I wrote a piece of dark (very dark) comedy about this jackass back in 2006. Aside from what specifically Robertson was being an idiot about (in 2006, he'd denounced Israel), the writing still seems to resonate. It was entitled "Pat Robertson Must Die" (like I said, dark comedy):
http://cindycrawford.blogspot.com/2006/01/pat-robertson-must-die.html Clearly nobody took me seriously then. My take on Robertson has always been akin to my take on Limbaugh and O'Reilly (and to an extent, Michael Moore and Al Sharpton). You aren't going to convince anybody that they are gasbags. And whenever we (I include myself) pay them lip service, we're just serving to add more publicity to them. What is the viewership of "The 700 Club"? I would guess the bulk of the show's ratings stem from media watch dog groups who are either looking for quotes to pick apart or looking for quotes to include on their right-wing PAC leaflets. We had a good three or four year period in the last decade when the media ignored Limbaugh and he was reduced to obscurity. It was a nice time to be alive. But then people began reporting his rants about Obama, and suddenly he is being described as the unofficial leader of the Republican party. That was the media's doing. When someone says or does a bad thing, it is important that we speak out against it. I'm not advocating a total media blackout of these idiots, but there is no way to report their words without including a bias. Sadly, reporters tend to be pretty bad at their jobs. Instead of holding idiots accountable for their words, they'll fill the story with what other people think. This could be done in the form of man-on-the-street interviews, or it could be done by seeking the reactions of "learned pundits." Either way, they've fueled the story instead of denouncing the words. So, I'll stick with my original thesis: Pat Robertson Must Die. I'm kidding, of course (have to say that for legal reasons). On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 5:59 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/01/13/haiti.pat.robertson/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn > > Christian Pat Robertson blames Haitian earthquake on Haiti's "pact with the > devil". > > Really? Tens of thousands - maybe hundreds of thousands - of human beings > are dead or dying, millions more have had their lives horribly degraded, and > this is the message Jesus wants delivered? I am willing to cut Jesus quite a > bit of slack - I understand he can not be held responsible for every stupid > ass thing every one of his bat-shit crazy followers has said over the last > two thousand years. But I have pretty much had it with this crowd. > Republicans want Harry Reid to resign because he used the word Negro? I > expect every single Republican to immediately condemn and repudiate this > asshole. And it is about time Jesus did something about this particular > idiot himself. > > I assumed this was some kind of sick joke the first time I read it, but then > I saw a clip of Robertson actually saying this on his show. Where are the > obscenity censors when you really need them? -- Kevin M. (RPCV)
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