Pat’s just pissed because things aren’t going by his “script”.  I think he wants us to annihilate the Palestinians and help Israel become a world power.  Then they will be attacked by Gog (Russia) and the highly anticipated orgy of death outlined in Revelations will commence.

I recently read a “prophecy” page that said former General Labed has stated that he wants to attack the Middle East and he has a good chance of being the next president of Russia.  I have absolutely no idea why the Russians would attack Israel (maybe the matzo bread is better there than in Moscow?).  Well who am I to ponder such things…it’s in the script so it must be so.

I concur, the old boy just keeps getting crazier and crazier.  I think he knows his time is limited and he wants this Revelation shit to go down while he is still sucking air.  He just can’t wait to see the look on our faces when the prophecies come true (just like my buddy Rep).

I believe the term is “as a shithouse rat”.

Do you think that that statement will get him put on the terrorist watch list?

PR didn’t quite endorse nukeing Foggy Bottom, neither did he distance himself from that action. In any event, the whole interview was a conversaton between two people who wanted to conduct a diatribe.

This is PR’s closing statement.

Joel, thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, the book is called Dangerous Diplomacy. It is extremely interesting. I must say, you get a little bit discouraged when you read it, but something has got to be done. And we’ve been pointing out to you on this program that the Afghans are getting ready to pass a Constitution, which will be “in accord with Islamic law.” They’ve taken out the term Sharia, because everybody knows that is really bad. But in accordance with Islamic law, it goes back to Sharia. And so they’re pulling the wool over the State Department’s eyes, and they are complicit with the State Department, and nobody is raising any objection. That’s just one more thing where they’ve copied up to the Taliban. They have supported the enemies of George Bush in the war on Iraq, and it goes on, and on and on. And we’ve seen it in country after country after country where they destabilized Democratic regimes in order to bring in communist regimes. And it’s a sad story. It goes back for decades, and something has got to be done. Joel has done a great job in bringing this to our attention.

All he really said, twice, was something has to be done--safely isolating himself from specificity.

As to the bolded sentence. Huh? I must have missed something.

I did like the closing to the initial post.

I don’t know Vern …it kinda looks like that to me.  I found this in Pat’s opening statement on the link you put in your posting:

PAT ROBERTSON: I read your book. When you get through, you say, “If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom, I think that’s the answer.” I mean, you get through this, and you say, “We’ve got to blow that thing up.” I mean, is it as bad as you say?

What part of that leads you to believe el Wacko didn’t mean we need to nuke the State Department?  Was it the, “If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom” or was it the, “I think that’s the answer” part?  Obviously we know Herr Robertson doesn’t really intend to do it…it’s just God-inspired hyperbole.  I am simply amazed that this Neanderthal still has a following…what a horse’s patooty.  Too bad he didn’t get the presidential nomination in ‘88…we wouldn’t have had any worries then (except for radiation sickness and nuclear winter)!

Vern R huh…does that R stand for Robertson???  I’m on to you slick and hasama daba mala kaleeema…sorry, I was just speaking in tongues there bro’.

As I read Robertson’s opening statement, the quotes were where PR cited passages from Joel Mowbray’s book. He introduced Mowbray’s inflamatory suggestion, and then asked “...is it really as bad as you say”.

Does this rise to the level of shouting fire in a crowded theater? I honestly don’t know.

Incidently, I agree with your characterization of PR as el Wacko. I grit my teeth most every time I hear him speak.

Vern

I didn’t read this dude’s book of course, so I don’t know if the author actually used those phrases.  It looks to me like Pat is saying “you” in the personal sense.  I’ll show you what I think is being said:

PAT ROBERTSON: I read your book. When one gets through, one says, “If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom, I think that’s the answer.” I mean, one gets through this, and one says, “We’ve got to blow that thing up.” I mean, is it as bad as you say?

The last statement especially looks to me like PR is commenting on his own impression of the book after reading it; not quoting the douche bag that wrote it.  Why would the State Department be pissed at PR if he was just parroting the paranoid right wing author of the book?

Bill

I didn’t read this dude’s book of course, so I don’t know if the author actually used those phrases. It looks to me like Pat is saying “you” in the personal sense. I’ll show you what I think is being said:

and what follows in your post.

Quite possibly.

I didn’t read the book either, and don’t intend to do so.

If you have it right, then the outragessnous of what Robertson said ratchets up a good bit.

Vern R

I screwed up and watched some of the CBN news last night.  I don’t know what it is; it’s like I’m a junkie and can’t change the channel when I see PR.  Now I know how Rush felt man, but I still say Rush is just chippin’ man…he ain’t hooked man…he ain’t!

PR put forth a very coherent argument about banning gay marriages.  He astutely pointed out that the Supreme Court recently “authorized” gay people to be gay.  I wasn’t aware that the Constitution discussed sexual preference, but it must be so or PR wouldn’t have said it.

The most revolting thing I saw was the Israelis kissing the ass of evangelical Christians!  Even Sharon was giving a speech in praise of his “devoted friends”.  Good God, don’t these dudes know they are just being used as pawns in the paranoid fantasies of the evangelicals?  I guess Israel’s situation forces them to make friends wherever they can find them.  If I was one of Israel’s parents, I would suggest they find someone more wholesome to play with!

Pat Robertson is a mean spirited old man who distorts he Bible to support his hatred of other.