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Will some TV producer please give Pat Roberston his own reality show? Talk about boffo ratings.
March 21st, 2006 at 4:35 pmI thought that was the point of the 700 club?
March 21st, 2006 at 4:36 pmwow
ROBERTSON: They gamed it, these guys are out and out communists, they are radicals, you know some of them killers, and they are propagandists of the first order and they don’t want anybody else except them. That’s why Regent University for example is so terrifically important and why we’re setting up an undergraduate program that hopefully will see shortly 10,000 students, and then from there 250,000 because you don’t want your child to be brainwashed by these radicals, you just don’t want it to happen. Not only brainwashed but beat up, they beat these people up, cower them into submission. Ahhh! “The Professors”, read it
March 21st, 2006 at 4:38 pmWill some TV producer please give Pat Roberston his own reality show? Talk about boffo ratings.
Comment by Badmoodman — March 21, 2006 @ 4:35 pm
Let’s send him to the Playboy mansion and see what happens. ;)
March 21st, 2006 at 4:40 pmLike other Tele-Evangelists before him, this one will be remebered not for anything he may have said in his more lucid days, but for the ridiculous things he said as he slipped into senility…
…and there was nobody by his side compassionate enough, to pull the plug on him.
March 21st, 2006 at 4:42 pm…and there was nobody by his side compassionate enough, to pull the plug on him.
Comment by Dem02020 — March 21, 2006 @ 4:42 pm
That’s cause they’re the ones watching the train wreck for amusement. Everyone is fair game for the neocons’ personal delight.
March 21st, 2006 at 4:46 pmHorowitz had his opportunity to present his “free speech” case to Temple University (Jan 2006) regarding “liberal” professors and it was a disgrace….talk about a waste of time…One student came forward and presented what amounted to nothing as the student did not even file a compliant with the University against the “offending” professor…
….At a hearing on academic freedom at Temple University sponsored by a committee of the state legislature of Pennsylvania, Horowitz could find only one student to testify against “liberal” professors on campus; that testimony was purely anecdotal, as the student had not filed an official grievance with the university.
At a previous committee hearing, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, “Rep. Dan B. Frankel, a Democrat who is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Pittsburgh, [pointed out] that [since] the issue of potential political discrimination at state universities had received a considerable amount of publicity since the committee’s previous hearing three months ago… he might have expected students to come forward with complaints, but none have done so. ‘It seems to me we may be overblowing this problem,’ he said. ‘I don’t have streams of people coming to me.’”
full story below
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=20310
The right wing having already “won” with the abortion and gay marriage issues are now going after publically funded universities in its culture war battles…..their goal is introduce a right wing point of view on these campuses but it is really an effort to dumb down the populous under the guise of “balance”
March 21st, 2006 at 4:53 pm#4 – I’d rather see the cameras follow him around while he’s forced to march in every Gay Pride parade in the country.
March 21st, 2006 at 5:01 pm#4 – I’d rather see the cameras follow him around while he’s forced to march in every Gay Pride parade in the country.
Comment by Zookeeper — March 21, 2006 @ 5:01 pm
Perhaps he can do both… kind of a variety sort of thing…
March 21st, 2006 at 5:10 pmhttp://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=404872&date=2/28/2006
“There were 40 felons working in the University of Wisconsin System last fall, and most of them – including two convicted murderers – were employed by UW-Madison, according to a legislative audit released Tuesday.”
Apparently, some of them are killers!
March 21st, 2006 at 5:11 pmOK my turn , put him on the Real World , but Chapell style . Instead of six crazy white people and one black person …
March 21st, 2006 at 5:24 pmLike Bush&Co, this energizer dumb bunny keeps beating his drum, becoming more insane as time goes by. And also like Bush&Co, how many outrageous comments hand slanderous lies does P.R. have to spout from his pulpit before he is physically removed and carted off to a “rest home,” or in Bush’s case, a prison.
March 21st, 2006 at 5:30 pmMaybe Regent will offer a Conservative Arts degree, which would be the polar opposite of a Liberal Arts Degree. Since a Liberal Arts degree is a curricula design to teach the sudent a little bit about everything, CA degree should be awarded to students who have learned a lot about nothing.
March 21st, 2006 at 5:36 pmHe is a raving lunatic and no one should pay any attention to what he says!
