On Jan 13, 4:22 pm, danny burstein <[email protected]> wrote: > Or, at the very least, can the Media [tm] > and his Political Panderers [tm] shun him? > > [courtesy of an ABC news "blog" which references > Pat on today's "700 club"] > --- > On the Christian Broadcasting Network's "700 Club" today, after a lengthy > interview with a missionary who talked about helping the victims earthquake in > Haiti, Rev. Pat Robertson had some interesting thoughts as to why the > earthquake struck the impoverished nation: > > "And you know, Kristi, something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people > might not want to talk about it. > > "They were under the heel of the French, uh, you know Napoleon the 3rd and > whatever, 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.
Wait a minute. How does he *know* it's true? Isn't it more likely that someone with an axe to grind, say THE FRENCH, made up the story out of whole cloth? I mean, once your opponent is on the side of The Devil, that justifies pretty much anything you do against them, doesn't it? -Doug Elrod ([email protected]) If ever a story called for some journalistic fact-checking....
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