Chicago Tribune: Reverend Terminator

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Reverend Terminator

August 24, 2005

Give the wacky Rev. Pat Robertson this much: When it comes to death wishes, he doesn't necessarily discriminate between friend and foe.

In a televised interview in 2003, Robertson suggested nuking the U.S. State Department as punishment for its errant foreign policies. As we say in Chicago, make no little plans.

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Also in 2003, Robertson exhorted his viewers to pray for the resignation of three U.S. Supreme Court justices--he didn't name names, but specified that they be an 83-year-old, one with cancer and another with a heart ailment. As 2005 dawned and Robertson's prayers hadn't been answered, he might have grown frustrated. He wasn't. He announced early this year that God had told him: "I will remove judges from the Supreme Court quickly. ..."

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And remember that Robertson's moral indignation is selective. In 2003--a busy year for him--he slammed the Bush administration's calls for Liberian President Charles Taylor to resign. A UN-backed tribunal had indicted Taylor for war crimes in Sierra Leone. You see, some of Robertson's financial investments happened to be tied up in Liberia. Ah, morality is in the details.

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