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Somebody please shut this man up!

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/05/robertson.sharon/index.html

Pat Robertson suggests that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine retribution for the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.

This man makes every American and Christian look bad every time he opens his mouth.

When will God smite HIM for being an idiot?

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by jdclyde

I thought as Americans it is your right and duty to speak up against what you disagree with?

Is that only when it is against the US Government, or just what you disagree with that this applies to?

I don't see Sen. Kennedy getting smited down, and he is an idiot.
I don't see Sen. Clinton getting smited down, and she is an idiot.
I son't see Strisand getting smited down, and she is definately an idiot.

Consistancy, where are you now?

by av .

I don't care what he says on his 700 Club show, but Pat Robertson should not have his views aired on CNN with responses from President Bush and heads of other countries in the same commentary. There are plenty of Evangelicals out there that aren't quoted. Why Pat Robertson?

No Barbara Streisand bashing. She's a great singer. I don't care about her politics.

by jdclyde

the "liberal progressives".

Why you ask? Because they are hoping to hold this nutbag up and TRY to say that he is an example of why we need to remove Christianity from all aspects of our lives.

I personally would never have known about this comment OR his comments when a poster misrepresented what he said about some town that was "turning their backs on God", had they not been held up here in TR.

So look at the ANTI-Christians, and ask THEM why they are giving him so much face time globally. If they ignored him, many here in America would not even know he was still alive. (me included).

Streisand, idiots can sing, even if they barely have the brain power to be sucking oxygen. I am not bashing her singing. They do enough of that on South Park, and do it much better than I could. I am strictly commenting on her stupidity.

When "stars" stand up and take a stand for a cause, they have to expect that people that disagree with their cause will also see them in a lesser light.

Although, I never thought I would be ABLE to see BonJovi in a lesser light until he came out for Kerry. Proved me wrong....... :O

by mjwx

This guy is what we here in Australia call a ?Media Wh0re? which simply means he will say anything to get his face on the TV. He wants attention even if it is negative attention (if he was 50 years younger his doctor might have put him on Ritalin).

I generally try not to listen to religious people. I don?t want someone telling me that everything I do is wrong (this comes shortly before the ask money for salvation). I hate preaching so feel free to ignore anything I have to say (as I think it was JD who pointed out) it is your right, in fact I would invite you to ignore my opinions on religion.

Now before this devolves into a religious bashing I don?t really care what other people believe until they try to shove it in my face. Don?t preach to me and I won?t point out the flaws in your religion. I have my beliefs and other people have theirs and IMO never the twain should meet.

This would probably extend into an argument about how I believe religion should be separate from governance but that?s a story for a different thread.

P.S. with all the gun deaths in the US you think someone who deserves it like Barbara Streisand would have been hit by now?

by jdclyde

Some people should be ignored. Some should be confronted. KKK members find themselves NOT publicly welcome in most parts of the world NOW. Some speech should be frowned on, and they are a perfect example. Religious people are definately to be ignored when/IF they go off like this.

As for Streisand, some people are alive today simply because it is illegal to kill them. That, or they have really good body guards.

You will see many "gun deaths" are related to "the war on drugs" and relationships gone bad.

If they weren't killed with a gun, they would have been killed with a knife or like in the paper yesterday, beating to death his girlfriend with a baseball bat because she wanted to leave him.

It is the people that are the problem. Need chlorine in the gene pool over here!

by azul

and I might add a few. What has got me steamed is he acts as though he is speaking FOR God.

He and I are both Christians, in some sense, but the God I know and commune with is not the God he seems to be speaking for.

I am all for opposing opinions, I don't learn or stretch my understanding nearly as much from people I always agree with.

IF he would leave God out of it, I wouldn't care what he said.

by jdclyde

is to change the channel.

Politics, I will listen to even crazy maxine out in CA because it affects my life on what nutjobs are trying to do to the country.

What Robertson says doesn't affect me or my life in any way, at any time.

by av .

He'll say anything to make money. There are some people that listen to him, but it certainly doesn't reflect the other 98% of us in America.

I just don't think his views should be given such notoriety. There are other Evangelicals that are popular, but I don't see their opinions aired on CNN on matters like this. Why? Pat Robertson is probably paying for the privilege. I can't think of any other reason why well known, credible networks like CNN even mention his name.

by m_a_r_k

You think that Pat Robertson pays CNN to air his wacky opinions? Pat Robertson's opinions get aired on TV because he's a well-known guy. If you or I or any other nobody says something stupid, it won't be aired on TV. When Pat Robertson or Jesse Jackson or Jessica Simpson say something stupid, it will get aired on TV.

by jdclyde

JAckson and sharpton will not have the BAD things aired on CNN, only what is concidered favorable to push their crooked agendas.

