# Pat Robertson wants to nuke the State Department **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 10, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-wants-to-nuke-the-state-department/206708 "2003-10-10T18:23:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-wants-to-nuke-the-state-department/206708/21 "2003-10-11T00:58:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GMRyujin \* > You know, if a guy with a name like “Mohammed al Mohammed” was saying things like this, he’d be rotting in a prison cell right now… > > I’m just saying… Bingo. Good call, **GRMyujin**! Perhaps now, many level headed people will finally take heed of what a potential menace the “Christian” far right can be. I hope every Republican winces when they remember how Robertson addressed their national convention a few years ago. To quote Sinatra about Nancy Reagan: _“Dumb … dumb and dangerous.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-wants-to-nuke-the-state-department/206708/22 "2003-10-11T01:07:46Z")
PS: Thank you for starting this thread, **Exprix**. The instant I saw the news about this I knew I would start one if no one else did. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-wants-to-nuke-the-state-department/206708/23 "2003-10-11T01:56:55Z")
I’m loving this Morgan Freeman thing. So apparently it takes a better actor to play God than to play a chauffeur? ---
**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:** [October 11, 2003, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-wants-to-nuke-the-state-department/206708/24 "2003-10-11T02:35:50Z")
**GRMyujin** is spot on. That’s just insane. I guess it goes to show you that fanaticism knows no single creed nor people. ---
**Author:** ![PhDMetalhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e274bd/32.png) [@PhDMetalhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhDMetalhead)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-wants-to-nuke-the-state-department/206708/25 "2003-10-11T02:48:10Z")
Bottom line is this: This shit is far worse than anything the Dixie Chicks ever did, 100-fold more “unpatriotic” than anything Susan Sarandon, Michael Moore, or anyone else I’ve ever heard has said about our current dipshit President. Where are all the great “Patriots” from these past scandals? Any one of 'em who doesn’t stand up and disown Robertson NOW, I got one thing to say to 'em… You are the most sorry, HYPOCRITCAL piece of shit wasting oxygen on this planet today, and I hope you burn in Hell right next to Pat (which is damn sure where he’ll be if some latter-day McVeigh among his flock of demented acolytes tries to follow through with some sort of attack on innocent people…) NUKE THE FUCKING 700 CLUB!!! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-wants-to-nuke-the-state-department/206708/26 "2003-10-11T03:04:29Z")
We need to consider the effect this kind of unpatriotic declaration has on the morale of our brave men and women overseas. ---
**Author:** ![Beagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Beagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beagle)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-wants-to-nuke-the-state-department/206708/27 "2003-10-11T03:10:16Z")
I’m pretty sure I saw aluminum tubes while I was in REM sleep and the 700 Club was on. Cuff him, Dano. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-wants-to-nuke-the-state-department/206708/28 "2003-10-11T03:18:24Z")
My father has been in the State Department for over twenty years. He spends his time beteween overseas tours and working in Washington. He was in the State Department building on 9/11. There was a false alarm that day about a truck bomb being spotted near the building. I had to call my dad to make sure he was ok. Pat Robertson wants to murder my dad. :mad: My dad was in Nam. I wonder what Pat was doing for his country at that time. Will this finally be the last straw. Will the political right finally disavow this lousy piece of shit? Will the yahoos that burned those Dixie Chicks CDs rise up with the same vitriol now? I doubt it. ---
**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:** [October 11, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-wants-to-nuke-the-state-department/206708/29 "2003-10-11T03:24:15Z")
Hell, I have to wonder what **december** would’ve said about this. Of course, I can’t remember him being a real fan of Robinson, but you never know… ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-wants-to-nuke-the-state-department/206708/30 "2003-10-11T03:56:18Z")
I’m just waiting for Ann Coulter to say that this incident only shows that we should stop pretending Americans are civilized, invade their country, and convert them to Christianity. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-wants-to-nuke-the-state-department/206708/31 "2003-10-11T04:54:28Z")
Can I say it? Can I say it? _puts on deep, right wing voice_ Pat Robertson must really HATE AMERICA! Hee hee hee! ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-wants-to-nuke-the-state-department/206708/32 "2003-10-11T05:23:32Z")
[hijack] Morgan Freeman was one of the first African-American Presidents, and one of the first African-American Gods, in mainstream American cinema (I say “one of the” because I don’t want to be caught by some movie I’ve forgotten). If he’s not divine, I’d be surprised! 🙂 [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-wants-to-nuke-the-state-department/206708/33 "2003-10-11T05:55:36Z")
Jay Leno says it, it’s funny. Pat says it, people take him seriously. Geez. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-wants-to-nuke-the-state-department/206708/34 "2003-10-11T06:04:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Diogenes the Cynic \* > > Pat Robertson wants to murder my dad. :mad: Well, **that’s** torn it. Our jokes are now limited to plays on _Foggy Bottom_. Thanks, **Diogenes**. ---
**Author:** ![cmason32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@cmason32](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmason32)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-wants-to-nuke-the-state-department/206708/35 "2003-10-11T06:32:19Z")
So the Dixie Chicks can be ashamed of Bush and receive the treatment they did, but Robertson can call for the nuking of Washington D.C. and no one seems to care. Same thing with Novak; if a Dixie Chick had leaked the name of a CIA operative you can bet they’d be in trouble. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-wants-to-nuke-the-state-department/206708/36 "2003-10-11T06:47:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cmason32 \* > \*\*if a Dixie Chick had leaked the name of a CIA operative you can bet they’d be in trouble. \*\* If a Dixie Chick had leaked the name of a CIA agent, the first thing I’d want to know is when the CIA had started recruiting petite fiddlers in belly shirts for its operations. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-wants-to-nuke-the-state-department/206708/37 "2003-10-11T06:47:36Z")
I’m not real crazy about the idea that Robert Novak has top secret clearance. If the Dixie Chick have it as well, so what? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-wants-to-nuke-the-state-department/206708/38 "2003-10-11T06:55:26Z")
Actually, I’ve always thought the _Landslide_ remake was a plot to awaken Northwoods Sleeper Stevie Nicks. ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-wants-to-nuke-the-state-department/206708/39 "2003-10-11T07:00:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by HumanStromboli \* > \*\*Which dorm? > > I was an RA my last two years in Thurston Hall. After the 1,000th drunk freshman puked in the hallway, yeah, I started wishing for nukes too. 😛 > > But yeah, Robertson’s an idiot. \*\* This thread has brought back lots of memories. Sure, it’s supposed to be about tearing down Pat Robertston, but it looks to me like it’s just a place for us SDMB GWU graduates to congegrate. Damn, HumanStromboli, an RA in Thurston, I hope that included danger pay. And, well, as far as Robertson goes - he sold his channel, right? More and more, I hope, he will be pushed towards the margins, and soon enough we will barely even notice when he talks. pat ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2003, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-wants-to-nuke-the-state-department/206708/40 "2003-10-11T07:55:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > Shouldn’t someone sick Ashcroft on his ass? Yes, please? I’d love to see “Pat Robertson Detained For Terrorist Threats” splashed across the front page of my newspaper in big, fat, bold, 300-point text. 😃 > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Saint Zero_ > Jay Leno says it, it’s funny. > Pat says it, people take him seriously. Offhand, I don’t recall Jay Leno ever making any jokes where the punch line involved killing hundreds of people with a nuclear device… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-wants-to-nuke-the-state-department/206708.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pat-robertson-wants-to-nuke-the-state-department/206708.md?page=3)