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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 10:51 AM
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P Robertson: Snow Is God’s Way of Punishing Americans Who Were Planning to Drive to Do Something Gay

VIRGINIA BEACH (The Borowitz Report) – Rev. Pat Robertson sparked controversy in today’s broadcast of his 700 Club program when he claimed that God created the blizzard currently battering the Northeast “to punish Americans who were planning to drive to do something gay.”

Explaining his theory, Rev. Robertson said, “Because of the bad road conditions the Almighty has made, any gay activities that people were planning on doing will have to be postponed by a day or two.”

Additionally, he argued, God shut down major airports in the New York area “so that people who were hoping to fly to do something of a gay nature would have to take a train or a bus, so it might be days before the gay thing they were going to do could occur.”

As for the millions of straight people in New York City who were also grounded by the bad weather, the televangelist said, “I think God probably wonders, if these people are really straight, then what are they doing in New York?”

In other blizzard-related news, the National Weather Service offered this update: “It’s as white as a Glenn Beck rally out there.”

http://www.borowitzreport.com/
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 10:52 AM
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1. pat robertson must be god's personal comedy channel
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Pathwalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 10:55 AM
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2. Or...it's nature's way of telling you it's winter.
Put down the bong, Pat.
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FrancisTreptoe Donating Member (145 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 11:07 AM
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14. No put down the crack pipe.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 10:56 AM
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3. Wow, busted . . . . .
:sarcasm:
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pinboy3niner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 10:57 AM
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4. LOL!
Andy does it again... :rofl:
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 11:48 AM
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25. Isn't he great?
:rofl:
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WingDinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 10:57 AM
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5. God also made the weather, so we would stay home and blow spliffs.
All warm and toasty. He has said as much when he said it was stupid to criminalize pot, to any degree. Maybe he wants to use pot as gay methadone.
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 11:03 AM
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10. and make babies...don't forget about staying home and making babies
:sarcasm:
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katnapped Donating Member (938 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 11:29 AM
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20. Nuh-uh...need to qualify that
Only if you're married AND Republican. Otherwise you're already banished to spend a life in hell for your sins :sarcasm:
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sabbat hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 11:01 AM
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6. I am fairly sure
that the article in question is satire. Given that the author is a comedian/satirist.
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 11:02 AM
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7. Aw, gee...were Pat's personal plans also interrupted?
:sarcasm:

STFU, Robertson.
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Pisces Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 11:02 AM
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8. I guess God doesn't mind the gays in South Beach hooking up. It's only those NY gays he doesn't
want to have sex.
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PJPhreak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 11:03 AM
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9. “I think God probably wonders,
if these people are really straight, then what are they doing in New York?”

Maybe its because they LIVE there??

Last week this idiot came out for the Legalization of Weed....Then he says something like this??

Effin Nutjob!
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 11:05 AM
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11. Wow! He's almost a poet...
Hey, Pat...try something like:

Punishing Americans with snow is God's way
Who were planning to drive to do something gay!


C'mon, Pat! Work with it!

...or how about a haiku?

Much snow is God's way
To punish Americans
Driving to be gay

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dbonds Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 11:05 AM
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12. Does that mean Bing Crosby was calling down gods wrath when he sang ...
"I'm dreaming of a white christmas"?
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etherealtruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 11:05 AM
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13. I love it! Thanks
The funniest "things" have a ring a plausibility to them.
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Buns_of_Fire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 11:16 AM
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19. ...and the really MASTERFUL ones always make you wonder for just a split-second...
Edited on Tue Dec-28-10 11:20 AM by Buns_of_Fire
(Of course, with the really, really masterful ones... you just never know, one way or the other.:evilgrin:)
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Wickerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 11:08 AM
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15. Every time I see a Pat Robinson quote I think it has to be from the Onion
So, God created a snowstorm that is paralyzing the entire populace simply to spite an estimated 5% of the population?

What a twisted, moronic old homophobe. I wonder why that old bigot is so preoccupied with what others do in bed? :think:
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FrancisTreptoe Donating Member (145 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 11:09 AM
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16. God lord what is it going to take for this man to get kicked off the air?
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BlueDemKev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 11:15 AM
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18. His keeling over
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BlueDemKev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 11:14 AM
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17. Oh yeah, like driving to the Vikings-Eagles game in Philadelphia....
You see, I was hoping since Brett Favre won't be playing, he might come up into the stands and massage my private parts! :eyes:

Pat Robertson is a crackpot.
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yodermon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 11:29 AM
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21. That this post fooled so many DUers is a testament to Pat's profound wingnuttery
It would be hysterical if it weren't so depressing.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 11:59 AM
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28. LOL
Very true.
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 11:37 AM
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22. Edit.
Edited on Tue Dec-28-10 11:39 AM by HughBeaumont
Forgot to look and see that it's Borowitz :banghead:

Although, it really, honestly wouldn't surprise me.
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Tess49 Donating Member (606 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 11:39 AM
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23. I assumed this was from the Onion until I looked at the link. Sounds
Edited on Tue Dec-28-10 11:43 AM by Tess49
like something Pat would say. Had me until I read the weather service quote about Glen Beck.
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Broderick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 11:45 AM
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24. Bizarre nt
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onenote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 11:53 AM
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26. one of the funniest thing about Borowitz's stories is how many people fall for them
This thread is proof positive of that!
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 11:56 AM
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27. Jesus fucking christ.
Edited on Tue Dec-28-10 11:56 AM by Arkana
This guy talks about "the gay" so much I'm starting to wonder if he doesn't hunger for it himself.

e: Hahaha, Borowitz. Still, it sounds like something Reverend Pat would say.
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Motown_Johnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 12:02 PM
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29. and all the nice days are there to reward people who were on their way to do gay stuff?
What else could it be?



:sarcasm:
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 12:07 PM
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30. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Pat
Make the Yuletide gay..... :rofl:
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sofa king Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 12:31 PM
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31. Maybe the gayness can be cured by smoking dope.`
Isn't that Robertson's other crusade these days?
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felix_numinous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 01:19 PM
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32. Evangelicals on MJ
the new fringe.
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Poll_Blind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 01:23 PM
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33. I refuse to believe God interrupted my unitard shopping trip! n/t
PB
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 01:37 PM
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34. Yes. I was unable to get to the Jonas Bros concert
Edited on Tue Dec-28-10 01:38 PM by Doctor_J
:wtf:

Never mind. It's prof. borowitz.
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