Robertson will only have unfavorable things shown to discredit him and all of Christianity.

Jessica Simpson ONLY says things that are stupid, but because she is hot she is news. People love to watch a classic example of the dumb blonde steriotype. (remember the Chicken of the sea ordeal?)

by av .

Maybe I went overboard. I just wonder why mainstream media would choose to air his comments over - say - the Pope?

by m_a_r_k

Jackson and Sharpton are probably given a kid-glove treatment compared to Robertson. There's an obvious reason for that but I don't dare say it. I will only say that it is more politically correct to villify certain people than others.

"Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken by the Sea.'"
- Jessica Simpson

"Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?"
- Paris Hilton

by jdclyde

Jackson and Sharpton are given a pass on EVERYTHING for two reasons.

They pull in the black vote on many issues that the wingnut liberals want.

If you say anything against them, then you are labeled a racist and it is taken as an attack on the race, not on these two corrupt individuals.

Sad, really.

by dfirefire

Being an atheist, I respect other people's ideas or explanations of the unknown (as religions originally started out). But I seriously have my doubts upon every religion that leads its believers into some kind of war...
As stated in a previous comment: be consisent. Not only on the right to defend your opinion, but also on your religion. If your God finds this man to be wrong, he will punish him (but he can't, because he should forgive his enemies, not?), otherwise God may be still on winter holiday together with Allah or Shivu or...

by tony hopkinson

time for the christian right. You've got to give this guy points, he's very good at being a complete arse. I'm thinking he's competing with the Iranian president in a who's the biggest ****wit competition. Unable to judge whether he's winning though.

by mirrormirror

I was APPALLED that Bon Jovi went political and even more so that he went for Kerry. I refuse to buy anymore Bon Jovi CD's.

My kingdom for an entertainer who stays out of politics!

by jdclyde

He had the best quote during the 04 election.

"Anyone that gets their political advice from a rock star is an idiot"

The same can be said about same rock star that is GIVING political advice.

It was funny when "The Boss" was showing up with Kerry. People would hear him sing a few songs, and then when he was done and Kerry came on, people just left. (left the left? I crack myself up!)

by montgomery gator

He did not make any noise about it, but he is friends with John McCain and has supported his Senate campaigns. He also supported GWB's reelection. I read that Alice Cooper quote before, and I do see the truth in it, and also believe that Alice Cooper was exercising irony , since he is a supporter of Republican and conservative causes. Alice Cooper also made the ironic quote: "What's the big deal about Marilyn Manson, he is just some guy in a dress", considering that Alice Cooper wore dresses in the early part of his career.

It is true that Cooper is relatively quiet about politics, not like Ted Nugent who tells everyone that liberals and Democrats suck!! :-)

Nothing wrong with that, I happen to agree with both Cooper and Nugent (not because they told me what to believe, I was already a Reagan Republican), and they both do rock!! :-)

Alice Cooper is also an evangelical Christian, a big supporter of Grand Canyon College, a Christian school in Arizona. He is just not outspoken about it, and his witness is one-on-one with other people in the music industry, not on stage, where he rocks!!

If you have ever heard Alice Cooper and Ted Nugent in interviews, you will find out they are both very eloquent and very intelligent, unlike "The Boss" or Streisand, or Bon Jovi.

by av .

He is way over the top and needs to try to cultivate Christian values instead of hatred. I think most people are turned off by what he has to say. I look at him as a Christian Fundamentalist of the fire and brimstone kind.

Regardless though, of what he is, I share your concern of who are the media people that allow Pat Robertson to be newsworthy and why? I'm not sure if its greed or power.

Personally, I don't care about Streisand's political views, I just want her to keep singing. Sure, idiots can sing, but they don't sing like Barbara Streisand.

by jdclyde

that they would be more eloquent AND intelligent. There is an IQ test you have to fail to join the Democratic party these days, ESPECIALLY if your an alledged celebrity.

Streisand has got to be the worst of them though. Talk about a nitwit!

And while Ted is a little "colorful" in his language, he is well informed and isn't afraid to speak the truth.

For a lot of it though, I do prefer the Cooper approach and low profile instead of the Democratic approach of yelling and screaming their hate every chance they get.

by vidalr

As you though I'm from Canada. That is all that you got. Bad for you, tcp, udp, ping,ports did not work not that good in security. Sorry I forgot YlBC ~ " ~ do not make a joke of me and my country Never.
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