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With Robertson, Giuliani Wins the Nutcase Primary?
What a day for Rudy Giuliani. After Mitt Romney was recently endorsed by Paul Weyrich, a founding father of the religious right (and the Heritage Foundation) and John McCain got the thumbs up from Senator Sam Brownback, a social conservative champion, Giuliani nabbed one of the biggest fish in the Christian right ocean: Pat Robertson. And unlike Brownback or Weyrich, Robertson has a television network.
By accepting Robertson's big wet kiss, Giuliani is excusing (or tolerating) Robertson's long record of religious bigotry. As I wrote back in 2000 when Robertson endorsed George W. Bush, Robertson once
said Episcopalians, Presbyterians and Methodists represent "the spirit of the Antichrist." He also maintained that "liberal Jews" were mounting "an ongoing attempt to undermine the public strength of Christianity." He has repeatedly called Hinduism "devil worship."
Media Matters also has kept track of Robertson's rhetoric of bigotry.
But there's something else about Robertson: He is nutty. I'm not merely referring to his belief that God sent a hurricane toward Disney World because the theme park had held a Gay Day. His conspiratorial view of global politics is--how to put it?--insane. He once claimed that President George H.W. Bush was doing the bidding of Satan. Literally. Here's how I described it years ago:
In 1992, Robertson published a bizarre book called "The New World Order." In this barely coherent tract, Robertson claimed there was a global (if elusive) conspiracy involving the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, other policy elites, secret societies and New Agers.
The goal of this nefarious coalition was to impose a new world order that would wipe out national sovereignty, foment a "complete redistribution of wealth," and bring about the "elimination of Christianity." The key to penetrating the plot, Robertson argued, was to see that the Gulf War [of 1991] that had been waged and won by President Bush was, in fact, "a setup."
This was Robertson's reasoning (using the word loosely): "Powerful people of the world wanted a situation that was so obviously dangerous to the entire world that all nations would join together to deal with it...[a situation] that would cause the nations of the world to forget for a time their own claims of sovereignty in order to submerge their interests into that of a worldwide authority such as the United Nations."
See what was going on? The conspirators cleverly and covertly had orchestrated the origins of the Persian Gulf crisis and then used Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait as a pretense for the first step toward a world government that would eventually obliterate Christianity and bring about all the other horrors Robertson feared.
Robertson revealed that the term "new world order," which Bush used to justify the Gulf War, has been for the past 200 years "the code phrase of those who desired to destroy the Christian faith ... They wish to replace it with an occult-inspired world socialist dictatorship."
Robertson based his unorthodox insights on his reading of the Bible. The anti-Saddam coalition, he observed, "was the first time since Babel that all of the nations of the earth acted in concert with one another." And as God showed with the Tower of Babel, he is not fond of nations toiling together...
And who did Robertson peg as the primary force behind this dangerous, anti-Christian new world order? The devil himself!
According to Robertson, President Bush was, wittingly or not, "carrying out the mission and mouthing the phrases of a tightly knit cabal whose goal is nothing less than a new order for the human race under the domination of Lucifer and his followers."
So Robertson called Daddy Bush a tool of Satan--a pawn for some dark, ultra-secret conspiracy. And he meant it.
Today, Giuliani said of Robertson:
Having him aboard gives us a great deal of confidence because he has a tremendous amount of insight into what the main issues are and how they should be dealt with. His advice is invaluable and his friendship is even more invaluable."
Well, I can just imagine those conversations during which Robertson shares all his insights about global affairs with Giuliani--particularly when he tries to clue in Giuliani about the netherworld-born plot of secret elites that makes the DaVinci Code conspiracy look like a Sunday school picnic. By the way, does Robertson know that Giuliani's chief foreign policy adviser is Charles Hill, who once was an aide to U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali? Could Hill be the hidden hand of Satan infiltrating the Giuliani campaign? Watch out, Pat!
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"With Robertson, Giuliani Wins the Nutcase Primary?"
Sad to say I think there is a case for a three way (or more) tie.
Thanks for all of your work.
Posted by: capt on 11/07/07 at 9:46 AM Respond
Pat was right about the "Liberal Jew". My Jewish mother brought me up to hate Christ and Christians. I think that some Jews can relate to that.
Pat is an opportunist and will put his money on who he thinks will win. Don't forget Pat is sly like a fox. He made $1billion from selling the family channel to ABC (Disney), not to mention his investments throughout the world. He has a law degree from Yale(who else do you know who went to Yale?), he failed to pass the bar exam, shortly thereafter underwent his religious conversion, and decided against pursuing a career in law. It is traumatic not to pass the bar.
Posted by: Sherman on 11/07/07 at 10:11 AM Respond
I love you guys. You come right out and call it like you see it.
Except you forgot to mention the rest of the nut cases. The republican party.
Posted by: Michael Emerson on 11/07/07 at 10:54 AM Respond
So...you don't believe in the "The New World Order." ??
Ever heard of Bohemian Grove?
