The only appropriate Pat Robertson obituary:

[demmiblue]

Link to tweet

Pat Robertson, the televangelist who ran for the Republican nomination for president in 1988, died on Thursday at the age of 93. The Christian Broadcasting Network, which Robertson founded in 1960, announced the news on Friday morning.

Robertson is widely credited with ushering Christian-conservatism into mainstream politics in the 1980s and 1990s, and laying the groundwork for the modern right-wing culture war. He has a history of extreme, bigoted commentary — including that gay people and abortion caused 9/11, that Haitians deserved the 2010 earthquake that ravaged the island nation, and that feminists are evil.

The 700 Club, Robertson’s long-running program on the CBN, was his most common platform for hate. In the days after 9/11, he brought on pastor Jerry Falwell to discuss the tragedy. “I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America, I point the finger in their face and say, ‘You helped this happen,'” Falwell said, to which Robertson said “I totally concur” and that the “agenda” has been adopted by the “highest levels of our government.”

Robertson’s bigotry toward gay people was boundless. He said on The 700 Club that he wished Facebook had a “vomit button” for when he came across a picture of gay people kissing, equated gay people with Nazis and Satanists, suggested God unleashed hurricanes and other natural disasters punishment for homosexuality. “I would warn Orlando that you’re right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don’t think I’d be waving those flags in God’s face if I were you,” he said of Disney World’s Gay Days. “It’ll bring about terrorist bombs; it’ll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/pat-robertson-dead-obituary-1234766208/

[Paladin]

1. That's damn sure how I'll remember the sick, hateful old fuck. (nt)

[GreenWave]

2. Some doggie dogs are getting ready

[Bluethroughu]

3. Robert Palmer came to mind, "feel the heat, burning you up"...

I'm not a religious person, but some people should be swimming in that lake under their flat earth.

The man was a devil.

[MayReasonRule]

5. Pat Robertson Was A Y'all Qaeda Fascist Republican Nazi

Nazis are evil by definition.

Pat Robertson was evil.

Here's to the demise of the 700 Club and all other organizations fueled by obscuring truth through delusion and instilling hatred throughout mankind.

[Bluethroughu]

33. It seemed a bit brighter in the world, and the birds are singing

A little louder and longer.

It's a wonderful day.

[MayReasonRule]

36. Laissez Bon Temps Rouler!!!

[KentuckyWoman]

4. Why was Pat

Using Facebook to surf gay porn? Someone should have given him a better website.

[musette_sf]

6. And croaked during Pride Month

[electric_blue68]

45. Heh!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

60. "Vengence is mine, saith the Lord"

It's a sign!

[GenXer47]

7. good riddance!

[FarPoint]

8. He was a bitter, nasty man...

These types tend to live long and they prosper on their delusional, unkind thinking.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

9. Disgusting, hate-filled bigot. Charlatan.

Could have done some good in the world, but worked actively instead to make it worse.

Glad he's gone.

[AllaN01Bear]

10. i still wish that the gov would have investigated him for line fraud .

[Takket]

11. Appropriate headline. The news should contain facts and honesty

Anything else is a lie

[William Seger]

12. He made "Christian conservative" synonymous with "reactionary bigot"

If the Jesus I learned about in Sunday School is waiting for him, he's in big trouble.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. K&R

[Probatim]

14. This reads like it was started a few years ago and revisited every time the author wanted to

pile on that vile old man.

It's every insult you wish you had thrown at an asshole but didn't think of during the argument. There won't be any regrets that something was missed upon its publication.

[jmowreader]

18. That's SOP for the famous

[Probatim]

19. I know that - but not many get this sort of treatment.

[ashredux]

15. Just like all of those guys, it was about the "Benjamins"

[Martin Eden]

24. Validating bigotry and hate is more profitable than preaching love and tolerance

Robertson was rewarded on earth with fame and fortune.

Evil charlatans like him almost make wish Hell exists, because he'd fry for eternity.

[Martin Eden]

25. His gospel of hate plus corporate greed

Are an unholy union which forms the core ideology of today's Republican Party.

[ZonkerHarris]

16. Good riddance

[Carlitos Brigante]

17. I'm sure he's looking up at all of us now......... nt

[Duppers]

26. Bingo! 😂

Good one.

I often wish there were a hell.

[Carlitos Brigante]

35. Almost makes me want to believe in it ;-P

[roamer65]

20. Good riddance.

[bagimin]

21. k& highly recommended

[NowISeetheLight]

22. Good Riddance

Have fun in Hell (if there is one) you hateful bigoted racist bastard.

[Xoan]

23. Friday morning isn't until tomorrow.

The Christian Broadcasting Network, which Robertson founded in 1960, announced the news on Friday morning.

[dflprincess]

27. I wonder if he's swimming in that lake of fire

He threatened everyone he didn't like with.

