Hah-ha-ha! hateful Pat Robertson gets the boot!

[SushiFan]

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060302144009990003&ncid=NWS00010000000001

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (March 2) - Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson, criticized by some evangelicals for comments about Venezuela's president and Israel's prime minister, lost a bid for re-election to the National Religious Broadcasters' board of directors. Robertson, founder of the Virginia Beach-based Christian Broadcasting Network, was one of 38 candidates for 33 board seats during the NRB's recent convention. The group represents mostly evangelical radio and TV broadcasters.

NRB President Frank Wright said there was no broad effort to distance the group from Robertson. But "there was broad dismay with some of Pat's comments and a feeling they were not helpful to Christian broadcasters in general," he said in Wednesday's Washington Post.

In the past few months, Robertson suggested that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez should be assassinated and that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine punishment for pulling out of the Gaza Strip.

A Robertson spokeswoman said Thursday that he had been a board member for 30 years but attended only one board meeting "due to his extensive schedule." "It was amicable and expected that he would not continue to serve" on the board, spokeswoman Angell Watts said in a statement.

Robertson has had a close relationship with the NRB, which named him Christian Broadcaster of the Year in 1989. The network's latest tax statement shows that CBN donated $161,300 to the NRB in 2004-05, The Virginian-Pilot newspaper of Norfolk reported Thursday. Among the successful candidates for the board was Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the Washington-based American Center for Law and Justice, a nonprofit group founded by Robertson. Also on the NRB board is Michael D. Little, CBN president.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Sweet! His own turned him away

[Richard Steele]

2. He only attended ONE board meeting in 30 years!

"Due to his extensive schedule", they say.

Yeah, diverting charity money to buy mining equipment
for a diamond mine you co-own with a brutal dictator
just takes up time, dunnit?

[chaplainM]

8. You owe Rev. Robertson an apology

He didn't co-own a diamond mine with a brutal dictator.

He co-owned a gold mine with a brutal dictator/war criminal.

[Richard Steele]

9. I stand corrected, sir.

Imagine how ashamed I feel for having made such
baseless claims about the good Rev. Robertson!

And welcome to DU!:hi:

[TAPat]

3. Guess he'll have more time...

to spew more hate around :loveya:

[LisaLynne]

10. Spewing hate is hard work!

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[TAPat]

16. Took me a while,

but Thank You!
:loveya:

[joefree1]

4. The Gods are punishing him

First they made him a fool now they're making him a scorned fool.

[Warpy]

5. I think he's senile

He's been shooting his mouth off, has denied it shortly afterwards, and has seemed genuinely dismayed to see himself on tape shooting his mouth off.

Time to retire, Pat, and find a place to hang out and tell everybody what a big shot you used to be.

[SushiFan]

6. Maybe he has untreated syphillis dementia?? COULD be! nt

[Swede]

7. He's always been a hateful man.

Senility has nothing to do with it.

[noonwitch]

11. The same comments he makes now about Chavez, he made about Khaddafi

in the 80s. He said Khaddafi was a "mad dog" and mad dogs need to be taken out, or words to that effect.

[BR_Parkway]

12. Awwww, did his wingnut comments expose them and cut into money

flowing into the Temples of the Pharisees? Tough Shit - distance all they want, they still own him

[SushiFan]

17. That is VERY TRUE.. He'll be a GOPig all his life, no matter what nt

[Just Me]

13. Divine justice?

:rofl:

[SushiFan]

18. Do you really mean 'Satanic' Justice? eom

[harpo]

14. a small piece of justice is done

[eppur_se_muova]

15. But two of his minions are on the board now. And if he never...

attended meetings anyway, does this make any difference, except as bragging points?

[SushiFan]

19. Nope, 'reborn',always 'reborn'. A leapord don't change its spots nt

[eppur_se_muova]

20. And we all know the Lord is a shoving leopard. nt