Was this part in Joel too?
I’ll have to admit that picking on Pat Robertson isn’t as much fun as it once was. He’s more of a tragic figure to me. He went to my high school [a decade earlier] where he was surely taught by my father. He sort of wandered from school to school after that – a smart guy from a wealthy family with not too much direction. Then he went on the air in the early t.v. days and pioneered the televangalist movement that has been so destructive.
He’s always been megalomaniacal, hard to watch because he’s so full of it. He wasn’t the kind of overt crook that Jim Bakker or so many others were, which made him even more dangerous. He says the kind of thing he said about Sharon or Chavez all the time, it’s just more noticable now people are keeping up with him. He doesn’t seem to get it what’s gotten people so upset. He’s become used to being unconfrontable, and doesn’t seem to understand why he’s the target of derision. His letter of apology to Sharon’s son is bizarre. I doubt he wrote it himself. Like our president, he seems to think that if he thinks it, it’s right and above question.
My guess is that we won’t be hearing from him much longer.
My guess is that we won’t be hearing from him much longer.
I do hope you’re right there.
What I find amusing is that Robertson didn’t apologize until it became clear that his latest hateful blathering was going to scuttle his plans to develop “Six Flags over Jesus” and thereby hurt his own pocketbook.
Why am I not surprised by that?