# Dede Robertson died
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dede-robertson-died/963097
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [April 20, 2022, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dede-robertson-died/963097 "2022-04-20T03:22:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dede-robertson-died/963097/1 "2022-04-20T03:22:43Z")
I put this in The BBQ Pit because MPSIMS has a rule against religious jabs in breaking news.
News [here](https://www.aol.com/news/dede-robertson-wife-religious-broadcaster-010302784-014122695.html):
> NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Dede Robertson, the wife of religious broadcaster Pat Robertson and a founding board member of the Christian Broadcasting Network, died Tuesday at her home in Virginia Beach, the network said in a statement.
So she was a co-founder of “Christian” Broadcasting Network. That’s enough to say, well, some un-Christian comments about her. I recall only tuning into that station once and I was appalled at the hatred and bigotry, not to mention the twisting of Scripture, on display. And her “dearly” departed husband of The 700 Club fame was certainly not an example of good Christian ministry.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dede-robertson-died/963097/2 "2022-04-20T03:25:55Z")
> [@Monty](#):
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> And her “dearly” departed husband of The 700 Club fame was certainly not an example of good Christian ministry.
Pat Robertson is still very much alive, and was still hosting _The 700 Club_ until late last year.
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### Author:  [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dede-robertson-died/963097/3 "2022-04-20T03:27:07Z")
Thanks for the correction.
Hey, we can call it wishful thinking. 😉
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### Author:  [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dede-robertson-died/963097/4 "2022-04-20T03:40:35Z")
I believe I’m mature enough to set my petty bullshit aside and – sincerely – wish their loved ones …
[ ](https://d3gqasl9vmjfd8.cloudfront.net/741f2ec0-387f-4660-9e20-3e2f7003c0a9.jpg)
Amen.
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### Author:  [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dede-robertson-died/963097/5 "2022-04-20T03:45:04Z")
That’s hilarious!
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dede-robertson-died/963097/6 "2022-04-20T10:59:44Z")
Speaking of tots…
The normalization of cannabis use is amazing. When I was a kid, weed was a drug, right there with cocaine and heroin.
Today, my local grocery store (Giant Eagle) is giving out a free order of tots if you present a coupon, which I received via email, in recognition of today being 4/20.
It’s cute/subtle. Marijuana is never mentioned. It’s all wink, wink.
OK back to dissing the dead lady.
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dede-robertson-died/963097/7 "2022-04-20T11:32:48Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#):
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> Pat Robertson is still very much alive, and was still hosting _The 700 Club_ until late last year.
I think you mean his re-animated, desiccated corpse is still hosting _The 700 Club_.
Sorry - that’s very mean. But then so is Robertson, who has made a career bilking frightened elderly and other credulous people out of their money and poisoning the political landscape with nonsensical quasi-religious bullcrap.
I’m sorry for his loss at a personal level, but I still don’t like him.
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### Author:  [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dede-robertson-died/963097/8 "2022-04-20T13:05:37Z")
> [@Gyrate](#):
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> I still don’t like him
In 2013 I was still doing in-home hospice caregiving. It was rare to be in a home that didnt have Fox News or whatever that vile show Pat Robertson was always hosting on. April 15, 2013, was no different. That day ol’ Pat spent the _entire fucking day_ (or the many hours of if I was forced to listen to him, anyway) preaching about how that days events in Boston were a sign that God hates what our society has become, hates the gays, hates the dark-skinned furriner in the white house, hates… well everything, apparently. It was _our_ fault the bombing happened and _our_ fault all those innocent people died but waitaminnit now they werent really innocent because they probably loved gays and Obama and… on. And on. And on. And on. IOW God did it but its our fault for making him angry.
Robertson a truly vile, repugnant human being. To paraphrase Clarence Darrow, while I dont exactly wish for his death, it’ll be happy for day when I can read his obituary.
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### Author:  [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dede-robertson-died/963097/9 "2022-04-20T13:24:45Z")
‘You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.’
–Anne Lamott
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### Author:  [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dede-robertson-died/963097/10 "2022-04-20T13:38:55Z")
> God knows what he’s doin’
> He wrote this book here
> An’ the book says: “He made us all to be just like him”
> So, if we’re dumb
> Then God is dumb
> (an’ maybe even a little ugly on the side)
- _Dumb All Over_ by Frank Zappa
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### Author:  [@irae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irae)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dede-robertson-died/963097/11 "2022-04-20T14:12:40Z")
It is poor form to speak ill of the dead, so please imagine me performing an interpretive dance I call ‘Schadenfreude’.
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### Author:  [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dede-robertson-died/963097/12 "2022-04-20T15:21:18Z")
One of the big drawbacks with being an atheist is that unlike those who believe in an afterlife we don’t get the satisfaction that comes with a final I told you so.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dede-robertson-died/963097/13 "2022-04-20T15:26:11Z")
> [@kayaker](#):
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> It’s cute/subtle. Marijuana is never mentioned. It’s all wink, wink.
[ ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRyLPC_f8rm4Ux-adBGlQRwvUOWFNWzkXDaFw&usqp=CAU)
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2022, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dede-robertson-died/963097/14 "2022-04-20T15:47:30Z")
Hehe, yep. As a buddy of mine keeps pointing out, we used to hide in the woods to smoke a bowl, spray ozium to mask the odor, use Visine and breath mints. Now we sneak a hit off a pen in Target.