# Pat Robertson Pit Thread Number 342: "Dover, Watch Your Bloomin' Arse!" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 10, 2005, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474 "2005-11-10T21:30:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/21 "2005-11-11T00:56:42Z")
The scary thing is that there are people who actually _listen_ to this fucknugget. Oh, well. I suppose there are people who worry about the little voices that **I** listen to. ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/22 "2005-11-11T01:03:26Z")
I’m generally “anti-” when it comes to suicide bombing. But I sometimes seriously think that killing certain people might indeed make my own life well-spent. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/23 "2005-11-11T01:08:05Z")
Ordinarily, I can’t stand CNN’s Jack Cafferty – except today. All he had to say about Mr. Robertson when his fellow talking heads handed off to him after a story on the latest inanity was “One day soon they’re just going to throw a net over that guy and take him away. I think it’s time for him to stay home and go on the Geritol.” That’s about as much comment as Pat merits, in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/24 "2005-11-11T02:01:40Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Is it possible Robertson is suffering from some kind of (recent) dementia? Or has he always said stuff like this? > > Even beyond the fact that he called for assassination, his claims later that he wasn’t talking about assassination (when there was no possible to parse what he said to NOT mean that) seems to indicate diminished capacity. No, it’s an ongoing thing. Right after 9/11, he and Falwell had a nice little circle jerk about how they deserved it (God’s vengeance for being queer). After the big tsunami he also had something stupid to say. The part about it that infuriates me is, after the shit hits the fan and rebounds back at him, he does not have the balls to stand by it. He starts waffling, quibbing, and trying to deny he said anything. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/25 "2005-11-11T02:25:00Z")
But… but… but… the “Intelligent Design” proponents in Dover double-pinky-swore that it had nothing to do with any particular religious belief. Surely they weren’t trying to pull some sort of scam? ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/26 "2005-11-11T02:33:05Z")
> [@Steve MB](#): > > But… but… but… the “Intelligent Design” proponents in Dover double-pinky-swore that it had nothing to do with any particular religious belief. > > Surely they weren’t trying to pull some sort of scam? Pat is living proof that there IS no intelligent design. If there was, Pat would have never come into existence, since he is a major leap backward. That commentator had it right. He needs to check into a rest home and get on some heavy medications. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/27 "2005-11-11T03:52:01Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > I’m sure someone around here has the exact quote memorized, but at the 92 GOP convention (may have been the 88 'vention) Robertson said that the goal of feminism was to lead young girls to paganism, lesbianism, and abortions. The _real_ quote is even more disturbng. But…but…wouldn’t having more lesbians lead to fewer abortions? I’m so confused. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/28 "2005-11-11T03:53:05Z")
Guys like Pat are in a peculiar situation, afterlife-wise. Either there isn’t a just and loving God, in which case he’s dead, or there is, in which case he’s _really_ in trouble. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/29 "2005-11-11T03:55:23Z")
Just a factual question, but does Robertson’s ministry have tax-exempt status? ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/30 "2005-11-11T03:56:35Z")
There’s plenty of stuff in that Book he keeps thumping, to condemn him for all eternity, plus some. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/31 "2005-11-11T04:08:29Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > Just a factual question, but does Robertson’s ministry have tax-exempt status? I believe he lost it when he used it to endorse his run for president. ---
**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/32 "2005-11-11T04:15:24Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > I believe he lost it when he used it to endorse his run for president. He lost it long ago. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/33 "2005-11-11T04:24:51Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > So is this the smoking gun proof that ID is really creationism? Exactly what I thought when I heard the good reverend’s threat. I thought that the ID advocates were bending over backwards to insist that the addition of ID to the science curriculum had nothing at all to do with religion, yet now Reverend Nutjob accuses the good people of Dover, PA of casting God out of their town by voting the ID advocates off the local school board. Isn’t their something against lying hypocrites in the Bible? (Maybe somewhere in the back?) ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/34 "2005-11-11T04:43:04Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > Wait. Are you saying this isn’t true? Butthead:“Dude, I wanna see some lesbians. Lesbians are hot” Beavis:“Yeah, Lesbians kick ass!” Damn you comedy central. ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/35 "2005-11-11T04:45:08Z")
Pat’s positively lunar in the regularity of his wacka-wacka pronouncements. So much so, I suggest a new sub-pit forum: **The FAP Pit** To isolate the Pittings of the Wacka-Wacka-but-why-are-they-still-public-figures? scratchings and mutterings of: **F** red Phelps **A** nn Coulter **P** at Robertson …and leave the Pit to piss on mods, Bush and shitty driving. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/36 "2005-11-11T05:08:50Z")
> [@](#): > > **jayjay** : Heh. Well, it DID rain around here yesterday…maybe it was just a warmup pitch! “The rain falleth upon the just and the unjust.” (Job: something or other) I find these words rather astounding: “You have no right to ask Him for help.” I have an idea. Let’s have a rough piece of stone carved with his own words above and the relevant quote from the Bible about how we will be judged in the same manner as we judge others. Sign it “Jehovah” or some variation. Then we can have it delivered to his door on the next stormy night. Hmmm. Of course, you’ll have to do the same to me for my judgment of him. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/37 "2005-11-11T05:19:03Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > Just a factual question, but does Robertson’s ministry have tax-exempt status? [At least part of it is.](http://www.patrobertson.com/Biography/index.asp) > [@](#): > > Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation, founded by Mr. Robertson in 1978, is a non-profit relief and development organization with a mission statement “to demonstrate God’s love by alleviating human need and suffering in the United States and around the world.” OBI has touched the lives of more than 175 million people in 96 countries and all 50 U.S. states, distributing more than $750 million in goods. To help break the cycle of suffering, OBI implements programs that focus on the primary goals of providing hunger relief, medical aid, disaster relief, and community development that will make a significant, long-term impact on those in need. I’ll leave it to the Doper legal beagles to explain the ins and outs of the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/38 "2005-11-11T05:19:41Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > I have an idea. Let’s have a rough piece of stone carved with his own words above and the relevant quote from the Bible about how we will be judged in the same manner as we judge others. Sign it “Jehovah” or some variation. Then we can have it delivered to his door on the next stormy night. Catapult? Flaming rope-and-pulley? Angry dwarfs in medieval costume? > [@Steve](#): > > Deuteronomy, 18:19, 20. “… However, a prophet who sinfully speaks a matter in My name which I did not command to speak and he speaks in the name of other God’s, **you must kill that prophet**.” (my bold) How much do you think the dwarfs will charge? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/39 "2005-11-11T05:30:08Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > I find these words rather astounding: “You have no right to ask Him for help.” Ditto. I don’t see how anybody could claim to know what the gospel is about and say something like that. I thought the whole point of the death of Jesus was that none of us are righteous enough to meet that standard of “deserving” to ask God for help. Pat Robertson is turning into Fred Phelps. I wonder if they actually have more common than Robertson wants people to know. ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2005, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474/40 "2005-11-11T05:34:21Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > **You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. - Anne Lamott** Great quote! Do you know which of her books or articles it’s from? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-pit-thread-number-342-dover-watch-your-bloomin-arse/330474.md?page=3)