# What Pat Robertson meant
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pat-robertson-meant/318676
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 26, 2005, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pat-robertson-meant/318676 "2005-08-26T03:07:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Lillith\_Fair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lillith_Fair)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2005, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pat-robertson-meant/318676/1 "2005-08-26T03:07:19Z")
What Pat Robertson meant, obviously, was
“Someone should take him out to dinner at a nice restaurant.”
It must have been taken out of context.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2005, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pat-robertson-meant/318676/2 "2005-08-26T03:14:30Z")
Oh, my Babel fish must be on the blink again. 😉
I never did master crazy old religious zeolotese.
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### Author:  [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2005, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pat-robertson-meant/318676/3 "2005-08-26T03:49:36Z")
Other possibilities:
“Take him trout.” —What with all the religious significance of fish, it would be a nice peaceful gesture.
“Take him oat.” — Some healthy food might just soften that mean Venezualian.
“Make him pout.” — Self explanatory.
“Fake him out.” — Fooled you, buddy. Now stop with all that anti-America stuff.
“Talk him out.” — Pat might just be the man for the job.
Dang media always misinterpretin’…!
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### Author:  [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2005, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pat-robertson-meant/318676/4 "2005-08-26T13:02:39Z")
No, clearly what he meant was “take him out - to the ballgame”. I mean, everyone knows that baseball will soften even the meanest of hearts.
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### Author:  [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2005, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pat-robertson-meant/318676/5 "2005-08-26T13:43:24Z")
Hmm. I was under the impression that he meant that we should set him up with a blind date. Well, it was that, or he meant that someone should send a high caliber explosive round through his skull, transmogrifying the contents of the brainpan into a fine mist coating his surroundings. But really, I think the blind date thing is more obvious.
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### Author:  [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2005, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pat-robertson-meant/318676/6 "2005-09-01T00:57:19Z")
Maybe he meant it in the sense that he wanted to go to Venezuela himself and have the guy get into the ring and do a “Rocky” on him.
Now THAT would be a sight to see. 😃
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2005, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pat-robertson-meant/318676/7 "2005-09-01T02:12:14Z")
There was a glitch in the teleprompter and part of the script was missing. The original line was: **Someone should take him ou** _r warmest regards and hope that he someday sees the error of his ways so that he can change the policies of his governmen_ **t.**
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### Author:  [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2005, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pat-robertson-meant/318676/8 "2005-09-04T08:14:19Z")
…or even mean, given Robertson’s misgivings about his statement.
In the 1980s Robertson, apparently looking for a Presidential nomination in 1988, said he hoped that some Supreme Court Justices would pass on so Reagan could appoint new justices who would overturn _Roe v. Wade._
Well, I just read on the SDMB about Chief Justice Rehnquist. ☹
I hope for Robertson’s sake that this has ricocheted painfully in his mind…
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### Author:  [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2005, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pat-robertson-meant/318676/9 "2005-09-04T12:31:44Z")
I don’t know, seeing that Venezuela offered to send oil, money and food to the US in the wake of Katrina, maybe someone _did_ take him out – and he scored!
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2005, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pat-robertson-meant/318676/10 "2005-09-04T18:20:43Z")
> [@](#):
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> This may sound macabre…
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> …or even mean, given Robertson’s misgivings about his statement.
The only misgiings Robertson had about his statment were that Bush’s handslap might cost him (Pat) a few bucks in donations.
This is the guy who ranted against racial equality in South Africa for years while his investments were supporting (and being repaid by) the _apartheid_ policies of the government.
Robertson makes Paisley look Christian–or, at least, less of a hypocrite.
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### Author:  [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2005, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pat-robertson-meant/318676/11 "2005-09-05T08:08:11Z")
> [@tomndebb](#):
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> The only misgivings Robertson had about his statement were that Bush’s handslap might cost him (Pat) a few bucks in donations.
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> This is the guy who ranted against racial equality in South Africa for years while his investments were supporting (and being repaid by) the _apartheid_ policies of the government.
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> Robertson makes Paisley look Christian–or, at least, less of a hypocrite.
I don’t know who Paisley is, and I’m getting so I wish I didn’t know who Robertson is.
I wish I’d heard the Justices’ comments (unless they considered comments to be infra dig) on Robertson’s statements in the mid-80s.
Robertson’s race hypocrisy reminds me of an Ashleigh Brilliant quote: “I’ll always be faithful to the current trend.”
Compare Titus 1:6. ☹
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2005, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pat-robertson-meant/318676/12 "2005-09-05T08:16:21Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#):
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> In the 1980s Robertson, apparently looking for a Presidential nomination in 1988, said he hoped that some Supreme Court Justices would pass on so Reagan could appoint new justices who would overturn _Roe v. Wade._
> Well, I just read on the SDMB about Chief Justice Rehnquist. ☹
> I hope for Robertson’s sake that this has ricocheted painfully in his mind…
That’s a nice thought, but while there’s probably a lot of room for thoughts to ricochet in his head, I doubt it will do so painfully. He can’t be totally sad Rehnquist is dead. He will probably be replaced by a younger conservative who can serve for decades, whereas it’s been obvious for some time that Rehnquist wasn’t going to live much longer. If John Paul Stevens died tomorrow, I think Robertson would say his prayers have been answered.
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### Author:  [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2005, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-pat-robertson-meant/318676/13 "2005-09-05T08:52:24Z")
> [@Marley23](#):
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> That’s a nice thought, but while there’s probably a lot of room for thoughts to ricochet in his head, I doubt it will do so painfully. He can’t be totally sad Rehnquist is dead. He will probably be replaced by a younger conservative who can serve for decades, whereas it’s been obvious for some time that Rehnquist wasn’t going to live much longer. If John Paul Stevens died tomorrow, I think Robertson would say his prayers have been answered.
[sourly] His _own_ prayers.[/sourly]