Remember that Pat Robertson - Charles Taylor connection?

[ck4829]

"Robertson recently ignited a media firestorm when he called for the assassination of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez during a broadcast of The 700 Club. He has also blamed the 9/11 attacks on America's tolerance of abortion and homosexuality and declared the Supreme Court a greater threat to the United States than Al Qaeda. Robertson assiduously cultivates his celebrity with remarks like these, casting himself as a divisive bigot to his foes and a righteous prophet to his allies in Christian right circles. But there is much more to Robertson than the headline-grabbing hothead he plays on TV.

Far from the media's gaze, Robertson has used the tax-exempt, nonprofit Operation Blessing as a front for his shadowy financial schemes, while exerting his influence within the GOP to cover his tracks. In 1994 he made an emotional plea on The 700 Club for cash donations to Operation Blessing to support airlifts of refugees from the Rwandan civil war to Zaire (now Congo). Reporter Bill Sizemore of The Virginian Pilot later discovered that Operation Blessing's planes were transporting diamond-mining equipment for the African Development Corporation, a Robertson-owned venture initiated with the cooperation of Zaire's then-dictator Mobutu Sese Seko.

After a lengthy investigation, Virginia's Office of Consumer Affairs determined that Robertson "willfully induced contributions from the public through the use of misleading statements and other implications." Yet when the office called for legal action against Robertson in 1999, Virginia Attorney General Mark Earley, a Republican, intervened with his own report, agreeing that Robertson had made deceptive appeals but overruling the recommendation for his prosecution. Two years earlier, while Virginia's investigation was gathering steam, Robertson donated $35,000 to Earley's campaign--Earley's largest contribution."

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050919/blumenthal

Isn't that convenient?

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Omigod, What am I gonna do??

I agree with Pat Robertson!!
He's right--The Supreme Court is a greater threat to the US than Al Qaeda!

[Swamp Rat]

2. LOL!

:D

[ladywnch]

3. And is the Virginia Pilot going to publish that story.........

investigate the AG and show the HE was bribed....expose it ALL!!!!

[panader0]

4. Has there ever been an evangelist that wasn't a crook?

Maybe Billy Graham. Even with him I'd bet there's some dark secrets. (Although I did see a photo of him once where his shoes had a hole in the bottom, a sign of humility)