# Pat Robertson, scam huckster? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 8, 2001, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-scam-huckster/80342 "2001-09-08T03:36:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-scam-huckster/80342/1 "2001-09-08T03:36:35Z")
(Note, I’m not sure this is the right forum, maybe it belongs in MPSIMS, but will start here and see what happens.) Okay, I accidentally found myself watching the 700 Club, and caught a “story” about Pat Robertson. We’re all familiar with him hawking his religious beliefs on us - and I suppose that could be its own debate over whether it’s a scam or not. 😉 Now he’s promoting a special health shake that is supposed to revitalize and keep you healthy. There was the regular laundry list of health effects, including preventing cancer, promoting vitality, increasing energy, and the general list with any type of “dietary supplement” making the rounds. And of course their evidence is him working out in a gym with weights, doing leg presses of 600 lbs or so, and of course his busy life. What more evidence does one need to see the truth about him? I mean, it’s not like he was selling emergency supply kits for the impending Y2K catastrophe. :rolleyes: Does _anybody_ out there actually trust him? About anything? ---
**Author:** ![Philosophocles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Philosophocles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philosophocles)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-scam-huckster/80342/2 "2001-09-08T05:33:02Z")
How about the money from his Operation Blessing charity that Robertson used to support his African diamond mining venture? ---
**Author:** ![december](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@december](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/december)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-scam-huckster/80342/3 "2001-09-08T17:54:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Irishman \* > \*\*Does _anybody_ out there actually trust him? About anything? \*\* PR is a disgusting swindler – taking advantage of the weakest and most ignorant in society for his own personal gain. He’s a huge embarasment to me as a conservative. ---
**Author:** ![Sea\_Sorbust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Sea\_Sorbust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sea_Sorbust)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-scam-huckster/80342/4 "2001-09-08T20:45:08Z")
I confess that I would prefer this title: **Pat Robertson: Well-meaning Patsy for Aliens?"** [sub](Hoo-boy. And I thought I got a flaming for suggesting that Congress outlaw the Big Bang Theory!)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-scam-huckster/80342/5 "2001-09-09T00:28:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Irishman \* > **I mean, it’s not like he was selling emergency supply kits for the impending Y2K catastrophe** True, but if you’re still here after the rapture, you’ll need to be in top physical shape if you want to battle the Antichrist and his minnions. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-scam-huckster/80342/6 "2001-09-09T04:09:12Z")
Any links to the promo for the Miracle Juice (maybe it’d cure me of being too lazy to do a search for it)? ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-scam-huckster/80342/7 "2001-09-09T04:41:43Z")
[Pat Robertson’s Age-Defying Shake](http://www.cbn.com/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID2546%7CCHID101024%7CCIID745914,00.html) Would you like fries with that? ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-scam-huckster/80342/8 "2001-09-09T04:50:45Z")
Well that stinks… you have to register to get into the full description of the recipe. I’ve discovered, quite by accident, that “straightdope” works as both the username and password, in case you don’t want to register yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Harvey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@Max\_Harvey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Harvey)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-scam-huckster/80342/9 "2001-09-09T05:32:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by december \* > **PR is a disgusting swindler – taking advantage of the weakest and most ignorant in society for his own personal gain.** And doing it with that goofy, Joker-like grin on his face. What makes him think he can say things like > [@](#): > > “You say you’re supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don’t have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don’t have to be nice to them.”–Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, January 14, 1991 but it’s not hatred as long as he’s smiling? (And how in hell do you love someone without being nice to them?) More sweetness and light can be found [here](http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7027/quotes.html). ---