March 21st, 2006 at 5:39 pm#9 Perhaps he can do both… kind of a variety sort of thing…
Comment by unbelievable — March 21, 2006 @ 5:10 pm
And for the musical portion of the show, he could sing “The Inquisition” from Mel Brooks’s “History of the World, Part I”.
Now that I just might consider paying to see.
March 21st, 2006 at 5:44 pm#13 Excellent idea! That’s just the kind of degree they want their students to have – one that proves they learned nothing! (As if the name “Regent University” on the diploma didn’t already prove that. I know this may be a silly question, but is Regent University accredited?)
March 21st, 2006 at 5:46 pmAnd don’t forget, Pat, everyone who supports the immoral war in Iraq is a killer too.
Dumb sh*t!
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March 21st, 2006 at 6:42 pmPat Robertson on College Professors: “you know some of them are killers!”
Pat Robertson had another one of his moments today on the 700 Club, while interviewing David Horowitz. I didn’t realize the amount of terror these termites are causing… http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/03/21.html#a7604
It looks like ReichWinger Pat Robertson has teamed up with the gang of ReichWing Thugs over at Campus watch determined to destroy education.
“I believe a few Reichwingers deserver honorable mention for their efforts to assist the Bush administration in removing the rights of Americans.
David Horowitz for his lifelong efforts to blacklist and destroy university professors. He’s been really busy lately with his new book.
Professors Beware! The David Horowitz Thought Police are on The Prowl! http://www.politicalcortex.com/story/2006/3/12/213331/807
Stanley Kurtz and his pals at Campus Watch , a contributor of ex-CIA man William F. Buckley Jr.’s bitterly anti-Arab National Review Online and a research fellow at the staunchly pro-Israel Hoover Institution; instrumental in the passing of anti first amendment legislation H.R. 3077
ACLU Letter to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Expressing Academic Freedom Concerns re: H.R. 3077, the International Studies in Higher Education Act of 2003 (2/13/2004) http://www.aclu.org/ / freespeech/ gen/ 10967leg20040213.html
Daniel Pipes, founder of the pro-Israel Middle East Forum and its affiliate, Campus Watch, an ADL-style organization that keeps tabs on college professors and students who are—or are suspected of being—critics of Israel. Daniel is a big supporter of Stanley Kurts and David Horowitz. Daniel was linked to the recent problems with Arabs in Denmark. Daniel denies any reponsibility or involvement and chalks it up as “conspiracy theory.†We might believe you Daniel but we know your agenda and the company you keep. Read Daniel’s desperate plea below:
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3405
These 3 reichwing amigos deserve honorable mention for their efforts to dismantle the constitution.
Comment by HonorableReichWingers — March 20, 2006 @ 9:51 am”
March 21st, 2006 at 6:43 pmRobertson IS Criminally insane. There is no greater and irrefutable evidence that he needs to be locked away in a padded cell wearing a strait-jacket.
March 21st, 2006 at 7:07 pmOK my turn , put him on the Real World , but Chapell style . Instead of six crazy white people and one black person …
Comment by Michdem — March 21, 2006 @ 5:24 pm
He should so a “Dante’s Inferno Variety” – with exposure to a different ’sin’ each week… Though, he’d probably drop dead after the first 5 minutes of any episode anyway…
If CBS or FOX actually airs this, we claim copyright!
March 21st, 2006 at 7:19 pmDenigrating college professors now – doesn’t that serve the purpose of pandering to those who neither desire nor are able to attend college. It encourages them to remain” down on the farm” in a manner of speech. And that is the base of his followers – believers who must be told what to think, are afraid or unable to think independently, and do as they’re told from his pulpit.
March 21st, 2006 at 7:34 pmCompiling lists of political opponents and dissenters is a fascistic tactic, and not very becoming of someone who claims to be a “man of God”.
Also, it is very interesting to hear Pat Robertson talking about “killers” in outrage when he was in business with one for years: Liberia’s strong man Charles Taylor, not to mention his ties to Zaire’s Mobutu Sese Seko.
Before Taylor, Robertson was in cahoots with the late brutal and rapacious dictator of Zaire, Mobutu Sese Seko, alias the “President of Kleptocracy.†Mobutu gave Robertson’s privately formed African Development Co. concessions to hunt for diamonds and gold in Zaire in the ’90s. That venture, alas, went bust.
Pat Robertson and His Business Buddies
Mr. Robertson’s motto: He might be an SOB, but at least he’s my SOB.
