Questione: Did Pat Robertson make his suggestion on ABC?

[King Coal]

Or did he do it on cable TV? Does it make a difference?

[benburch]

1. Doesn't make a difference that I am aware of. nt

[Cocoa]

2. makes a difference for the FCC

but he said it on his own network CBN, which buys time from the cable channels ABC Family.

[havocmom]

6. ABC Family on cable: Teaching America's young OK to kill those you hate

There's some wholesome family values to consider! :eyes:

Might be time to list sponsors, write letters and boycott. It's what Robertson's followers do when they don't like what gets broadcast. He doesn't have commercial sponsors for his program, but the network does. Let them know where you won't be spending your $$.

Past time to look into revoking Robertson's enterprise tax exemption.

http://www.theperspective.org/patrobertson_taylor.html

But then Robertson is a man of contradictions, a self-proclaimed righteous man whose actions often betray his words. Shortly after the Sept.11 tragedy, according to GQ, an upscale men's fashion magazine, Robertson posted an odd message on his Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) web site. "The focus of many in America has been the pursuit of health, wealth, material pleasures and sexuality." He continued "Sadly, those in the churches have been as self-indulgent as those in the world."

But while he was calling into question the morality of others, Pat Robertson was actively engaged in a questionable, cutthroat gold-mining arrangement - for wealth - with Taylor, the infamous West African terrorist. And we suppose the good man of the cloth finds nothing inherently wrong dealing with a ruthless, corrupt dictator, who enriches himself while his people sink farther into squalor and destitution.

We now know that in April 1999, Charles Taylor and Pat Robertson signed a document labeled "Mineral Development Agreement between the Republic of Liberia and Freedom Gold Limited". By signing his agreement, Taylor was, in fact, assigning gold mining concession rights to Pat Robertson from an established businessman, Ken Ross II, whose Bocon Jideh gold-mining operation dates back to the Tolbert administration.

According to the GQ article, Pat Robertson has committed at least US$15 million of investment to Freedom Gold. The terms of contract call for Freedom Gold to spend about US$500,000 annually in investment and rental fees in Liberia. "The agreement gives Freedom Gold the right to mine, sell, export and explore minerals, with an additional 3 percent royalty rate to be paid to the government of Liberia."

http://www.ctlibrary.com/8422

When televangelist M. G. "Pat" Robertson tried to buy into a Scottish bank in 1999, a public outcry forced the bank to cancel the deal. Now Robertson is taking flak for another business deal. In 1998, Robertson formed a $15 million company, Freedom Gold Limited, to look for gold in Liberia. In 1999, the company signed an agreement with the government of Liberia to begin gold-mining operations.
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The first and loudest denunciations have come from The Washington Post. Colbert King, the Post's deputy editorial page editor, has published a series of articles excoriating Robertson for the deal, and especially for the involvement of Liberian President Charles Taylor. King noted that the agreement gives a 10 percent equity to the Liberian government.

In a letter to the editor, Robertson denied that the Liberian government owned part of the company. Robertson wrote that Freedom Gold has hired 130 Liberians "and is assisting Liberians in gaining a better life." In "Christian Liberia," he added, "Freedom Gold has found freedom of religion, freedom of movement, freedom of expression, and what appears to be a judiciary dedicated to the rule of law."
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King derided as "bunkum" Robertson's upbeat description of conditions in Liberia, and noted that the United Nations has placed an arms embargo on Liberia. King quoted a State Department official who said the U.S. government "has not encouraged either trade or investment in Liberia due to the absence of the rule of law and President Taylor's support for armed insurgencies."

http://www.skeptictank.org/robem2.htm

In April, 1997 two pilots who worked for Operation Blessing charged that planes linked to Robertson and his ministry flew mostly to haul equipment for ADC's private diamond operation. Robert Hinkle, the chief pilot told reporter Bill Sizemore that of about 40 flights within Zaire during the half-year period he was there, "Only one or at most two" were related to the humanitarian mission of Operation Blessing. The rest were "mining-related."

"We got over there and we had 'Operation Blessing' painted on the tails of the airplanes, Hinkle told the Virginian-Pilot, "but we were doing no humanitarian relief at all. We were just supplying the miners and flying the dredges from Kinshasa out to Tdshikapa."

If so, that activity could jeopardize Operation Blessing's special tax exempt status. It also highlights Robertson's network of projects and corporations mixing religion, politics and private business.

Robertson talks about morality, cashes checks from people who can ill afford to send them, spends the $$ on get rich quick schemes with despots, tells his followers who should be assassinated. He is NOT a legitimate religious preacher. He is a hustler thug. At least make him pay taxes on his haul.

[Beaver Tail]

3. It was on CNN

But benburch is right. It does not make a difference because he does represent The 700 Club in everything he says.

[Sgent]

4. There are some

channels that show the 700 club over the air, and are not cable based.

Channel 32 in North Mississippi for one.

That being said, the widest distribution is cable, but it is also played over the airwaves.

[mattclearing]

5. It doesn't matter, because it has been rebroadcast everywhere now.

That said, I'm pretty sure the 700 Club is broadcast on UHF airwaves all over the country.