Koo koo ka choo, Mr. Robertson

mikeschmike · #1 01-03-2007, 05:09 PM

Pat Robertson Predicts Deadly Attack on U.S.
AP
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (Jan. 3) - In what has become an annual tradition of prognostications, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson said Tuesday God has told him that a terrorist attack on the United States would result in "mass killing" late in 2007.

"I'm not necessarily saying it's going to be nuclear," he said during his news-and-talk television show "The 700 Club" on the Christian Broadcasting Network. "The Lord didn't say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that."

Robertson said God told him during a recent prayer retreat that major cities and possibly millions of people will be affected by the attack, which should take place sometime after September.

Robertson said God also told him that the U.S. only feigns friendship with Israel and that U.S. policies are pushing Israel toward "national suicide."

Robertson suggested in January 2006 that God punished then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with a stroke for ceding Israeli-controlled land to the Palestinians.

The broadcaster predicted in January 2004 that President Bush would easily win re-election. Bush won 51 percent of the vote that fall, beating Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.

In 2005, Robertson predicted that Bush would have victory after victory in his second term. He said Social Security reform proposals would be approved and Bush would nominate conservative judges to federal courts.

Lawmakers confirmed Bush's 2005 nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court . But the president's Social Security initiative was stalled.

"I have a relatively good track record," he said. "Sometimes I miss."

In May, Robertson said God told him that storms and possibly a tsunami were to crash into America's coastline in 2006. Even though the U.S. was not hit with a tsunami, Robertson on Tuesday cited last spring's heavy rains and flooding in New England as partly fulfilling the prediction.

DrummerDeanna · #2 01-03-2007, 05:11 PM

I was just reading that!

The man is a loon.

mikeschmike · #3 01-03-2007, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

I was just reading that!

The man is a loon.

Completely and utterly.

Quote:

"I have a relatively good track record," he said. "Sometimes I miss."

This line really gets me. If he gets all of his predictions from the lord, wouldn't it be the lord's mistake if the prediction didn't come true? Is Pat Robertson calling the lord out on his/her flaws? That won't go over well...

skcin · #4 01-03-2007, 05:17 PM

The Lord didn't say nuclear, but did he say nucular?

DrummerDeanna · #5 01-03-2007, 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by mikeschmike

This line really gets me. If he gets all of his predictions from the lord, wouldn't it be the lord's mistake if the prediction didn't come true? Is Pat Robertson calling the lord out on his/her flaws? That won't go over well...

Maybe the Lord is just having a bit of fun with old Pat

Oooor...the man is a loon

chiliD · #6 01-03-2007, 05:26 PM

If it wouldn't make him a martyr, somebody should do away with him. But, sadly, he would become even MORE of an icon for the gullible feeble-brained.

gypsysoul · #7 01-03-2007, 06:04 PM

Maybe old Pat is related (psychically) to the useless clairvoyant a friend took me to see once.
This charlatan claimed he was getting messages from the 'other world' . They gave him such psychic gems as " I'm seeing that you have several options in this area of your life and what the spirits are telling me to tell you is......... that you must make a choice!"

BirdInFlight · #8 01-03-2007, 06:05 PM

This "God spoke to me" crap is ridiculous. Ol' Pat should just stop eating chili before he goes to bed.

Johnny Stew · #9 01-04-2007, 12:38 AM

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Originally Posted by chiliD

If it wouldn't make him a martyr, somebody should do away with him. But, sadly, he would become even MORE of an icon for the gullible feeble-brained.

It would seem that dementia is going to get him before anything (or any one) else does.
Hell, he's already 80% of the way there now.

michelle2677 · #10 01-03-2007, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by mikeschmike

Completely and utterly.

This line really gets me. If he gets all of his predictions from the lord, wouldn't it be the lord's mistake if the prediction didn't come true? Is Pat Robertson calling the lord out on his/her flaws? That won't go over well...

he must have been having an off day and heard incorrectly

i wonder if god would tell him if i should go ahead with caramel hi-lights or just light brown

estranged4life · #11 01-03-2007, 10:39 PM

I predicted that America would be attacked by some relig-a-tard and it seem I am ONCE AGAIN right...Thanks Pat, Ya bobble-headed bastich

wondergirl9847 · #12 01-04-2007, 12:50 PM

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"I have a relatively good track record," he said. "Sometimes I miss."

So, do psychics.

I'm sure something bad WILL happen this year...because of Iraq, Sadaam's death, etc. They just found 200 pounds of explosives in a car in Spain.

gldstwmn · #13 01-03-2007, 11:50 PM

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Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

I was just reading that!

The man is a loon.

Really. There's not much else that can be said about him.

Johnny Stew · #14 01-04-2007, 12:34 AM

The only people in America crazier than Pat Robertson, are the folks who send money to the 700 Club.

becca · #15 01-04-2007, 03:27 AM

We used to have to watch the 700 Club in class at a religious flake school I went to for a couple of years. I swear even twenty years ago those people spent more money on instructional cassette tapes and motivational message stickers than Amway sales people! One day there was a hurricane that Mr. Robertson and television satellite family prayed to have turned away from Virginia Beach and toward the sinful New York City. Man, did they do a church lady superior dance on that wacked out thing. I was already told I was possesed by then for making my teacher cry when I heckled a religious singer on the same show earlier.

Let's hope this kind of stuff stays funny, but geez is it sad in so many ways too! And I'm Canadian... how much weirder have things been down south??? I do not understand how the whole 'Christian media industry' thing has come from a collection of ancient writings. They have their own books nobody else buys, their own CDs, their own tv and radio stations, THEIR OWN FLOOR CLEANER, where do they rejoin the rest of society and get a bit of fresh air and perspective on things? Most Christians are not show-off egomaniacs who proclaim themselves saved and direct messengers of God like this, just as most Muslims are not psychotic hate-filled future human bombs. I'd say this guy is going senile except I know he has pretty much been like this for a long time now.

God bless everyone who has a brain and some humility, and protect us all from fanatics.