March 21st, 2006 at 9:17 pmYeah, I just thought it was kinda funny… Who says murderers can’t make good teachers anyway? That’s pretty bigotted, Mr. Robertson. Some of my best friends are murderers, in fact, and they’re very bright folks.
March 21st, 2006 at 11:32 pmBlow you up!
March 21st, 2006 at 11:44 pmBoom!! Bill Wont save You!!
Up Up BLOW ALL OF YEW
Hell Brimstone!! Blow up Blow up You!
San Francisco!! Bill Wont save You!!
Up Up BLOW ALL OF YEW
Hell Fire Blow up You!Bill Wont save You!!
Up Up BLOW ALL OF YEW
Hell Fire Brimstone Blow up Blow up You! –Pat Robertson
Pat Roberson; Jeery Lets Play Army!
Jeery Fallwell; Okay Pat, ol pal. whut you want me to do?
Pat Roberson; Why I am gonna lay down here on the grass..and ,,,and,,
Jeery Fallwell; and, and whut?
Pat Roberson; The you come along and BLOW ME UP!!
Jeery Fallwell; Why That won’t never work Pat. Sheet aint inflatable.
March 21st, 2006 at 11:49 pmI look around all the time attempting to gain information on just about any view point possible however when it comes Jerry Fallwell and Pat Robertons I just can’t describe how upsetting it is to see that a nation founded on the principle of freedom of speech if listening and in some cases believing the words which these two religiously-political figures are vocalizing. However, even though there actions tend to be reported sometimes their actions fall on deaf ears.
What I am talking about is their actions of ignoring the freedom of speech while masking it behind the idea of a private college campus and their personal interpretation of the bible. Just recently Soulforce an organization which has launched a national bus tour called Equality Ride with the purpose of seven-week bus tour from New York to Los Angeles to confront nineteen religious schools and military academies that ban the enrollment of GLBT students. However, Regent Univerity, Liberty University, and Oral Roberts University have all placed the bus tour under arrest. For me it questions maybe things about our country however is arrest the correct action or should these universities be accepting and tolerant while still holding their personal views after all they are campus’s in the United States and not a nation witin a nation those are called indian reservations.
March 22nd, 2006 at 12:18 amBook Burning: A True Christian® Tradition
“The burning of books is nothing new to True Christians®. We invented the practice over two-thousand years ago as a way to promote our faith in the Lord Jesus. In the early days of Christianity, when new believers in Christ were converted, they were naturally moved by the Holy Spirit to grab as many books as they could and pitch them into a fire. Unlike the sissy “Jesus is Love” fake-Christians (whom both the Lord Jesus and we loathe) we have running around today, the early followers of Christ were never ashamed to burn books. In fact, if you ever find yourself being grateful for the destruction of most of the works of pagan nincompoops like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, you have a Christian to thank! In the Book of Acts we learn that anyone who wants to follow Jesus, should get ready to start burning books at the drop of a hat. The Book of Acts teaches us that burning someone’s books is a great way spread God’s word.”
http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news1002/bookburning.html
“Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together and burned them before all men and they counted the price of them and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.” Acts 19:19-20
March 22nd, 2006 at 4:37 amNazi Book Burning
One way the Nazis cleansed the country of “un-German” thoughts was through censorship. A “brown shirt” (member of the SA) throws some more fuel–”un-German” books– into a roaring fire on the Opernplatz in Berlin. May 10, 1933.
March 22nd, 2006 at 4:41 amPhoto credit: USHMM Photo Archives
Rev. Robertson is brilliant. The easiest way to get 10000s of kids to enroll in his pet university is to trash as many other colleges as possible. What better way to stop kids from going anywhere else! At Regent, one doesn’t have cower in fear from Satanically controlled, murdering communist brainwashers. One does, however, have to confront the reality of not knowing a damn thing about anything upon graduation, but hey, Jesus will fill in the blanks. Just keep the money coming.
March 22nd, 2006 at 4:42 amThe Next Republican Purge:
Newt Gingrich Proposes Firing Dissident Professors
“…as part of his platform as a presidential candidate in 2008, Newt Gingrich has proposed eliminating tenure for university professors, and making their continued employment contingent upon support for Bush Administration policies. That’s right – Gingrich is encouraging Congress to pass a law to fire professors for being “anti-American”. No, I’m not making this up. It comes straight from the mouth of Gingrich, who has proposed a bill that tells professors “proof that you’re anti-American is grounds for dismissal.”
http://www.irregulartimes.com/gingrichperfessers.html
March 22nd, 2006 at 4:49 amRev. Pat’s definition of ‘murderer’ includes women who have had abortions and doctors/nurses who have performed or enabled those procedures. I wouldn’t be too worried about your safety if that’s the case. Regent University schedules classes not in semesters, but trimesters.