This is maybe the only sane thing Pat has said.
Posted by: Bruce on 11/07/07 at 1:55 PM Respond
they deserve each other.
Posted by: gloria on 11/07/07 at 3:26 PM Respond
The NWO is real. Too bad most of us will not see it until the dollar is worthless and we are all begging bread. Of course by then the entire elite of the USA will be residing in the Middle East.
Posted by: mimi on 11/07/07 at 5:39 PM Respond
They DO deserve each other. But does the USA deserve another incompetent, a puppet of a "sly fox" like Robertson? Rich guys like to win--no matter what the people vote!
Posted by: Betty on 11/07/07 at 6:47 PM Respond
Pat Robertson...what a tool! His rants would be completely laughable except for the fact that there are people out there that really believe the offal that spews from his mouth and will mindlessly vote for the candidates Robertson supports. For a time there were a few Republican candidates I could have been interested in but as the campaign season approaches and they begin to ditch their original convictions and pander for the support of the religious right, I've lost all interest in them. Until the Republican Party finds a moderate voice, I'll never be able to support their candidates.
Posted by: John on 11/07/07 at 7:41 PM Respond
Pat Robertson is a man of God. And He is correct. Satan is behind much of the world's ills. People should be careful when putting down one of God's own. Good day.
Posted by: catherine berryhill on 11/07/07 at 7:56 PM Respond
Politics does indeed make strange bedfellows. For Pat Robertson to endorse a transvestite who cohabited with a gay couple would not long ago have been unimaginable. But there have always been seismic shifts in the hated others; in the 1950s and 60s it was communists and African-Americans. By the 1970s and 80s it had become liberals, liberated women, homosexuals and those who have, perform or advocate abortion.
Now it is Muslims–ostensibly “Islamofascists”, but in practice all Muslims. Right wing Jews and Christians have joined forces to support the Israeli far right and an aggressive Middle East policy. One wonders what kind of backroom deal was cut between the ex-mayor and the evangelical entrepreneur who heard the divine voice after repeatedly failing the bar examination and thereby earned such Godly favor as to be able to advise the Almighty on meteorology, as well as politicians on policy.
Most likely it involves judicial appointments, as just one more radical neocon justice would turn the STAR (Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Roberts) Chamber into a solid, reliable 5 vote majority. Rudy surely wouldn’t mind selling out his erstwhile pro-choice and pro-gay rights friends for the support of Robertson’s legions, the red-state, redneck, red-ink voters who have become the party’s power base.
Posted by: AlexLawyer on 11/07/07 at 8:17 PM Respond
When one reads all this religious crap from just across the border, one wishes whole heartedly for the US to be wiped off the face of the Universe. The world would truly be a better place. But, that would do injustice to the few decent people left down there. A piece of Wood advise to those who are looking for an answer to the still posted question: Why do they hate us ? Look into the mirror, and read all about the Pat Robertsons of this world...
Posted by: maxe on 11/07/07 at 8:42 PM Respond
When one reads all this religious crap from just across the border, one wishes whole heartedly for the US to be wiped off the face of the Universe. The world would truly be a better place. But, that would do injustice to the few decent people left down there. A piece of good advise to those who are looking for an answer to the still posted question: Why do they hate us ? Look into the mirror, and read all about the Pat Robertsons of this world...
Posted by: maxe on 11/07/07 at 8:44 PM Respond
Two religious nuts who deserve each other...(the real problem lies with people who would even consider any of the presidential candidates supported by the religious right, in any way shape or form...
Posted by: christopher flynn on 11/08/07 at 8:48 AM Respond
The New York Jews have their money on Senator Hiliary because she will do their bidding and bomb Iran which will cause an economic depression so the prices will be cheap for certain people to buy up the place even more. This Robertson fellow is a harmless old man, unlike the New York Jews.
Posted by: Joey on 11/08/07 at 11:57 AM Respond
I thought the former New York mayor would be a good choice for the republican party. Now with Robertson on board, he's just another "backwoods" republican who hopefully won't get to rule the country I call HOME.
Posted by: mary kay on 11/08/07 at 1:25 PM Respond
Corn is correct - Robertson is a bigoted nut. One has only to look at his track record to confirm this. The Christian "coalition" - once so powerful within the Republican Party - is now perceiving its own fragmentation and demise. God bless the separation of church and state!
Posted by: JWM on 11/08/07 at 6:28 PM Respond
Well, well! I see from one of the posts that anti-semitism is alive and well in the good old USA! And we all thought that was just something that happened in Europe! Don't have a thoughtful opinion, then blame it on the ______ (fill in your favorite group to slander).
