# Pat Robertson: "Be Nice To Charles Taylor!"
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-be-nice-to-charles-taylor/187584
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [July 10, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-be-nice-to-charles-taylor/187584 "2003-07-10T23:38:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-be-nice-to-charles-taylor/187584/21 "2003-07-12T02:58:44Z")
Give me a fucking break, **Read\_Neck**. Hillary once had a meeting with Taylor’s wife to talk about the plight of Liberian children. That amounts to support for a terrorist regime? Whatever. :rolleyes:
So what do you think of the Bush family’s long relationship with Osama bin Laden?
How about Rummy selling anthrax to Saddam?
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### Author:  [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2003, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-be-nice-to-charles-taylor/187584/22 "2003-07-12T03:45:17Z")
It’s a good thing I didn’t have any respect at all for Pat Robertson before, because this would have ruined it.
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### Author:  [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2003, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-be-nice-to-charles-taylor/187584/23 "2003-07-12T11:11:57Z")
I will scrape up some respect for Pat Robertson as soon as a Ben and Jerry’s Scoop Shop opens up in Hell.
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### Author:  [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2003, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-be-nice-to-charles-taylor/187584/24 "2003-07-12T11:11:57Z")
I will scrape up some respect for Pat Robertson as soon as a Ben and Jerry’s Scoop Shop opens up in Hell.
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### Author:  [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2003, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-be-nice-to-charles-taylor/187584/25 "2003-07-12T16:57:56Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Diogenes the Cynic \*
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> I would say that this should destroy Robertson’s credibility but he’s never really had any to begin with. This is the same guy, afyter all, who publicly opposed giving blacks the right to vote in South Africa (personal investments again). Robertson is a fucking scumbag. He’s nothing more than a carny show faith healer who hit it big on television. I can’t imagine why he’s ever been taken seriously as a political voice by anyone. \*\*
Amen.
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### Author:  [@Read\_Neck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Read_Neck)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-be-nice-to-charles-taylor/187584/26 "2003-07-13T00:09:16Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Diogenes the Cynic \*
> \*\*Give me a fucking break, **Read\_Neck**. Hillary once had a meeting with Taylor’s wife to talk about the plight of Liberian children. That amounts to support for a terrorist regime? Whatever. :rolleyes:
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> So what do you think of the Bush family’s long relationship with Osama bin Laden?
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> How about Rummy selling anthrax to Saddam? \*\*
Actually it was your posts that sent me on this search. It’s a bitch due to the timeline. The Monrovia byline and a book about Taylor “compensating” Jackson for his diplomacy is not much. Since you have a personal interest and experience on this subject any light you could shed would be appreciated but if you’re wanting a pissing contest I’m busy,maybe later.
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2003, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-be-nice-to-charles-taylor/187584/27 "2003-07-13T04:23:33Z")
You know, **Read\_Neck** , it wouldn’t surprise me a bit if Jesse Jackson had some shady dealings with Taylor. I’m not going to try to defend Jackson, I think he probably is the sleazeball that so many on the right believe he is.
With the Clinton’s, though, I doubt that anything more than a brief meeting and a photo op was involved. Clinton was a political pragmatist. There wasn’t much public interest in liberating Liberia (for those who even knew what it was. I can’t count the number of times that people thought I was talking about Libya when I told them I had lived in Liberia). Clinton may not have done anything about getting rid of Taylor’s regime but he wasn’t gaining anything from it either. Pat Robertson is extremely disingenuous and self-serving in his critcism of Bush in this case (and I can’t believe I’m defending GWB but I think he’s doing the right thing in Liberia).
I’m willing to call a truce (on this issue at least). 🙂
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### Author:  [@Read\_Neck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Read_Neck)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2003, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-be-nice-to-charles-taylor/187584/28 "2003-07-13T05:54:48Z")
I agree about the Clintons and there’s not a lot to say about the “sweetness and light brothers” but Lester Hyman is the interesting guy here. He has got to be one of the best Beltway landsharks of all time. He had Taylor doing photo ops with the politically elite when he should have been doing time for theft and a jailbreak in Massachusetts. I wonder who brokered the Robertson/Taylor deal? “Abracadabra”, Taylor’s a born again Christian. If OJ would have hired him he could have been the Governor of California by now. The guys a zero on ethics but you’ve got say his clients get there moneys worth.
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