# Is Tom Tommorow full of it? Is Robertson Al Queda?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tom-tommorow-full-of-it-is-robertson-al-queda/146882
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [January 6, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tom-tommorow-full-of-it-is-robertson-al-queda/146882 "2003-01-06T04:46:03Z")
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### Author:  [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tom-tommorow-full-of-it-is-robertson-al-queda/146882/21 "2003-01-06T16:46:30Z")
I don’t think the issue here is whether there is Liberian blood on Pat Robertson’s hands, but whether or not Robertson’s being a hypocrite. He denounces a significat portion of the American population as the cause of the September 11 attacks, yet his investments go to a corrupt politician who also receives payments and offers safe haven to the organization behind those attacks.
Does that directly connect Robertson to al-Qaeda? Not really. But even those indirect links are stronger and more provable than the “links” between Iraq and al-Qaeda that the Bush administration (supported politcally and financially by Robertson) are touting. If Robertson were actually more worried about fighting al-Qaeda than his investment in a gold mine, he’d have divested by now. If the Bush administration were actually sincere about this whole mess they would have put this issue into the spotlight and pressured Robertson to withdraw.
Tom Tomorrow isn’t calling Robertson al-Qaeda. He’s muckraking. Something that this administration sorely deserves.
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2003, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tom-tommorow-full-of-it-is-robertson-al-queda/146882/22 "2003-01-06T22:16:22Z")
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> **RickJay**
> Liberia was a shithole before, too. Primarily because it’s run by crooks. That doesn’t excuse Taylor.
Liberia was bad before, but it was nothing compared to what it’s been under Taylor. I lived in Liberia for two years under the previous (Doe) regime. Liberians were poor and Doe was a paranoid asshole but it was still a fairly tolerable country (as third world countries go). People were not subjected to the widespread brutality that they have been under Taylor.
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> **Brutus**
> Taylor is up for reelection this year. Did he state that he will not allow elections to take place?
I’m not sure if you’re being serious or not, but let me reassure you, “elections” under Taylor (and Doe before him) are every bit the farce that they are in Iraq.
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### Author:  [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2003, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tom-tommorow-full-of-it-is-robertson-al-queda/146882/23 "2003-01-07T02:30:45Z")
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> \*Originally posted by december \*
> As **Diogenes** rightly points out, “[Robertson’s] not invested in ‘Africa,’ he’s invested in a gold mine in Liberia.” Similarly he’s not invested in Taylor’s government, he’s invested in this one gold mine. Does this gold mine have bad practices? Tom Tomorrow doesn’t bother to make that assertion. He merely uses guilt by association.
A hallmark of governments like that of Liberia is that it’s almost impossible to do business there without getting in bed with the local kleptocrat.
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### Author:  [@barton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barton)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2003, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tom-tommorow-full-of-it-is-robertson-al-queda/146882/24 "2003-01-07T02:50:23Z")
Hilarious. I immediately envisioned another panel: Robertson and Bin Laden kicking back. “You told them /homosexuals/ were to blame? God is SO great!”
Seriously, if Robertson thinks he has moral ground to stand on, I have news for him - he’s levitating.
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### Author:  [@verybdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verybdog)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tom-tommorow-full-of-it-is-robertson-al-queda/146882/25 "2003-01-07T02:52:19Z")
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> \*Originally posted by SuaSponte \*
> \*\*…My own opinion is that if you want to depose a dictator, you go in, kill his army, and string him up. Guess that makes me a “liberal hawk.”
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Is your name Condoleezza Rice?
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### Author:  [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tom-tommorow-full-of-it-is-robertson-al-queda/146882/26 "2003-01-07T20:38:14Z")
😕 Nope, I’m not Condoleeza Rice.
I guess what you are saying is that “liberal hawk” is a misnomer. Wake up and smell the coffee: Bosnia changed a lot of things - we liberal hawks are numerous and influential. Why do you think that the anti-Iraq war movement isn’t gaining traction? Because a good percentage of the American left has moved away from the knee-jerk “US military is bad” attitude.
Sua
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### Author:  [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tom-tommorow-full-of-it-is-robertson-al-queda/146882/27 "2003-01-08T16:37:42Z")
Tom Tomorrow is the Jack Chick of political correctness. Lower below the belt than that I cannot hit.
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