Some of Pat Robertson's Greatest Hits...

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N23560420.htm

We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability," Robertson said of Chavez in Monday's broadcast of "The 700 Club." "We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with."

Robertson once declared that feminism "encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."

Among his other notable quotations:

-- "If they look over the course of 100 years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings," he said in May of this year in response to a question during an ABC interview about whether activist judges were more of a threat to the United States than terrorists.

-- "Maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up," he said in criticism of the State Department during a "700 Club" interview in October 2003.

-- "It's clear from the teachings of the Koran and also from the history of Islam that it's anything but peaceful," Robertson said in 2002. "Of course there are peace-loving Muslims. But at the same time, at the core of this religion ... is jihad, and it is to subject the unbelievers either to forced conversion or death. That's what it teaches."

[Zuni]

1. I can't believe we haven't made these more public

[Telly Savalas]

7. They don't really need to be.

Anybody who's listened to the guy for more than 5 minutes knows good ole Pat is missing a few beads from the Rosary. On a couple of occasions channel-surfing, I've watched him and the What-the-hell-is-this-guy-talking-about meter on my television had a constant reading of 9 the whole time he spoke. When he makes comments like the ones in the OP or the Chavez statement, it just spikes up to 10 for a second.

[Zuni]

10. There is no question the guy is a few sandwiches short of a picnic

but he often says surprisingly revolting things

[ironman202]

13. a few beans shy of a burrito?

[rkc3]

2. If he didn't get sanctioned for the Foggy Bottom comment, my

guess is that he won't hear anything about assassinating a foreign head of state - shit he might get a medal of freedom fo dumbya.

[Submariner]

3. I get a kick out his story that he spoke to Jesus on the shore of Galilee

He said he was walking alone (of course) on the beach when Jesus appeared to him and they shot the shit for awhile. I forget what was said...my brain may have been exploding at the time.

And on edit: Does anyone have the 700 Club video of Patty boy "speaking in tongues"? Now that was a sight to see.

[Double T]

4. Robertson is a CRACKPOT!!!!

[kwolf68]

5. What about the one

About 9/11 being caused by gays? Or was that Falwell? These radical clerics all look alike to me.

I seem to recall Pat saying God allowed 9/11 to happen because we were accepting of gay/lesbian lifestyle.

[Telly Savalas]

9. I think that was Falwell.

My favorite Robertsonism was back in the 1988 Republican primaries when during one the debates he said that Cuba had nuclear missiles pointed at the U.S. The rest of the candidates were looking at each other in confusion ("wait a minute. did I not get the memo!?!?") while Pat maintained that stupid shit-eating grin.

[ghostsofgiants]

11. That was Falwell...

"And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. 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.'"

But he said it on an episode of The 700 Club, so that's probably why you were thinking it was Robertson.

[ironman202]

14. i refuse to believe that the omniscient all-powerful omnipresent

creator of the universe requires the saccarine praise of his creatures, and that in the absense of this flattery, he gets petulant. Besides, if this is his best work, I've gotta say, I'm not impressed. War, death, pestilence, famine, Rush Limbaugh, the whoile panoply of human suffering... This is not work that belongs on the resume of any god I'm willing to follow. I say if he was being evaluated by one of those criminal corporations he's made us all the slave of, he would have been out on his all-powerful ass a long time ago.

[ghostsofgiants]

16. Couldn't agree more

That's why I drifted away from religion a long time ago.

[Booster]

17. As I've posted before, Robertson is the reason I no longer

believe there is a God. If there were, Robertson would have had a bolt of lightening right between the eyes years ago. What more proof do people need.

[King Coal]

6. You guys just don't get it.

"It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with."

It worked for Jim Jones, it can work for us.

[mzteris]

8. don't forget these

"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." -- Pat Robertson, fundraising letter, 1992


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"You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to them."--Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, January 14, 1991


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Robertson announced that God told him, "I will remove judges from the Supreme Court quickly, and their successors will refuse to sanction the attacks on religious faith."