March 22nd, 2006 at 5:06 amThe Right-Wing Stealth Attack at Columbia University
Watch what you say—or else
by the New York City Writers Group
Revolutionary Worker #1268, February 20, 2005, posted at rwor.org
“There is a growing sense of siege on university campuses around the country.”
Joan Wallach Scott, professor of social science, Institute for Advanced Study; speaking at a panel discussion,
“Defending Academic Freedom in an Atmosphere of Terror,” Feb. 9, 2005
Assault on Dissent and Critical Thinking
Right-wing moves against intellectuals are not confined solely to universities. Scientists and others are being forced—under the threat of withholding of federal funding or investigation/audit by the state—to censor their work and even cease the kind of work they need to do. And this goes hand-in-hand with the whole assault on questioning, critical thinking, and dissent throughout the nation. (See the article in this issue of the RW about the attacks on Ward Churchill, a professor at University of Colorado.)
Dark Ages in the U.S.
“To me, these are Dark Ages. This is not the United States I moved into in 1976. I don’t recognize it. I’m in sort of moral shock.”
Columbia Professor Hamid Dabashi, New York Times , Jan. 18, 2005
http://rwor.org/a/1268/columbia-university-right-wing.htm
March 22nd, 2006 at 5:17 amPat Robertson on College Professors: “you know some of them are killers!â€
May 10, 1933 – An event unseen since the Middle Ages occurs as German students from universities formerly regarded as among the finest in the world, gather in Berlin and other German cities to burn books with “unGerman” ideas. Books by Freud, Einstein, Thomas Mann, Jack London, H.G. Wells and many others go up in flames as they give the Nazi salute.
In Berlin, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels gave a speech to the students, stating…
“…The era of extreme Jewish intellectualism is now at an end. The breakthrough of the German revolution has again cleared the way on the German path…The future German man will not just be a man of books, but a man of character. It is to this end that we want to educate you. As a young person, to already have the courage to face the pitiless glare, to overcome the fear of death, and to regain respect for death – this is the task of this young generation. And thus you do well in this midnight hour to commit to the flames the evil spirit of the past. This is a strong, great and symbolic deed – a deed which should document the following for the world to know – Here the intellectual foundation of the November (Democratic) Republic is sinking to the ground, but from this wreckage the phoenix of a new spirit will triumphantly rise…”
The speech and book burning were accompanied by the singing of Nazi songs and anthems.
Over a hundred years earlier, the German-Jewish poet, Heinrich Heine, had stated, “Where books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.”
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/bookburn.htm
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and World War II began. Within weeks, the Polish army was defeated, and the Nazis began their campaign to destroy Polish culture and enslave the Polish people, whom they viewed as “subhuman.” Killing Polish leaders was the first step: German soldiers carried out the massacres of university professors, artists, writers, politicians, and many Catholic priests.
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/history_community/Modern/Overview_The_Story_19141948/The_Holocaust/193945.htm
March 22nd, 2006 at 5:28 amIt’s not the message, its the messenger. For instance:
Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
March 22nd, 2006 at 8:37 amPat Robertson
THE BIBLE SAYS SATAN WILL COME IN THE FORM OF A MAN OF GOD.
THAT’S PAT ROBERTSON. HE’S SATAN.
March 22nd, 2006 at 8:37 amAND, BY THE WAY, ROBERTSON STILL HAS TONS OF FOLLOWERS–MOST OF WHOM ARE CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN HATERS, LIKE OUR BIGOTED, STUPID, VENGEFUL PRESIDENT.
March 22nd, 2006 at 8:39 amPoor Pat!
…he doesn’t look well…
…guess he’s packing his bags…
…they’re holding that reservation for him…
…in hell…
March 22nd, 2006 at 9:22 amLet’s send Pat Robertson to Venezuala.
March 22nd, 2006 at 9:24 amI’m sure Hugo & the boys would take good
care of him.
The neocons have such wonderful representatives, don’t they? The hate mongers have taken over the republican party and the moderates should be ashamed of associating themselves with hate mongers who use religion to further their own selfish goals.
