ROBERTSON BLAMES HURRICANE ON CHOICE OF ELLEN DEGENERES TO HOST EMMYS

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://datelinehollywood.com/archives/2005/09/05/robertson-blames-hurricane-on-choice-of-ellen-deneres-to-host-emmys/

Hollywood – Pat Robertson on Sunday said that Hurricane Katrina was God’s way of expressing its anger at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for its selection of Ellen Degeneres to host this year’s Emmy Awards. “By choosing an avowed lesbian for this national event, these Hollywood elites have clearly invited God’s wrath,” Robertson said on “The 700 Club” on Sunday. “Is it any surprise that the Almighty chose to strike at Miss Degeneres’ hometown?”

Robertson also noted that the last time Degeneres hosted the Emmys, in 2001, the September 11 terrorism attacks took place shortly before the ceremony.

“This is the second time in a row that God has invoked a disaster shortly before lesbian Ellen Degeneres hosted the Emmy Awards,” Robertson explained to his approximately one million viewers. “America is waiting for her to apologize for the death and destruction that her sexual deviance has brought onto this great nation.”

More at link....

[tomg]

1. Ah Jesus, doesn't this idiot ever stop.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

2. No.

you have to be kidding. Wow. just... wow.




wow.

[Norquist Nemesis]

3. When are these people going to wake up????

They need to put that man in a straightjacket and haul him off! Seriously!!!

[Child_Of_Isis]

4. This man is beyond ignorant.

Why don't the Christians get together and have him shut down?

[Southpaw Bookworm]

5. I'm so glad this is a satire site

Though you have to admit, it's not far from reality.

[ramblin_dave]

6. Gotta be satire. Right? Tell me it's satire. n/t

[mattclearing]

7. That's the dumbest shit I've heard in...well, sadly, hours.

The madness never ends in Bushworld.

[IChing]

8. dupe n/t

[IChing]

9. This has got to be satire? Right?

'We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability,'

[jumptheshadow]

14. Yes, it's satire

It's a satire site.

www.datelinehollywood.com

[ClusterFreak]

10. This seems insane, even by Pat Robertson's standards!!

It's just a completely insane claim to make, what is wrong with this man?? I mean, does he really think God is mad at Hollywood for picking a lesbian to host the Emmy Awards?? Cuz that's what Pat said, God is punishing New Orleans for Hollywood's choice of.....oh, I can't even finish this sentence...this is just too stupid!!
:crazy:

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Ok....now if you don't mind, I'm going to pull the fish hook from inside my mouth!!:dunce:

[cappy]

11. I was hoping this was a joke...

What is even scarier is how many people listen to and believe this moron. :wtf:

[JuniperLea]

12. There is nothing Christian about that man

He just keeps getting creepier and stupider and freakier.

Wasn't he ill not long ago? I think that was God telling him to STFU!

[phylla]

13. Problem is that because Robertson is so outrageous,

that we actually think that this could have come from him.

[TankLV]

33. Had me believing it without question at first glance.

That's how much of a pantload that creature is.

I wouldn't put it past him.

[NYC]

15. Real or satire? I really can't tell.

Robertson added that other tragedies of the past several years can be linked to Degeneres’ growing national prominence. September, 2003, for example, is both the month that her talk show debuted and when insurgents first gained a foothold in Iraq following the successful March invasion. “Now we know why things took a turn for the worse,” he explained.

Is this real or is it satire? I have no way of knowing. Please respond.

[NYC]

16. Satire. I found this:

SEAN PENN RETURNS TO NEW ORLEANS FOR RE-SHOOTS

Actor/activist says some Katrina victims flubbed lines in original rescues

Hollywood – Sean Penn returned on a raft to the hurricane-ravaged city of New Orleans Saturday for what he called “a few simple re-shoots.” The actor and activist returned on a chartered raft along with two cameramen, a cinematographer, a screenwriter doing last minute re-writes, and several victims he rescued last week that he placed back into flood waters and re-rescued. His spokesperson said the re-shoots provided for “better camera coverage” and “more believable dialogue during the crucial moments after Sean pulled victims into his raft.”