STEPHANOPOULOS: But, sir, you have described this in pretty -- this whole battle in pretty apocalyptic terms. You've said that liberals are engaged in an all-out assault on Christianity, that Democrats will appoint judges who don't share our Christian values and will dismantle Christian culture. And that the out-of-control judiciary -- and this was in your last book, Courting Disaster -- is the most serious threat America has faced in nearly 400 years of history, more serious than Al Qaeda, more serious than Nazi Germany and Japan, more serious than the Civil War?


ROBERTSON: George, I really believe that. I think they are destroying the fabric that holds our nation together. There is an assault on marriage. There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war. And on top of that, if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.His democracy does not resemble our Earth democracy.


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JERRY FALWELL: And I agree totally with you that the Lord has protected us so wonderfully these 225 years. And since 1812, this is the first time that we've been attacked on our soil and by far the worst results. And I fear, as Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defense, said yesterday, that this is only the beginning. And with biological warfare available to these monsters -- the Husseins, the Bin Ladens, the Arafats -- what we saw on Tuesday, as terrible as it is, could be miniscule if, in fact -- if, in fact -- God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.

PAT ROBERTSON: Jerry, that's my feeling. I think we've just seen the antechamber to terror. We haven't even begun to see what they can do to the major population.

JERRY FALWELL: The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this.

PAT ROBERTSON: Well yes.

JERRY FALWELL: And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. 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."

PAT ROBERTSON: Well, I totally concur, and the problem is we have adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government. And so we're responsible as a free society for what the top people do. And, the top people, of course, is the court system..

JERRY FALWELL: Pat, did you notice yesterday the ACLU and all the Christ-haters, People For the American Way, NOW, etc. were totally disregarded by the Democrats and the Republicans in both houses of Congress as they went out on the steps and called out on to God in prayer and sang "God Bless America" and said "let the ACLU be hanged". In other words, when the nation is on its knees, the only normal and natural and spiritual thing to do is what we ought to be doing all the time - calling upon God. ~~~

PAT ROBERTSON: > Amen I wanted to ask you the reaction. I know that you had a major prayer meeting last night, and I know your people assembled, just a large gathering at your church. What was the mood of the people? What did they say and what did you sense with your congregation?

Jerry Falwell: A brokenness that I have not seen. I've been their pastor 45 years, 30 years Chancellor at Liberty. We had 7,000 gather yesterday in the Vines Center and filled the Church last night. I sensed a brokenness, tears. People were sobbing at the alter. And, they have no shame about it. It was the kind of brokenness that no one could conjure, only God could bring upon us. And, that is to me the most optimistic thing that I see today as I look across America. And every city, I called a friend in Springfield yesterday. He said at least a hundred churches, Springfield, Missouri, at least a hundred churches have special prayer meetings for America today and tonight. And, that's happening by the thousands all over America. This could be, if we will fast and pray, this could be God's call to revival.

Pat Robertson: Well, I believe it. And I think the people, the Bible says render your hearts and not your garments, and people begin to render their hearts and they weep before the Lord, and they really get serious with God, God will hear and answer. We'll see revival. I am thrilled to hear that about your church because it's happening all over.

Jerry Falwell: It's everywhere.

Pat Robertson: Yes.

Jerry Falwell: In the most unlikely of places. The general manager at the ABC affiliate in our area called me this morning and said, "We're going to ask for all the churches, all the people of faith to join us at the D-Day Memorial over in Bedford at 2:00, Sunday." And, Randy Smith is his name, the general manager, and he is calling central Virginia to healing through prayer and I suspect there will be thousands there.

Pat Robertson: Jerry, this is so encouraging, and I thank God for your stand. We just love you and praise God for you. Liberty is a great institution and I congratulate you for that wonderful student body, and your church. And, thank you my dear friend for being with us.

Jerry Falwell: God bless you brother. Let's stand together.

Pat Robertson: Amen

[grumpy old fart]

12. The American Mullahs speak !

Imagine all the people who actually follow these idiots. Just frightening...

[Touchdown]

15. You forgot Orlando.

Responding to Orlando's "Gay Days" celebration, and the fact that Disney actually allows *GASP!* gay people to pay and enter their amusement parks...

"I don't think I'd be waving those flags in God's face if I were you. ... condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs, it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor."

EDIT: it was said by Robertson in 1998.