God Strikes Down Pat Robertson For What He Said About Gays, Hurricanes, 9/11, Haiti, Orphans ...

[Nevilledog]

https://www.wonkette.com/god-strikes-down-pat-robertson

I didn't realize until I started writing this Wonkette Remembrance that Pat Robertson and I share the same unused first name that John Wayne also didn't use, although I knew about John Wayne of course. Born Marion Gordon Robertson in 1930, the one-time GOP presidential candidate, televangelist, and culture wars hatemonger died today at the age of 93. Maybe he went straight to Heaven, which is a depressing thought, or to hell for all the people he focused rightwing hate on. Or maybe his brain shut down and that was that, which strikes us as most likely, if narratively unsatisfying. So it goes.

As Moms Mabley said of her ex-husband, "I was always taught never to say anything about the dead unless it’s good. He’s dead. Good." (Nope, not Bette Davis speaking of Joan Crawford. Everything you think you know is a lie.)

You can go elsewhere for the sober discussions of Robertson's business and media acumen, because we think his real genius was for saying inflammatory stuff that blamed all of the world's ills on women, gay people, abortion, and liberals in general, linking religious fervor with politics and generally enshittening America. He had a knack for making political disagreements not mere matters of policy, but of framing them as a literal spiritual battle, with Democrats inevitably on the side of Satan. He wasn't the first to do that, but it really was his bread and butter.

He infamously declared in a 1992 fundraising letter prior to an Iowa vote on the Equal Rights Amendment that

"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."

*snip*

[LakeArenal]

1. Buh-bye you terrible awful gross creation.

[jimfields33]

12. He's 93. Lol. He lived longer then most.

[LakeArenal]

17. Hope he is the exception.

[Chellee]

2. And here we all thought that the red glow in the sky was Canadian wildfires.

Turns out it was hell burning a little brighter as they welcomed one of their own, home.

[Lucinda]

3. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

I need to check youtube for moms clips!
Loved her

[malaise]

4. Nah - that took way too long

That is all

[malaise]

7. Ah well

Opps - wrong place

[Wounded Bear]

5. If it was god, he's about 60 years too late to do any good...nt

[Dios Mio]

10. Yep. god has a sick sense of humour.

[musette_sf]

6. I did read something about him today

in the WaPo obit that was quite a surprise to me: in the 1950s, he lived in Staten Island and worked to support Adlai Stevenson’s campaign.

[dflprincess]

13. That was before he figured out his much he count make selling Jesus. Nt

[underpants]

8. Disgusting POS

[Aristus]

9. God is waiting in the correction room.

And is He pissed!

[70sEraVet]

11. Great obit, Nevilledog.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

14. kick

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. For this thread

Link to tweet

[leftyladyfrommo]

16. God would probably rather you left him out of this

discussion.