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Our First winner: Pat Robertson
This man has stunned many (including christians) with
his overactive mouth and underactive brain. They brought in Ralph
Reed to try and sugar coat Robertsons fanatical (and often outright evil)
views. Reed did a pretty good job for a while, but in the end the
twit that is Pat Robertson could not be contained. Here are just
a few of the many, many stupid, evil, or just inaccurate things he has
said that slipped by.
Visit the Anti-Pat site where I got these: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7027/patrobertson.html
Many of those people involved with Adolph Hitler were Satanists,
many of them were homosexuals--the two
things seem to go together."--Pat Robertson, "The 700 Club,"
1/21/93
This statement is grossly incorrect. Suffice to say, it is a historical
fact that the Nazis killed homosexuals as ruthlessly as they
did Jews.
"Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America
is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's
no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over
again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based
media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians.
Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the
worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today.
More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in
history."--Pat Robertson, 1993 interview with Molly Ivins
Forget for a minute, if you will, the fact that Robertson is now comparing
the "plight" of Christians in America with that of Jews
in Nazi Germany-he is saying that what they "suffer" is worse than what
any other group has EVER suffered. Yes, not a day
goes by (in Pat's fantasy land) that Christians in America aren't tormented
and killed for being Christian, even worse than the
slaves for being black, even worse than the Jews for being Jews. It is
also interesting to note that the argument that
Robertson is making is similar to the argument that Hitler made against
the Jews-that the Jews were oppressing his Aryan
people and he had had enough.
"There is no such thing as separation of church and state in
the Constitution. It is a lie of the Left and we are not
going to take it anymore." --Pat Robertson, November 1993 during
an address to the American Center for Law
and Justice
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." This simply
wouldn't work if there wasn't a separation of church and state. A theocracy
would inevitably violate the First Amendment.
Separation of church and state is the only way to insure that freedom of
religion is kept.
"I am bound by the laws of the United States and all 50 states...I
am not bound by any case or any court to which I
myself am not a party...I don't think the Congress of the
United States is subservient to the courts...They can
ignore a Supreme Court ruling if they so choose."--Pat Robertson,
Washington Post, June 27,1986)
I guess we should be happy that he considers himself bound by the law (except,
I guess, when it comes to federal election
laws). Of course, for someone who ran for President, his grasp of the system
of checks and balances among the branches of
government is less than that of a junior high school student. What's worse
is that Robertson has a law degree from
Yale-although he never was able to pass the bar exam.
"If anybody understood what Hindus really believe, there would be
no doubt that they have no business
administering government policies in a country that favors freedom
and equality. ... Can you imagine having the
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as defense minister, or Mahatma Gandhi
as minister of health, education, and
welfare? The Hindu and Buddhist idea of karma and the Muslim idea
of kismet, or fate condemn the poor and the
disabled to their suffering. ... It's the will of Allah. These beliefs
are nothing but abject fatalism, and they would
devastate the social gains this nation has made if they were ever
put into practice." --Pat Robertson's "The New
World Order," page 219.
So Robertson doesn't want the Ayatollah of Iran, or Mahatma Gandhi (I really
don't get why he decided to go after Gandhi, of
all people) in our government. Instead, he wants a fanatical member of
his religion...also, his definition of karma is incorrect.
Karma basically means that you reap what you sow, something the Bible talks
about.
"The public education movement has also been an anti-Christian movement...We
can change education in
America if you put Christian principles in and Christian pedagogy
in. In three years, you would totally
revolutionize education in America." --Pat Robertson,"The 700 Club,"
September 27, 1993.
Total bull. (Yeah, we'd stop educating and begin brainwashing. why further the education of non christians they just grow up to be satanists anyway)
"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about
a socialist, anti-family political movement
that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their
children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and
become lesbians." -- Pat Robertson, fundraising letter, 1992
Frankly, this requires little comment. I feel the "kill their children"
and "witchcraft" parts are particularly instructive.
(Why did he include 'destroy capitolism'?)
(talking about apartheid South Africa) "I think 'one man, one vote,'
just unrestricted democracy, would not be
wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for the minority
which the white people represent now, a
minority, and they need and have a right to demand a protection
of their rights."--Pat Robertson, "The 700 Club,"
3/18/92
Here's another side of Pat, a racist side that he has been very careful
about hiding. The idea that Robertson thinks that a
white person's vote should matter more than a black person's vote is something
to think about when hearing the Christian
Coalition's talk of improving race relations in America. (but then he endorses
christians trying to squash minorities in this
country.)
George had to get in on this didn't he? Well he's the second Twit to be memorialized here. George was the most useless presidnet we've had in a long time. Having an actor for president was bad having a career politicina like Bush was worse.(I tremble at the thought of what his son will do if he gets elected, vomiting on other countries officials may seem like small potatoes).
"I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should
they be considered patriots. This is one
nation under God."-- George Bush
This is just bad. And some people want his son to be our ruler.... Ack.
"The question we need to ask: Is our children learning?"
--On the hustings, Jan. 2000
On Foreign Threats in the post Cold War World "I'm also running because
I want to keep the peace, keep the peace. When I was coming up, it was
a dangerous world and we
knew exactly who the they were. It was us versus them, and it was clear
who them was. Today, we're not so sure who the they are. But we know they're
there."
--Council Bluffs, Iowa, Jan. 21,2000
"Bush said if most of the breaks in his plan go to wealthy people it's because 'most of the people who pay taxes are wealthy.'"
--Iowa Press Conference Reported by Bennett Roth, HC, 1/5/00
"...Anyway, my only point is it's a very optimistic time, and one of
the main reasons I'm running for president, though, is remember that as
the nature of our economy
changes, we'd better be careful because people could be left behind."
--N.H. press conference reported by Peggy Fikac, SAEN, 11/99.
"After he had failed a reporter's pop quiz last fall about foreign leaders,
including the name of the
Indian prime minister, Mr. Bush winced today when a moderator mentioned
the words "pop quiz." Jokingly,
Mr. Bush dared the moderator to ask him the name of the Indian president.
"Do you know who the president of
India is?" the moderator asked obligingly. "Vajpayee," Mr. Bush said, grinning
and looking pleased with
himself. But Atal Behari Vajpayee is the prime minister of India; the president
is K. R. Narayanan." --New York
Times, 2/26
"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and
principles, come and join this
campaign." --Hilton Head, S.C. (Slate)
"The fact that he relies on facts--says things that are not factual--are
going to undermine his
campaign." --New York Times
"I think we agree, the past is over."—-On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News.
"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."--In answer
to the charge that, as Texas governor,
he did not make up a state budget, Reuters.
1st in Children without Health Insurance %...1st in Toxic Air Releases...1st
in Smog Days (Houston)...1st in
poorest counties(3)...3rd in Hunger %...5th in Highest Teen Birth Rate...41st
in Breast Cancer
Screenings...45th in Mothers Receiving Pre-Natal Care...46th in Public
Libraries and Branches...46th in High
School Completion Rate...46th in Water Resources Protection...47th in Delivery
of Social Services...48th in
Literacy...48th in Per Capita Funding for Public Health...48 in Best Place
to Raise Children (29th before
Bush)*...48th in Spending for Parks and Recreation...48th in Spending for
the Arts...49th in Spending for
the Environment...50th in Women with Health Insurance...50th in Teachers'
Salaries plus Benefits...
*Children's Rights Council. further documentation
Only one accredited child-care center exists for every 2,637 children.
A fourth of children still are not
immunized by age 2. --Texas Freedom Network.
And so much more I have to move on. Here is a link to a great site that keeps an eye on him:BUSH WATCH