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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 06:02 AM
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Pat Robertson: Harmless Kook, or Dangerous Maniac?
should we just laugh at yet another obscenity ejaculated from brother pat's mouth? he's such a great source of comedy and ridicule.

or should we be genuinely frightened by him and his fanatical devotees?

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NRaleighLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 06:05 AM
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1. Or, a tool for Rove/the misadministration to create another diversion
from Plame/Rovegate?? Part of me thinks that the misadmin must jump with glee when they get bumped off of the MSM news focus. just wondering, that's all....
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wake.up.america Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 06:10 AM
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3. He is dangerous not because he will pick up a bazooka and ...
starting firing away, it is because members of his sect will feel emboldened to continue their stupidity, which might include picking up a bazooka and firing away at the unbelievers.

Unbelievers, gee isn't that what radical Muslims call non Muslims?
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 06:09 AM
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2. A harmless kook doesn't have hundreds-of-thousands of followers...
...so that makes him a dangerous maniac.

The very definition of a Christo-fascist.:thumbsdown:
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Missy M Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 06:10 AM
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4. I think he is both...
Edited on Wed Aug-24-05 06:14 AM by Missy M
a Harmless Kook to normal people with intelligence but a Dangerous Maniac because of his followers who agree with him and seem to VOTE in droves.
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 06:18 AM
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6. I am with you on this
For the life of me I do not understand why so many people go along with this as we came from an Age of Reason. Rousseau and Locke must be spinning in their grave along with Jefferson and Adams.:crazy:
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flakey_foont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 06:10 AM
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5. he should be at the very least
taken off the air.............I believe that he should be held accountable and not get to weasel his way out
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Past_World_Doubt Donating Member (30 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 06:19 AM
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7. I'm going to put my bet on dangerous maniac and stick to it.
He was all over the radio talking about killing Hugo Chavez, why in the world doesn't the government fine him?
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wake.up.america Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 06:34 AM
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12. That's cute. Are you impling that he is on government payroll?
Well, he does not pay taxes as he should.
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 06:20 AM
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8. .. as long as he gets a "pass" from M$M..
he is a dangerous radical cleric and should be homelanded outta here!
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union_maid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 06:22 AM
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9. Not harmless
No one with the kind of media reach he has is harmless.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 06:23 AM
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10. He's NOT a harmless kook.
He's amassed a fortune over the years. His holdings and that of his ministry are enormous. He has a lot of money at his disposal. And he has a significant base of supporters. And entree into the Oval Office itself.

This is NOT some wacky "kook" we can sit back and laugh at.
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Smarmie Doofus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 06:29 AM
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11. He provides a window into what they are actually thinking.....
Does anyone doubt that there are contingency plans ( and maybe more than that) to do to Chavez exactly what Robertson advocated?

In a way, this jackass is performing a public service in spite of himself.

BTW, in all of the coverage, why is the fact that Chavez was (twice) ELECTED never( ok, *rarely*)mentioned?
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Cessna Invesco Palin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 06:37 AM
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13. Harmless maniac?
Dangerous Kook?
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wli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 10:33 AM
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14. should've been a poll... dangerous maniac n/t
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