Pat Robertson threatens ‘nasty’ progressive group with ‘full-scale exposé’

[ErikJ]

Pat Robertson threatens ‘nasty’ progressive group with ‘full-scale exposé’

Television preacher and one-time Republican presidential candidate Pat Robertson warned on his “700 Club” show Tuesday that he’s inclined to run a “full-scale exposé” on a web publication that he refused to identify, calling them a “nasty group” that focuses on “embarrassing conservatives” who appear on television.

There are only two groups he could be talking about: Media Matters and Right Wing Watch, both of which specialize in video clips of conservatives saying untrue, insensitive or otherwise appalling things. Given his status as America’s premiere television soothsayer, Robertson’s show is a frequent stop for both groups, but only one of them recently caused a stir at Robertson’s network.

Right Wing Watch, a project of People for the American Way (PFAW), recently clipped Robertson saying something not so original for him, but always alarming when he repeats it. On a recent episode, he told a female viewer that her husband had an affair because she had not done enough to keep his attention, adding that she should focus on all the nice things he does for her instead, like letting her live in his house or giving her food and clothing.

Despite Robertson’s insistence, Right Wing Watch quoted him accurately and completely in context. “This organization misconstrues deliberately, they want to do everything they can do to make my words and they twist them,” he complained. “I will not identify the organization but one day we may have a full-scale exposé because it’s a nasty group.”

“Pat Robertson doesn’t understand how ridiculous and extreme he sounds to a mainstream audience,” Josh Glasstetter, PFAW’s research director, told Raw Story in an email. “For decades, he’s lived inside the bubble of the Christian Broadcasting Network. Right Wing Watch faithfully reports Robertson’s comments and provides appropriate context. There’s no need to ‘twist and distort’ his words to make them sound crazy or offensive. They are inherently both.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/28/pat-robertson-threatens-nasty-progressive-group-with-full-scale-expose/

[Turbineguy]

1. That's right Pat!

Show them your dick.

[muntrv]

2. He'll want to bring a magnifying glass with it.

[The Magistrate]

3. It Is Just So Horribly Unfair, Sir, How They Quote Him Verbatim, Accurately

[SomethingFishy]

6. +1.. I had the same thought..

What are they going to expose? How they report peoples own words?

[Kurovski]

4. What a sad sack'o crap.

Even the folks he works with find him tedious.

Please retire and enjoy them millions Jesus "blessed" you with, 'ya past-date fruitcake.

[Lint Head]

5. That's why I've laughed at lying fuckers like him since forever. He is reality TV comedy gold.

[Douglas Carpenter]

7. as awful as Pat Robertson's word's are - within his world they are common pearls of wisdom

Right-wing fundamentalist do live in an alternative universe that they think is the normal world while thinking the world that is not their world is a scary, confused and sick world.

Until the late 70's or so fundamentalist were usually relatively apolitical and they sent their kids to the same public schools as everyone else. They read, watched or listened to the same news as everyone else. They largely read the same books as everyone else and took vacations to the same places as everyone else. Most mixed their lives between the fundamentalist world and the outside world. Since the late 70's they have created their own worlds with their own schools or home schools, their own books, newspapers, radio stations and TV networks. The outside world has become increasingly bizarre to them. They really are genuinely stunned and confused when the outside finds their statements nurtured by isolation to be a bit shocking. They really can no longer relate to the godless world around them. AS Frank Schaeffer ex-fundamentalist preacher who along with his father Francis Schaeffer who help created this vast counterculture described it, "they have become the fifth column of the insane."

[Rex]

8. Pat lives in Christian Disney Land, how could he understand reality as we all know it?

Pat, I hear God is calling you home - pack lightly.

[niyad]

9. "MAY" being the operative word in that load of codswallop.

[edbermac]

10. I hope it's DU!

[LeftofObama]

11. Please proceed, Pat!