What’s A Natural Disaster Without Pat Robertson To Explain?

Don’t you mean “radical cleric” Pat Robertson Michael?
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I am semi serious. When crazy muslim preachers get that title, why don’t those of you in the media use that on Pat Robertson. I am serious, and politefully request a response if you have time.

I’m not even sure how to respond to this except to say that if Pat Robinson is looking for evil then perhaps he should start by looking in his bathroom mirror first thing tomorrow.

I guess PR never heard of plate tectonics.

Google says that Time doesn’t really refer to white people as “radical clerics.”

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Radical+Cleric%22+and+Time&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Whoops, here’s a better link about who Time calls radical clerics and who Time doesn’t call radical clerics.

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#hl=en&source=hp&q=%22Radical+Cleric%22+and+Time&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&fp=df82d86320cf60e9

Question: If Haiti had made a pact with the devil then wouldn’t the devil have struck down Haiti only if Haiti had broken the pact? Such as by turning towards God?
Quick, somebody let Pat know that God has let Haiti down!

Dominican Republic is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts…

And noted for an economy that includes a significant amount of underage prostitution……

Just ask Rush…..

Haiti is about 90% Roman Catholic….
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So PR knows that ol’ Beelzebub and the Hatians made a deal two centuries ago, huh? I take it he was there. Sure looks like he was.

I thought he was too busy slandering dead men.

Shoulda known it was the French.

Of course, it’s Robertson’s own pact with the Devil that forced Pat to need a 10-hour-long surgery on his heart.

What? In Robertson’s world, it’s entirely possible.

The prostitution rate per capita in the Dominican Republic is considered very high. Additionally, the Dominican Republic is statistically the 4th largest exporter of prostitutes in the world behind Brazil, Thailand and the Philippines. So why are the rates so high? Why are so many Dominican women prostitutes? Well, we can probably point to a number of social factors to answer that question.

First and foremost, the Dominican Republic suffers from a very high poverty rate. Over 25% of the Dominican population is said to be living below the poverty line. Educational standards are very low and the majority of people living in the campo (countryside) stop attending school at a young age. The adult literacy rate is a low 87.8 percent. For most, there is little or no opportunity. Unemployment is at a staggering 17% and many, who do have jobs, work for very low pay. There is also a very high rate of teenage pregnancy and fatherless families are extremely common. It is not surprising with so little opportunity and so little hope of future opportunity that many Dominican women turn to prostitution.

Interestingly, I wasn’t allowed to post the link to where the above quote came from,

Funny, Pat, I thought that the devil came down to Georgia.

I guess we will have to endure a whole group of “christians” explaining how Pat was right.

What a truly evil human being. If Christ returned tomorrow, preaching the message that he does in the Gospels, social conservatives like Pat Robertson would be at each other’s throats, fighting for the right to drive the first nail, just like their spiritual forefathers, the Pharisees.
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TNC has a good post about this: http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2010/01/professional_bigot_pat_robertson_does_it_again.php

“They said we will serve you if you’ll get us free from the French. True Story.”

You should know Pat, because apparently you were there.

Curious, were you Haitian or the Devil? “True Story”

May you burn in a fiery hell of your own making when you are finally banished from this mortal coil.

Why, did it take soooooooo long for god to smite these ignorant people, when obviously, Katrina’s retribution for abortion happened in a much a shorter period in god-time?

I’m sorry that we got Bush instead of this nut job. The rapture would be over, and we could get back to life without superstitious idiocy.

[...] Posted by Amy Sullivan Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at 4:16 pm 1 Comment • Trackback (0) Sigh. For years, I've been pleading with people to ignore Pat Robertson when he spouts off with his [...]

Of course Rush sees his Devil and raises it.

After earthquake, Rush says Haiti produces “zilch, zero, nada,” asks when Obama will call for Aristide to be returned

Limbaugh: Obama will use Haiti to boost credibility with “light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country”

Limbaugh: Obama discussed Haitian earthquake sooner than attempted Christmas bombing; “Did he apologize for America?”

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201001130022

Probably because “cleric” isn’t the term used for preacher in the Western Chrisitian tradition. Besides, you have the love the alliteration of something like “Radical Reverend.” Either way, the bat s h i t nature of Robertson’s assertion (and Robertson in general) deserves special callout.

Is he saying a whole country made a pact with the devil? The entire country? I wonder how they managed that, and who told Pat about it?

This “Act of God” seems indistinguishable from a natural process that’s even reasonably predictable:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/01/some-saw-it-coming.html

…like pretty much all the others, Pat.

