Pat Robertson is a Crazy, Lying Scumbag

There is no depth to which Pat Robertson will not sink.




This is so wrong on so many levels.

First, There's the automatic Televangelist response to any natural disaster: figure out some reason why the victims had it coming. Usually, step one is blame the homos, but I guess Haiti isn't really known for being super gay-friendly, so let's make up some ridiculous story about a pact with Satan?

And why a pact with Satan? I guess because a bunch of black African types couldn't possibly have overthrown the French on their own, right? There has to be some sort of supernatural assist. And since it's black people overthrowing whitey, that help must have come from Satan, couldn't be God. Normally, when one group defeats another, people assume, "well, they had God on their side." or "it was God's will that the American colonists overthrew the British" or whatever. But Haitians? Nope, had to be the Devil!

And then there's the blatant lie about the island of Hispanola. The Dominican Republic is prosperous?

Here's what I know about the Dominican republic. Omar Vizquel learned to play shortstop with a piece of cardboard on his hand because he couldn't afford a baseball glove.
CEDIMAT Hospital in the Dominican Republic is able to keep its doors open because of money donated and raised by David Ortiz.
And here is what an American Little League player found upon visiting the Dominican:

What Kalikow encountered shocked him. The 12 and 13-year old boys he found playing baseball were running homemade bases without shoes, swinging tree branches for bats and catching rocks inside milk cartons fitted like gloves. The impoverished suburbs of Punta Cana left many children without shirts to wear, much less sporting equipment with which to play.

(source)

But Robertson knows that none of his idiotic viewers are going to do any fact checking. If he says it, they'll accept it as Gospel truth. Just like when he tells his "deal with the devil" story, he just smiles and says "true story!" knowing that that's all the proof his followers will require.

And the whole time he's spreading this malicious bullshit, there's an ad on screen for "OB Disaster Relief" which is Pat's charitable scam. (O.B. stands for Operation Blessing) Anyone want to wager on how much of the money the suckers pour into OB Disaster Relief will actually make it to Haiti?

To donate to a legitimate relief effort, try OxFam: http://www.oxfam.org.uk

or Food For the Hungry:
http://www.fh.org/learn/news/disaster/haiti-rocked-by-powerful-quake?promocode=WA25WD0A2

Or The American Red Cross:
http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ntld_main&s_subsrc=RCO_ResponseStateSection


And Pat Robertson? Hurry up and die already, would ya?

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Jennifer Lopez should STFU

Because if this is what you have to say on any subject:

“And I guess deep down I really felt like either this is not going to happen for me or it is. You know what I mean? And if it is, it will. And if it’s not, it’s not going to.”

It's time to take your mouth off of auto-pilot.

Honestly, it almost doesn't even matter what subject she was on, she could have been talking about bagels or penguins or speedometers. As it happens, she was talking about in vitro fertilization, which actually does make it even worse. Because this ridiculous pull-quote was spoken in defense of this position:

Lopez told Elle magazine in their February issue that she decided to forgo in vitro fertilization treatments while trying to get pregnant herself. “I … believe in God and I have a lot of faith in that, so I just felt like you don’t mess with things like that,”

So you're trying to tell me that your kids were conceived naturally. You expect me to believe that Marc Anthony

had sex with a woman? Come on!

Seriously, though, if you're going to take a stand on an issue, you really ought to consider having a well-reasoned argument that doesn't meet both definitions of tautology:

tau⋅tol⋅o⋅gy

–noun, plural -gies.

1.	needless repetition of an idea, esp. in words other than those of the immediate context, without imparting additional force or clearness

2.	a compound propositional form all of whose instances are true, as “A or not A.”

See, it's kind of pointless to say "either it won't happen or it will" unless you're going to examine the consequences of either possibility, such as "if it doesn't happen then (fill in the blank) and if it does happen, then (fill in the blank)" It's really stupid to start off with "it will or it won't" and then follow up with "if it will it will and if it won't it won't" That's the sort of prattle one would expect to hear from someone who has absolutely nothin to say but is in love with the sound of her own voice.

Sad News

Three Questions About Mark McGwire

#1) Now that McGwire has admitted to taking illegal steroids and lying about it, even perjuring himself before Congress, will he be prosecuted? Or is that treatment reserved for Barry Bonds?

"The toughest thing is my wife, my parents, close friends have had no idea that I hid it from them all this time,"

#2) Really? He really thinks he HID his steroid use? Really?

This is how you look when you're hiding steroid use? Pretty sneaky, sis!

#3) Why was everyone willing to take McGwire's word for it all these years that he was not using steroids? Why was that courtesy extended to McGwire but not Bonds? (Not that Bonds deserved it either)

I know people will say it's because Barry Bonds is kind of a jerk, but it's not like McGwire is exactly a fun guy either. He has a well-earned reputation for surliness. But for some reason, the sports media decided that Mark McGwire was the all-American hero and Bonds was just some overpriveleged punk. I would hate to think that that was based on skin color, but I don't know what else to think.