**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:** [September 9, 2001, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-scam-huckster/80342/10 "2001-09-09T20:15:20Z")
> [@](#): > > “When I said during my presidential bid that I would only bring Christians and Jews into the government, I hit a firestorm. `What do you mean?' the media challenged me. `You’re not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe in the Judeo Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?’ My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.’” --from Pat Robertson’s “The New World Order,” page 218. Oh yes-even though it’s unConstitutional to make people take a religious test. D’uh! > [@](#): > > “Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It’s no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history.”–Pat Robertson, 1993 interview with Molly Ivins Hyperbole much? > [@](#): > > “The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians.” – Pat Robertson, fundraising letter, 1992 Well, Pat, thinking about you naked is enough to turn me into a lesbian… > [@](#): > > “If anybody understood what Hindus really believe, there would be no doubt that they have no business administering government policies in a country that favors freedom and equality. … Can you imagine having the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as defense minister, or Mahatma Gandhi as minister of health, education, and welfare? The Hindu and Buddhist idea of karma and the Muslim idea of kismet, or fate condemn the poor and the disabled to their suffering. … It’s the will of Allah. These beliefs are nothing but abject fatalism, and they would devastate the social gains this nation has made if they were ever put into practice.” --Pat Robertson’s “The New World Order,” page 219. Psst-Pat, your ignorance is showing! Karma is the law of what goes around comes around, although not it’s not quite that simple as my crude little definition. Sheesh! > [@](#): > > “Many of those people involved with Adolph Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals–the two things seem to go together.”–Pat Robertson, “The 700 Club,” 1/21/93 Silly me, I thought Hitler was going AFTER the gays! But they were still supporting him? Yeah…um, okay. > [@](#): > > “I think we ought to close Halloween down. Do you want your children to dress up as witches? The Druids used to dress up like this when they were doing human sacrifice… [Your children] are acting out Satanic rituals and participating in it, and don’t even realize it.”–Pat Robertson, “The 700 Club,” 10/29/82 > > That’s right, here he chooses to go after Halloween, of all things. Man, being Pat Robertson’s kid must have sucked. (Hehehe…I just had to include the webmaster’s quote…) ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2001, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-scam-huckster/80342/11 "2001-09-09T20:33:13Z")
Does Dick Gregory still have his Formula Four X? I heard it was good. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-scam-huckster/80342/12 "2001-09-10T03:33:32Z")
Interesting that he’s willing to hype this stuff to anyone 13 or older. So much for parental involvement. And Pat, if you disable my “back” button one more time, it’s fire and brimstone, buddy. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2001, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-scam-huckster/80342/13 "2001-09-16T19:16:17Z")
More proof: [Robertson + Falwell: It’s the Liberals’ Fault . . .](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=87062&pagenumber=1) ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2001, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-scam-huckster/80342/14 "2001-09-16T22:14:28Z")
Has anybody read about that internet assassination thing where we all put up a buck and soon somebody has a million dollar pricetag on his head? ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2001, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-scam-huckster/80342/15 "2001-09-16T22:39:47Z")
Take consolation in the fact that if indeed there is a Hell he is headed straight for it. ---
**Author:** ![djf750](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@djf750](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djf750)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-scam-huckster/80342/16 "2001-09-17T00:59:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zenster \* > \*\*Take consolation in the fact that if indeed there is a Hell he is headed straight for it. \*\* any world with that asshole in it IS hell ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-scam-huckster/80342/17 "2001-09-17T04:32:43Z")
> [@](#): > > “The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that > encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, \*\* practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians \*\*.” – Pat Robertson, fundraising letter, 1992 _Shirley’s Agenda Check List:_ Ditch husband and start a love nest with Angelina Jolie. Bring the World Market Place to it’s knees. (Memo to self: cut up Visa.) Make a magic potion that will make Pat Robertson’s penis fall off in the next hooker’s mouth he puts it into. [sub] Oh, sure he has, he just hasn’t been caught yet [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-scam-huckster/80342/18 "2001-09-17T06:27:21Z")
Um, Irishman? I believe you misspelled scum sucker. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-scam-huckster/80342/19 "2001-09-17T06:56:24Z")
He’s slime. The last time I saw his bile spewing show was in 1994, when he was hawking videos of the “Homosexual Agenda.” As leader of Gay Agenda International, I was offended by his defamatory and slanderous twisting of our peaceful, loving agenda to enslave humanity. I think he needs a hug… from an iron maiden. ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-scam-huckster/80342/20 "2001-09-17T11:45:12Z")
[Moderator Hat: ON] furt said: > [@](#): > > Has anybody read about that internet assassination thing where we all put up a buck and soon somebody has a million dollar pricetag on his head? So, tell me, furt – are you _trying_ to get thrown out of the SDMB? Because lately, that sure looks to be your goal. I really think it’s time for you to consider taking a breather and calming down for a while before you post anything further that might shorten your stay here. * * * David B, SDMB Great Debates Moderator [Moderator Hat: OFF] [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-scam-huckster/80342.md?page=2)