Robertson is a senile old man who has done about as much damage as he can.
But….
I also posted Limbaughs comments on Amy’s comments.
Is there a more horrible human being than Limbaugh?
I am going to name call now:
He is a racist, xenophobic sexist, homophobic, bloviating thug.
And yes SZ, I am calling him a racist. Sometimes you have to speak up.

This is a tragedy of unknown proportions and something that demands compassion and action to aid Haiti. Pat Robertson is closer to the figure he describes than anyone living or dead in Haiti.

http://www.political-buzz.com/

I say we spite him by actually doing something constructive in response. NPR posted a handy list of easy ways to donate, including texting the state department for a quick $10 donation that would be attached to your phone bill.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/01/haiti_earthquake_how_to_help_a.html?sc=fb&cc=fp

[...] (0) • Related Topics: pat robertson, radical cleric Amy: Swampland commenter Trifecta55 has a proposal for how we should deal with this: Don't you mean "radical cleric" Pat Robertson Michael? . I am [...]

Robertson just can’t give up his media whoring and using tragedies to try to fill his coffers. It’s times like this that I wish there was a hell so that low-lifes like Pat had a place to go when they die.

And the right cynically says they wonder why minorities do not support them?

[...] people and all that they have lost, including family and friends and also sadness for people like Pat Robertson who feel the need to say things like “they got together and swore a pact to the Devil… [...]

Pat Robertson needs to go to Haiti & worship with the awesome Christians of Haiti.They have a trust & joy in our God that we, who have been there, covet. They have nothing in the way of material goods, yet they have something we so desperately long for. Those of us who have worked & worshiped with our friends in Haiti keep going back, not so much to help them, but so that they can help us…because their faith is so contageous.

[...] Pat Robertson Explains The Haiti Earthquake – Swampland – TIME.comPat Robertson, televangelist and former Republican candidate for president, explains why the earthquake happened in Haiti: A two-century old deal with the devil.

Plate tectonics are a so-called scientific theory designed to promote a radical, atheist view that God did not create the world 6,000 years ago. The next thing you’ll be saying is that Adam & Eve didn’t walk with dinosaurs & Fred Flintstone is a fictional character.

The Constant Weader at http://www.RealityChex.com

Has anyone noticed the glaring absence of the Right Wingers?
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I’m not wondering why…

“And yes SZ, I am calling him a racist. Sometimes you have to speak up.”
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Did you have a go-round with SZ over this?
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FYI, I have too, and he did help me to sharpen my criteria for saying that, since no one can ever actually know these people:
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If that individual’s actions (text, speech, etc) are indistinguishable from that of a racist, then that person is indistinguishable from a racist.
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To me, that observational definition is enough to justify it.
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I’ll say it too:
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Limbaugh is a racist.

Apperantly you’ve won the week, trifecta55!
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Congratulations on a great question! Thanks for opening up this can o’ worms!

Pat Robertson: religious idiot.

Rush Limbaugh: racist idiot.

Sorry gang, but there’s no cure for idiot, just as there is no such entity as the devil.

Not to worry, though. In two hundred years or possibly even sooner, religious superstition will be only a memory.

Just “Imagine”.

53 generally I agree with SZ, but when it comes to Rush there is just too much history. He has used his radio show to propogate his racism for years and is certainly “indistinguishable from that of a racist”.
Thanks for joining me in calling Limbaugh a racist.

After seeing an interview of the Haitian Ambassador being rightly offended by Pat Robertson’s comments, it became clear to me… Slavery.

Southern Conservatives can’t say it, but they really want to conserve “the way things were”, and whether at the forefront of their thinking or not, slavery was a way things were.

The Haitian Ambassador goes on to describe the revolt of slaves against their French oppressors, and how that action benefited the fledgling United States.

I’ll paste the link, but in the event it doesn’t work, you can go to the Huffington Post and look up Haitian Ambassador and/or Maddow.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/14/pat-robertson-haiti-react_n_423038.html

He did, under the name of Ralph Reed. Currently I think he’s going by the handle of Saxby Chambliss.

Rhetorically perhaps, who is watch the 700 Club to even hear what this moron is saying? That would be a painfull assignment! Organized religion is a root cause for much of the problems this planet faces. Hopefully we will evolve and smarten up over time. Fox, Limbaughs, Becks and most republicans cannot present any positive suggestions, they only know regressive complaining. Our world needs to progress, not regress.

I have a theory – Pat Robertson makes these outrageous comments during disasters for monetary reasons. If his “flock” is donating to Red Cross, UNICEF, etc., they are not donating to PAT ROBERTSON! Therefore, he discourages his “flock” from diverting money to other (more worthy) organizations.

It is ALL about money.

I can’t pass up a Lennon shout out.

Non-believers. Tsk. Tsk.

If we don’t go to Hell when we die…is Wal-Mart an option?

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