Same website. I think it's a shame I have to waste time figuring out if something is real or satire. Pat Robertson is so absurd that this absurd article could have been real. Why do we have people like that?

I don't even know if it is good news that this is satire because Robertson will likely blame someone else, unless he's keeping a low profile after calling for Chavez's assassination. (Otherwise, this article might have been real.)

[melody]

17. This is an Onion story, right?

Does Pat Robertson really think God is some cosmic Cleveland Amory doing selective strikes on cities to voice His/Her/Its disapproval with the Emmys??? This guy is morphing into his own satire.

You know, these knuckle-draggers who think "God made Man in His own image" clearly are creating God out of their own image, which should scare the shit out of anyone, being as how PR backs the Mayor of Munchkinland.

Oh, wait, it IS satire -- but what's really spooky is it was plausible enough for a moment that we bought it.

[bemildred]

18. Robertson's God continues to show the same lousy aim as always.

You'd think he would have bashed the Emmys if he was pissed at the Emmys.
I mean, he is omnipotent, right?

[chicagiana]

19. When a hurricane hits Hollywood ...

... than maybe Pat will have a point.

Does Pat not have any scope of the blashpemy he is committing???

[Waistdeep]

20. Of course it's satire

I loved the last paragraph:

“God already allows one awards show to promote the homosexual agenda,” Robertson declared. “But clearly He will not tolerate such sinful behavior to spread beyond the Tonys.”

[melody]

21. I speak fluent satire, but this guy is so nuts, it's hard to tell

[patdem]

24. I agree, when he agreed with falswell re the 9/11 attacks this was logical

for his insanity. I was fooled too! AND I am not unsually!

[MichiganVote]

22. Time for the nursing home Robertson. Its call Dementia...

Satire or not, the guys a geriatric nutjob.

[tomg]

23. I went right to the site, read the

article, and assumed it was real. It was only when I checked back in that I discovered ( oh alright, was told) it was a satire. Now that is strange. Normally I would be mortified. I've taught Swift, Artistophanes, and a few other satrists to college students. I'm not, though. The guy is crazy enough that, really, this isn't beyond him at all. When it comes to Pat Robertson, you never really know. You could even say that, relative to some of the stuff that comes out of him, this is pretty normal. And we all know he could just as easily say it for real tomorrow.

[TexasBushwhacker]

25. I was thinking the same thing

It's satire, but PR is so nuts, it's totally believeable.

[The Sushi Bandit]

26. Ok, I admit it...it's

semi-satire!

[MasonJar]

27. Isn't it time for him to be led out in a straight jacket and put in a

padded cell next door to Bush and Cheney. (They have to be in the same cell so they can coordinate their lies, a la 9/11 commission.

[RedCloud]

28. Let's buy Pat a one way ticket to Venezuela.

Let him go mano-a-mano with Chávez. Winner take all!

[watercolors]

29. Will somebody grab the butterfly net

This man is crazy , belongs in the looney bin!!

[rocktivity]

30. Rocknation Blames Hurricane on Robertson's Call to Assassinate Hugo Chavez

:evilgrin:
rocknation

[katty]

31. THIS is the mindset RUNNING AMERICA-it will only get worse

[cyr330]

32. Is this a joke?

I just have a hard time believing somebody could be this FUCKING stupid. What's REALLY sad is that every time the media has "American religious leaders" on for interviews, they always choose either (a) Pat Robertson, or (b) Jerry Falwell. Since when do they represent the religious views of a majority of Americans? They should both be locked up in Parchman Penitentiary in Mississippi and left there for life with all the little "extras" that an incarceration there includes. . .

[underpants]

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[WoodrowFan]

35. SATIRE!

It's funny, but it's NOT REAL. it's satire.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/katrina/robertson.asp