers. His youth was shaped by his proximity to Washington policymakers, and by his father’s insistence that he learn the value of work and responsibility through backbreaking farm labor.

His mother, the former Gladys Churchill Willis, imbued him with religious faith, and with a sense of pride in a genealogy that included two presidents (William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison). She told him God had a plan for him.

He was called Pat because, when he was a baby, his older brother and only sibling, A. Willis Robertson Jr., had patted him on his cheeks, saying, “Pat, pat, pat.”--

Pat's life is proof of the saying: "It isn't what you know but YOU you know that matters."

The Good Die Young

The shock here isn't that Pat Robertson is saying outrageous things--he has ALWAYS done that. Instead, the surprise is he is still around to say anything at all.

Robertson is 86 years old and apparently is trying to outdo Methuselah in longevity.

He is still as crazy now as he was 35 or 40 years ago:



Everybody knew he was talking metaphorically when speaking about the LGBTs and the Muslims "killing themselves" while people like him sit on the sidelines.

Of course, the shooting had little to do with either group despite the fact it was LGBTs who were victimized. The issues were untreated mental illness and easy gun access.

Both issues the GOP and people like Robertson refuse to deal with.

"The Bible Says You Know Them By Their Fruits."

So says embattled anti-gay ESPN commentator Chris Broussard, who has gotten some very vocal support from aging televangelist Pat Robertson, who forgot about the "fruits" of his own immorality (oldest child Tim):

If Pat Robertson Were Alive, He'd Be Rolling Over in His Grave

With apologies to President Gerald Ford's famous malapropism when speaking about Lincoln.

Pat Robertson has come up with another laugh-until-you-ache classic:




Robertson has always said things that were totally off the wall. However, it seems now Pat is crazier than a shithouse rat coming up with wild statements on an almost hourly basis.

Pat Robertson Needs to Retire

He needed to retire years ago after he made his first billion, but at 82 he is just a total embarrassment. Robertson may have hit (no pun intended) an all-time low with his "advice" to an insecure husband who can't "control" "his" wife, but he has a lot of low points in his career.

I guess if you can't beat your wife, who can you beat? That seems to be his attitude for "controlling women" as if they are little children. They need to be "submissive" to men as "heads of the households." Of course beating anybody or anything is wrong, to say nothing of how sick it is to make light of it:

"It's a Chicken Sandwich."

Video of the day:



Of course gays and lesbians can't produce children through homosexual acts; a male and a female are required directly or indirectly (as in a lab or adoption) for reproduction. Pat's a bigot, and it is he who should shut his mouth.

Babies don't come out of people's asses, but many people talk out of them. Regardless, Pat has said far worse things, frankly.

Earth to Pat

The kind of economic policies you and your right-wing/libertarian ilk in both political parties support and implement will destroy this country and not what people do or don't do in the sack:



Billionaire Robertson gets sillier and sillier the older he gets. He's around 81 years old now.

Hatefest on Haiti

Of course it is the old demented one, Pat Robertson:



In this crackpot's view, Haiti is in trouble because it is in a "pact" with the "Devil," and the country needs to turn to God like its neighbor the Dominican Republic.

Miscellaneous

God placed a phone call to Pat Robertson and told him these things would come to pass:

"The Lord said the economy of your nation will recover," Robertson told a New Year's Day prayer session, which he broadcast on "The 700 Club."

During an exchange on his show Friday, Robertson said, "I'm flying in the face of all of the experts or most of the experts who say, 'Oh no, no, no, it's going to get worse,' but I don't think so."

He said the recovery would be swift.

While Robertson said the economy will rebound during Barack Obama's presidency, he said it will come with a dose of more government. "The people will welcome socialism in order to relieve their pain," he said.

Robertson claimed God told him Islam would weaken, which is a surprise to those believing in that religion.
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Miscellaneous.

Is Dayton, Nevada, location of many scenes in the 1960 film The Misfits, ready to become a full-fledged city?
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Naturally PETA and Newkirk are in favor of killing pets; they are OPPOSED to the domestication of animals because they see it is "exploitative."

Nobody should give a dime to these freaks.
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The NYT finally has an obit of Louis Wolfson, who died Sunday.

His second wife, Patrice Jacobs Wolfson, is 70, according to USA People Search.
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You can bet your ass that tiger was taunted, no matter what the victims' lawyer says.

By the way, a small vigil was held for Tatiana.
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A snake was lucky to be alive after eating golf balls.
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Jeane Dixon is alive and well through Pat Robertson.
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ORU Scandal.

Is Batshit Pat plotting a hostile takeover of ORU ala Jerry Falwell and PTL?

Stay tuned.

Does

the Robertson endorsement of Giuliani really mean anything?

I doubt it.

More Campaign Notes.

Wanting to make sure a Republican gets in there--any Republican, as long as he can win--batshit Pat Robertson has decided to endorse Rudy Giuliani for president.

It's still a horse race for the GOP nomination. I couldn't tell you at this point who will get the nod as the nominee. I do believe Huckabee will be the running mate to the winner.

It's Nice to Know

places like Regent University are allowed to pollute our federal government with its graduates.