[JHB]

28. He also made daily contributions to conservative greivance culture and paranoia

A constant theme on his 700 Club was how persecuted Christians were, and how the dreaded Secular Humanists were just itching to round them up and put them all in concentration camps.

Including "dramatizations" where a model family (husband, wife, small boy and even smaller girl, white and blonde, for course), were being forced into a black van by armed men in black tactical gear. This was around the same time as the "black helicopters" paranoia.

[lostnfound]

29. Blood diamonds: Mr "Dances with dictators" owned mines

Mobuto Sete and Charles Taylor

[nolabear]

30. Here's the kind of guy he was.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/pat-robertsons-katrina-cash/

[Chi67]

31. To paraphrase Bette Davis....

My mother said to only say good things about the dead:

Pat Robertson is dead- GOOD.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

34. You beat me to it

[hunter]

32. When cable television channels were very limited, back in the days of 57 channels and nothing on...

... Pat Robertson gained control of one with his Christian Broadcasting Network.

When Robertson and his fellow freaks weren't spewing their Christian Coalition hatred they ran it as "The Family Channel."

When Disney eventually acquired the channel for $5.3 billion in 2001 it was with the stipulation that they would continue to broadcast Robertson's "700 Club" at a reasonable hour.

The whole normalization of these Christian fascists by the mass media is one of the reasons I quit cable television more than a decade ago, and it's one reason I will be celebrating when cable television finally dies.

I have nothing nice to say about Pat Robertson on the occasion of his death. If his spirit lives on, as he seemed to believe, I suspect he is now suffering the ultimate smack down for his crimes against humanity.

[3825-87867]

37. Pat Robertson...

The kind of guy you don't like at first but grow to hate.

[cab67]

38. Pat Robertson crossed the Rainbow Bridge.

[NowISeetheLight]

55. Yeah

And the dogs chased him back over.

[ShazzieB]

39. I guess it's true that some people live a long time because they're too mean to die.

Fortunately, like Pat, even the meanest ones succumb eventually!

[UTUSN]

40. K&R

[Marcuse]

41. An especially hot corner in hell for millionaire preachers.

[enigmania]

42. So glad he's dead

and that's it.

[AnyFunctioningAdult]

43. I will quote what Christopher Hitchens said

when Jerry Falwell died: "If you gave him an enema, he could be buried in a matchbox.

[Omnipresent]

63. ....

[P-Nutt]

44. So........

Some third rate schmuck, hiding behind a prayer book, died? Who cares?

[electric_blue68]

46. I care because he did a lot of damage. One less hater around.

[electric_blue68]

47. The RSO: Succinct, and TRUE! Hate filled sanctimonious man

[TomSlick]

48. May God have mercy on his soul, for I surely would not.

[Upthevibe]

49. Kick. N/T

[LetMyPeopleVote]

50. For this thread

Link to tweet

[Warpy]

51. He did more to destroy Christianity in the US than anyone else

through his consistently vicious rhetoric against anyone who wasn't a rich white straight male and pillar of his church.

He was first and foremost a businessman who wanted to escape paying taxes and found the religious grift full to the brim of willing marks.

May the grass on his grave be well fertilized by all who knew him.

[DinahMoeHum]

52. Found a haiku for Pat Robertson. . .

Jesus talks to Pat

"Matthew Seven, Twenty-Three

I NEVER KNEW YOU"

[keithbvadu2]

53. "...equated gay people with Nazis"... Now Nazis are republicans.

"...equated gay people with Nazis"... Now Nazis are republicans.

Like you, PR.

Do the math.

[turtleblossom]

56. Actually, Hitler was inspired by right-winged Americans like Pat Robertson.

Especially with the wiping out of Native Americans.

[turtleblossom]

54. He'll now have to explain to God why he spent his life spreading hate.

May God have the same mercy on him as he has had for the people whom he spent his lifetime hating.

[TallMike]

57. He was in the final analysis,

a simple, simple man.
I feel that a simple Fuck You, Fuck You again and dollop of good riddence you FUCK, is really all that is needed.

[TexasBushwhacker]

58. Nice of him to check out during Pride Month n/t

[DFW]

59. I can just see Robertson arriving before Saint Peter

Ummm, Pat, we have a problem with your entry application. For decades, you were telling people, « God told me this, » and , « God told me that, » when you knew not a word of it was true.

Robertson, smugly, « well, it’s too late to rectify any of that now, isn’t it? »

St. Peter: « We are relieved to hear that we all see it the same way. Tell Satan we said hi. NEXT! »

[leftyladyfrommo]

61. He was an awful man. nt

[The Jungle 1]

62. He did great harm to Christianity in America.

Because of this vile man a lot of fellow Americans look at Christians as evil.
His hate and bigotry was unlimited.

[calimary]

64. Buh-bye, Pat.