i just now figured out pat robertson.....

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.....he's a comedian! he's funny as hell.

[rurallib]

1. Typical Repub humor - someone dies or something gets destroyed.

[whistle]

2. What comedy shtick did Robertson do this time?

[Gato Moteado]

3. nothing in particular

it just came to me

[stillcool]

4. but is he human, animal, or reptilian?

or just republican...

http://www.innercitypress.org/patrobbs.html

May 14, 1999

Bank of Scotland has proposed, along with Pat Robertson, to open a bank in the United States, putting its only office in Stamford, Connecticut, but soliciting deposits nationwide by telephone and Internet. The application, made to the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and subject to public comment, raises many troubling issues, which are discussed below in ICP’s comment letter, filed May 14 with the OCC.

June 4, 1999

For two days now, it has been reported that the Bank of Scotland is preparing to break off its deal with Pat Robertson and “Robertson Financial Services.” Bank of Scotland officials are flying across the Atlantic to meet with Pat Robertson in Boston today. Apparently decisive to Bank of Scotland was Pat Robertson’s diatribe against Scotland itself, on the 700 Club television show on May 18: “You can’t believe how strong the homosexuals are. It’s just simply unbelievable... You can go back into darkness very easily.” Once reported, Robertson’s statements led to an increase in the number of Scottish institutions planning to withdraw their accounts from the Bank of Scotland

June 7, 1999

Late on June 4, the Bank of Scotland finally called off its banking joint venture with Pat Robertson. Inner City Press has not yet learned if Bank of Scotland will be (and it should) withdrawing its bank charter application to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Bank of Scotland’s application, which ICP has been commented to the OCC against since March, was predicated on using Pat Robertson to do outreach for the bank. Robertson was to have owned 25% of the bank. While Bank of Scotland now says it is trying to find another partner, it cannot continue to pursue a generic bank charter. Bank of Scotland should withdraw its application to the OCC. At some future date, Bank of Scotland is free to come up with a new plan, perhaps a new partner, and re-apply to the OCC. Applications for U.S.-wide telebanks, which seek to limit their Community Reinvestment Act duties to a single town (as Bank of Scotland has) remain of concern.

On June 4, the Scottish Daily Record reported that Pat Robertson would receive a break-up fee up to 10 million pounds. This has not been confirmed -- the OCC has kept confidential, at the bank’s request, most of the bank’s application. Sunday’s London Independent recounts ICP’s attempts to get access to this information under the Freedom of Information Act, in order to prepare its comments, and reports: “A spokesman for the U.S. Comptroller’s office declined to characterize the degree of secrecy involved in New Foundation Bank’s application. ‘Every application is unique,’ he said.”

Unique, indeed. Somehow, the Bank of Scotland failed to check out its business partner before committing to a break up fee. Robertson, once the Scottish press began asking questions, went on his 700 Club TV show and declared Scotland a land of darkness, where “homosexuals” are incredibly powerful. The problems in Scotland (and Europe), according to Robertson, is “too much tolerance.” (A number of ICP’s Scottish sources found this comment particularly amusing). Now, key shareholders of Laura Ashley, to whose board of director Robertson was appointed in January, are seeking to oust him from that board. The fashion designer’s daughter Jane says her mother, who died in 1985, would have been “appalled” that Robertson is part of the company she founded. Robertson’s support on the board is Ashley’s largest shareholder, Malayan United Industries and its chairman, Khoo Kay Peng. Meanwhile, Robertson has signed a mineral development agreement with Liberian strongman Charles Taylor, who the U.S. State Department accuses of human rights violations during his ascent to power. The Robertson beat goes on...

June 14, 1999

In the aftermath of Bank of Scotland’s canceling its joint venture with Pat Robertson (while paying a break up fee reported between $10 and $30 million dollars), Bank of Scotland has yet to formally withdraw its application for a bank charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The OCC indicates that if Bank of Scotland amends its application to include a new (and presumably less controversial) partner, it would trigger new public notice, and a new comment period. For that, the current, “emptied” application should be withdrawn. Future development will be reported in this space, including whether Bank of Scotland re-asserts the argument that it could collect deposits nationwide, while only acknowledging a Community Reinvestment Act duty in a single city (in the Robertson proposal, Stamford, Connecticut). Stay tuned.

Never a dull moment with Pat Robertson: he has also withdrawn from the board of directors of Laura Ashley. Back in the U.S., the Wall Street Journal of June 11 (at 24) reports on Robertson’s attempts to restructure his Christian Coalition, after the Internal Revenue Service made clear it would reject the Coalition’s application for tax-exempt status. Robertson has decided to split the group in two: an openly-political “International” charter, while relegating all conceivably tax-exempt activities to the Texas chapter of the Coalition, which already has an IRS exemption. Robertson, who will head both entities, plans to raise $21 million and distribute 75 million “voters guides” in the 2000 campaign. Robertson is meeting this week with House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R.-Ill.) “and Senate leaders to plot a legislative strategy to mobilize the GOP base.” Robertson’s views, which crashed in Scotland, are apparently eaten up by “mainstream” Republicans in the United States.

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5. well, he's a repuke....and quite possibly the anti-christ......

so human and animal and reptilian are out. he's basically garbage. but funny garbage nonetheless. i'd pay handsomely to see him on a bill with doug stanhope.