Wash Post editorial: Pat Robertson is a "pathetic... religious extremist"

[kpete]

Wash Post editorial: Pat Robertson is a "pathetic... religious extremist"
by John in DC - 1/07/2006 02:28:00 PM


Sometimes even the Washington Post gets it:

CHRISTIAN television evangelist Pat Robertson and the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have a well-established affinity for the outrageous. This time their mutual embrace of indecency places them in a category all to themselves. As Ariel Sharon lies hospitalized and critically incapacitated by a massive stroke, Mr. Robertson, one of America's best-known religious extremists, and his Iranian counterpart -- no slouch when it comes to religious demagoguery -- suggested that Israel's prime minister had it coming. Speaking on his TV show, "The 700 Club," on the Christian Broadcasting Network, Mr. Robertson said the Bible "makes it very clear that God has enmity against those who 'divide my land.' "....

Pat Robertson and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are probably beyond the point where they can be reached by embarrassment or shame. But they are not beyond the kind of strong condemnation that they have richly earned. We need not recite the records of contemptible remarks made by both men in the past. There is little reason to believe that either will cease his disgraceful behavior. Mr. Ahmadinejad, the president of a country with a lamentable human rights record and a nuclear program, is dangerous, where Mr. Robertson is only pathetic.

http://www.americablog.org/

[LaurenG]

1. That is putting it nicely IMHO he is so much more than

pathetic. He's a muse of the devil.

[MuseRider]

2. Good. Tie them together

they are essentially one and the same.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Even the Bush WH is condemning Robertson. A bit late, of course.

[kpete]

4. Link to Wapo

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/06/AR2006010601603.html

[ladjf]

5. It's too simple to dismiss Robertson as a religious "nut". The

fact is that he has made millions by lying to the American people in the name of God. In any other business he would have been imprisoned for fraud.

[Nikki Stone 1]

6. I'm still trying ot find out how he got that free lease in Galilee for his

theme park. And why Israel went along with it.