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One asks, whats wrong with this country?......well for starters, you're looking at one big reason!
Television preacher and one-time Republican presidential candidatehis Pat Robertson warned on 700 Club show Tuesday that hes inclined to run a full-scale exposé on a web publication that he refused to identify, calling them a nasty group that focuses on embarrassing conservatives who appear on television. There are only two groups he could be talking about: Media Matters and Right Wing Watch, both of which specialize in video clips of conservatives saying untrue, insensitive or otherwise appalling things. Given his status as Americas premiere television soothsayer, Robertsons show is a frequent stop for both groups, but only one of them recently caused a stir at Robertsons network.
Right Wing Watch, a project of People for the American Way (PFAW), recently clipped Robertson saying something not so original for him, but always alarming when he repeats it. On a recent episode, he told a female viewer that her husband had an affair because she had not done enough to keep his attention, adding that she should focus on all the nice things he does for her instead, like letting her live in his house or giving her food and clothing.
Robertson has said essentially this before, telling a woman who wrote into his show in 2010 to make yourself as attractive as possible in order to prevent her husband from cheating, which Media Matters noted at the time. When he repeated this meme earlier in May, Right Wing Watch was the group standing by to catch the ball, and that irked Robertson. There are organizations, there is one in particular which I will not name, but it is set out for one purpose: to embarrass those who are conservative on television, he said Tuesday. So they take my words and they twist them and distort them.
Just earlier this month, it was Robertsons host network CBS that was embarrassed. The network explained in a statement that Robertsons comment on adultery was not to condone infidelity or to cast blame, insisting they regret any misunderstanding. Despite Robertsons insistence, Right Wing Watch quoted him accurately and completely in context. This organization misconstrues deliberately, they want to do everything they can do to make my words and they twist them, he complained. I will not identify the organization but one day we may have a full-scale exposé because its a nasty group.
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/28/pat-robertson-threatens-nasty-progressive-group-with-full-scale-expose/
Scuba
(53,475 posts)BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)will twist and distort his own words in a failed attempt to make those organizations look bad, only for them to turn right around and offer up side-by-side comparisons for all to see and hear. Robertson should be apoplectic by then
tanyev
(42,550 posts)By the way, how are your protein shakes selling, Pat? And maybe it's time to revisit the topics of your Operation Blessing planes being used to transport diamond-mining equipment and your friendships with various corrupt dictators.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)I agree he should just do it, I only hope there's enough popcorn to go around.
bowens43
(16,064 posts)if there was a hell this jackass would certainly be going there. Only thing that disappoints me about the fact that there is no heaven or hell is that I won't have the satisfaction of knowing this clown is burning in the fiery flames for all eternity.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Ol' Pat is laughing his ass off all the way to the bank.
brooklynite
(94,502 posts)Pragdem
(233 posts)CanonRay
(14,101 posts)Iggo
(47,549 posts):middlefinger:
siligut
(12,272 posts)He thinks he can dig up something. Gee, Pat, hard to imagine that everyone isn't a forked-tongued, two-bit god-huckster like yourself? Not everyone is on the take you fool.
AndyA
(16,993 posts)and women wouldn't have any rights at all, other than to shut up and stay home and take care of the children.
Robertson should crawl back under the rock he's been living under and stay there. Haven't seen his Bible, the one that says hating others is OK, as is passing judgement, condemnation, not helping others, etc.
Wish there could be a complete media blackout of this man. Wonder if he has tax exempt status? He's surely involved more in politics than anything else.
bobclark86
(1,415 posts)...the way my first newspaper editor put it:
"It's not our job to make them look stupid. They do that just fine on their own."
EC
(12,287 posts)because he's afraid his following will go to the website and see that they didn't distort what he said at all, but replayed it word for word.
ctsnowman
(1,903 posts)Doesn't like it when he's quoted while attacking large segments of the population on national TV.
lsewpershad
(2,620 posts)Creep.
Initech
(100,063 posts)lpbk2713
(42,753 posts)And any organization disseminating the truth will be dealt with harshly.
blogslut
(37,999 posts)?
Wouldn't that be CBN?
Segami
(14,923 posts)typo
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)who cannot take personal responsibility for the shit he spews pathetic!!!