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Segami

(14,923 posts)
Wed May 29, 2013, 08:44 AM May 2013

Pat Robertson THREATENS ‘Nasty’ Progressive Group With ‘FULL-SCALE EXPOSÉ´




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 he’s 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 America’s premiere television soothsayer, Robertson’s show is a frequent stop for both groups, but only one of them recently caused a stir at Robertson’s 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 Robertson’s host network CBS that was embarrassed. The network explained in a statement that Robertson’s comment on adultery “was not to condone infidelity or to cast blame,” insisting they “regret any misunderstanding.” Despite Robertson’s 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 it’s 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/
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Pat Robertson THREATENS ‘Nasty’ Progressive Group With ‘FULL-SCALE EXPOSÉ´ (Original Post) Segami May 2013 OP
Screw you, you ghastly glob of santorum. Scuba May 2013 #1
Media Matters tells the truth and Pat thinks it's hell. BlueToTheBone May 2013 #2
I predict that Pat Robertson kentauros May 2013 #3
Please proceed, Pat. tanyev May 2013 #4
Perhaps it's time for the DOJ to visit those activities. hootinholler May 2013 #8
Poor deluded scum bag....this man is a real piece of sh*t..... bowens43 May 2013 #5
The truly deluded are the people who listen to this evil charlatan. Arugula Latte May 2013 #16
Could be "Crooks and Liars" brooklynite May 2013 #6
Implying he has a better investigative team than a direct line of communication to God. Pragdem May 2013 #7
Maybe he'll give himself a stroke and go home to Jeebus CanonRay May 2013 #9
Bring it, Patrick Iggo May 2013 #10
The biggest threat he can imagine, a "FULL-SCALE EXPOSÉ" siligut May 2013 #11
If Pat Robertson had his way, this country would return to slavery AndyA May 2013 #12
Let me put it this way... bobclark86 May 2013 #13
He won't name them EC May 2013 #14
Poor Pat ctsnowman May 2013 #15
Bring it on lsewpershad May 2013 #17
Hey Pat! Go back under the troll bridge from which you came! Initech May 2013 #18
Truth is what they fear most. lpbk2713 May 2013 #19
"it was Robertson’s host network CBS" blogslut May 2013 #20
You are correct blogslut. Its not CBS but CBN. Segami May 2013 #24
another member of the party of personal responsibility noiretextatique May 2013 #21
Preachers Are Con-Men. Stop Being Conned! Segami May 2013 #22
"How DARE you quote me verbatim!1! What gives you the right to take what I say and talk about it?1!" ck4829 May 2013 #23

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
3. I predict that Pat Robertson
Wed May 29, 2013, 08:53 AM
May 2013

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)
4. Please proceed, Pat.
Wed May 29, 2013, 08:56 AM
May 2013

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)
8. Perhaps it's time for the DOJ to visit those activities.
Wed May 29, 2013, 09:41 AM
May 2013

I agree he should just do it, I only hope there's enough popcorn to go around.

 

bowens43

(16,064 posts)
5. Poor deluded scum bag....this man is a real piece of sh*t.....
Wed May 29, 2013, 08:59 AM
May 2013

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)
16. The truly deluded are the people who listen to this evil charlatan.
Wed May 29, 2013, 11:25 AM
May 2013

Ol' Pat is laughing his ass off all the way to the bank.

siligut

(12,272 posts)
11. The biggest threat he can imagine, a "FULL-SCALE EXPOSÉ"
Wed May 29, 2013, 10:38 AM
May 2013

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)
12. If Pat Robertson had his way, this country would return to slavery
Wed May 29, 2013, 11:02 AM
May 2013

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)
13. Let me put it this way...
Wed May 29, 2013, 11:11 AM
May 2013

...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)
14. He won't name them
Wed May 29, 2013, 11:17 AM
May 2013

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)
15. Poor Pat
Wed May 29, 2013, 11:23 AM
May 2013

Doesn't like it when he's quoted while attacking large segments of the population on national TV.

lpbk2713

(42,753 posts)
19. Truth is what they fear most.
Wed May 29, 2013, 12:40 PM
May 2013



And any organization disseminating the truth will be dealt with harshly.


noiretextatique

(27,275 posts)
21. another member of the party of personal responsibility
Wed May 29, 2013, 01:26 PM
May 2013

who cannot take personal responsibility for the shit he spews pathetic!!!

ck4829

(35,045 posts)
23. "How DARE you quote me verbatim!1! What gives you the right to take what I say and talk about it?1!"
Wed May 29, 2013, 05:00 PM
May 2013
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