Posted by: John on 11/09/07 at 1:03 AM Respond
Catherine B.- blaming a mythical Satan for the ills of the world is just a way of avoiding responsibility for the greed, selfishness, and hatred we harbor in our own selves. We hear people like Robertson and his far right supporters call on us to 'love our neighbors' and 'feed his people' - as long as they are people deemed to be acceptable and as long as it doesn't cost us too much out of our pockets and as long as it doesn't ask us to make personal sacrifices. We' heard the Robertsons and the Falwells make bigoted statements blaming various groups for the ills facing America. We've seen them support an American President that has lied to the public and led us into an unjust war. We've seen them call on that President to veto bills that would provide money for childrens healthcare because it would cost us too much or that it would support people 'that don't deserve it', we've seen them support measures to reduce taxes on the wealthy to the detriment of average Americans. We've seen them support legislation that's good for big business but that allows jobs that feed and cloth Americans to be shuttered here and sent overseas where big business can avoid having to pay a living wage. And what happens when someone happens to disagree with these 'men of God'? You get a warning not to put down this man of god. You get called a traitor for not blindly supporting an unjust war, you get called un-American and "Godless Liberals". Well, I guess I'm just an traiterous, un-American godless Liberal and I'll take my chances that God doesn't have much more use for Pat Robertson and the other braying donkeys out there that are misleading people that I have for them!
Posted by: john on 11/09/07 at 1:51 AM Respond
John, you don't see yourself. You are a Christophob. Many posts here demonstrate that Christophobia is alive and well.
Posted by: Joey on 11/09/07 at 7:43 AM Respond
Well Joey, I've certainly been called worse over the years! My understanding of the message of Jesus is probably quite different than those of evangelical persuasions and because of this, I'm never going to agree with or support the Pat Robertsons of the world as long as their messages support greed, bigotry, hatred of others they don't agree with or whose life styles they don't like personally, etc. If that makes me a "christophobe", so be it!
Posted by: John on 11/09/07 at 10:02 AM Respond
Another road sihn on the road to theocracy. And see http://ebar.com/common/inc/article_print.php?sec=guest_op&article=73
Posted by: John on 11/09/07 at 2:26 PM Respond
Bronze-age superstition grows like pond-scum. Will we as a race ever be able to think past the 'big-spook-in-the-sky' nonsense?
Posted by: Dave McDonald on 11/09/07 at 4:38 PM Respond
Dave, what nonsense are you spouting. Who are you calling a spook? Sounds racist to me.
Posted by: Troy on 11/09/07 at 6:06 PM Respond
Robertson is part of the evil that Jesus, not the made up figure of christ, talks about!
Posted by: Rodney Byrd on 11/10/07 at 7:10 AM Respond
Rodney, I bet that you also think that The Holocaust is made up too. You are just another one of these Christophobs.
Posted by: Betty on 11/10/07 at 7:50 AM Respond
http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/traps/2007/11/10/pat-robertsons-endorsement-of-giuliani-is-a-big-deal/
Posted by: traps on 11/11/07 at 2:20 AM Respond
Nutcase Nation is alive and well on Mother Jones. Well, free speech is to be defended nevertheless. It's still better than being trapped in a room with Dinesh D'Souza. Mother Jones is very understanding in letting her strays and orphans post here; they are all welcome.
"The New York Jews have their money on Senator Hillary"????
"Pat Robertson is a man of God. And He is correct. Satan is behind much of the world's ills. People should be careful when putting down one of God's own. Good day."????
Posted by: George on 11/11/07 at 2:11 PM Respond
Believing that religion is a superstitious belief is not saying that historical events like the Holocaust did not exist. There were witnesses to events like the Holocaust, there are historical documents, there are historical sites such as the remains of the death camps and the mass graves, etc. These demonstrate an actual event took place. If your religious beliefs are threatened just because someone else doesn't believe in it and all you can do is call them a christophob, then you have more of a problem that we do. Just as you believe in holy scriptures, I can speak that I've done enough reading in theological history over the years to realize that the so-called religious texts were what remained after people with agendas compiled a canon of texts that matched their viewpoints and destroyed those that failed to support them. That much is known to us from the historical record. For instance, it is known that there were other Christian gospels than those found in the current Bible. However, historical church councils over the centuries winnowed out many of those, leaving only the four. We know of the other gospels from the writings of the councils. Many of the remaining were destroyed, with only a few tantalizing ones hidden away to be found again this last century in fragmentary pieces (I'm extremely intrigued by the fragments of the Gospel of Mary and wonder what the full text would tell us). You may trust that God's hand led them to include only the truth. I myself don't have that much trust in men when they have an agenda they want to push forward, or when the truth doesn't coincide with what they believe. Of course, for those who don't have strong supporting arguments for their beliefs, they can always fall back on the old "call them names and villify them" since that works for many of the flock.
Posted by: John on 11/17/07 at 7:08 PM Respond
John, if what you say is true, why is it that historians can not investigate these allegations in Europe. It is because a whole industry is based upon it. There are hundreds of eye witnesses to the Resurrection. Christians view the unbelief of the Resurrection the same way that Jews view the unbelief of the 6 million(it was only 1 million, which is 1million too many, but why lie and say 6million).
Posted by: Christopher C. on 11/18/07 at 7:02 AM Respond
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