How Robertson can smile and damn near giggle while telling Americans that God will punish them is pure evil. I’m not into organized religion so it doesn’t affect me. I do wonder how some can be swayed by someone so obviously NOT a missionary of anything Godlike or good in any way. Then I remember Jim Jones and am once again mortified.
For the religious, I don’t think it’s God talking to them through Pat. I think it’s the guy in the red suit with horns and a pitchfork. Doesn’t he have a gotee too? Or is that the guy on the deviled ham can? I get them confused.
March 22nd, 2006 at 9:32 amWant an informed opinion re: college professors? Ask a stupid person!
Not only stupid, but proud of it.
March 22nd, 2006 at 10:24 amMy chief memory of Pat Robertson is him gloating when New Orleans was hit by Katrina. He called it, if I remember correctly, God’s punishment for Ellen Degeneres hosting the Emmy Awards.
March 22nd, 2006 at 10:41 amprogressive and proud, your “For the religious, I don’t think it’s God talking to them through Pat. I think it’s the guy in the red suit with horns and a pitchfork. Doesn’t he have a gotee too? Or is that the guy on the deviled ham can? I get them confused.”
Naah, it’s “Chuck,” the mascot of the FreeBSD operating system:
http://www.osnews.com/img/chuck2.jpg
Can’t you just smell the evil?
March 22nd, 2006 at 10:44 amI wouldn’t have guessed it. I’m trying to figure out where to go with the green tennis shoes….
March 22nd, 2006 at 11:12 amSame thing said in the comments over at crooksandliars.com:
Robertson is likely referring to University of Arizona psychology professor Robert Bechtel who confessed to his students last year during a class that he had murdered a classmate while attending Swarthmore College in 1955. He was arrested, found incurably insane, then released from the asylum, tried for the murder, then acquitted. He went on to finish school, work on Biosphere, etc. etc.
Technically, yes, he is a “killer” and a “professor.” So in this case, Robertson is factually correct (if Bechtel is the prof he is referring to).
Google up “robert bechtel” and “confession” and you’ll find articles about this.
March 22nd, 2006 at 11:31 amHorowitz: “There are 50,000 professors … [who] identify with the terrorists”
On the March 2 edition of MSNBC’s Scarborough Country, right-wing activist David Horowitz claimed that “[t]here are 50,000 professors” who are “anti-American” and “identify with the terrorists.” Horowitz, the president of Students for Academic Freedom and a proponent of an “Academic Bill of Rights” for American universities, is the author of The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America (Regnery, January 2006).
(see full interview): http://mediamatters.org/items/200603030013
March 22nd, 2006 at 12:16 pmIn that case he should support them – hasn’t he been advocating killing people?
March 22nd, 2006 at 2:18 pmCampus Crusader
Before 9/11, David Horowitz attacked political correctness on college campuses across the country. These days, under the rubric of academic freedom, bands of Horowistas are waging a vigorous ground war against liberal academics
Florida Governor Jeb Bush has called him a “fighter for freedom.”
Not only has David Horowitz garnered significant financial support from a host of conservative foundations (see the list of 137 grants totaling more than $13 million the Center has received since 1989, including nearly $1 million in 2003 http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipientgrants.php?recipientID=63 ), he has also received intellectual support from conservative critics funded by the same philanthropies.
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, with questions surfacing about the nature of the terrorist attacks, Horowitz went back to the campuses and launched a preemptive strike against dissent. His new advertisements warned students “not to join an ‘antiwar’ effort against America’s coming battle with international terrorism,” suggesting that they “think again” before making such a move
http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=69
March 22nd, 2006 at 4:06 pm“…Pat Robertson, one of Horowitz’s natural allies”
“Truly, Horowitz’s latest endeavor is a sight to behold—an exercise in massive right-wing paranoia and vindictiveness”
http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/nimmo02152005/
March 22nd, 2006 at 4:21 pmThe Barbarian Republicans are attempting to repeat history
“The Dark Ages
March 26th, 2006 at 7:08 amEarly scholars gave the name “Dark Ages” to the period in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. During this period, barbarian Goths, Vandals, and Huns swept down on Europe from the north and east. They destroyed many fine buildings and works of art that had existed during Roman times. During the Dark Ages, knowledge survived only in monasteries, and there were very few schools. Many of the old arts and crafts were lost. This is why the time was called the “Dark Ages.”
http://mr_sedivy.tripod.com/med_hist.html