Robertson: Judges worse than Al Qaeda

BY DEREK ROSE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Federal judges are a more serious threat to America than Al Qaeda and the Sept. 11 terrorists, the Rev. Pat Robertson claimed yesterday.

"Over 100 years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings," Robertson said on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."

"I think we have controlled Al Qaeda," the 700 Club host said, but warned of "erosion at home" and said judges were creating a "tyranny of oligarchy."

Confronted by Stephanopoulos on his claims that an out-of-control liberal judiciary is the worst threat America has faced in 400 years - worse than Nazi Germany, Japan and the Civil War - Robertson didn't back down.

"Yes, I really believe that," he said. "I think they are destroying the fabric that holds our nation together."

Robertson's comments came with a showdown looming in the Senate over seven of President Bush's conservative judicial nominees who have been blocked by Democrat filibusters. Republicans have threatened a "nuclear option" to pass the judges by rewriting Senate rules to stop the filibusters.

Sources told the Daily News that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist lacks the 50 votes he needs, which could be a blow to his presidential hopes. "I don't think Frist has the votes," a GOP aide said. "He's now in his own corner. If he doesn't have the votes, he's really screwed."

Robertson echoed that sentiment. "I just don't see him as a future President," Robertson said.

With James Gordon Meek

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Does anyone take him seriously?

Unfortunatly yes. Luckily he is a semi peaceful ass hole.

GV...if he must die, then i suggest you be the martyr and do it, instead of sitting there criticizing everyone and their mother, go and do something about it instead of a bag of hot air

5/3/2005
Pat Robertson: Madman:

The Rude Pundit's been wondering for a long time why interviewers still talk to Pat Robertson, a crazed, hubris-filled idiot who tells people to put their hands on their TVs and their emphysema will disappear, those nasty non-healing wounds will close, and they'll get erections that last for days. And the reason was made crystal clear on Sunday's This Week: because Pat Robertson is head pudsucker of the batshit insane troop of headline whores and you never know what nutso shit is gonna spout from that smarmy mouth of his.

Apparently, the filibustering of a few judicial nominees by Democrats is "the most serious threat America has faced in nearly 400 years of history, more serious than al Qaeda, more serious than Nazi Germany and Japan, more serious than the Civil War," as host George "Behold My Gorgeously Coifed Bedhead Hair" Stephanopolopolopoulos put it, to which Robertson oozed, "George, I really believe that. I think they are destroying the fabric that holds our nation together. There is an assault on marriage. There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law."

Quick run-down here: Nazi Germany and Japan, in addition to the whole genocide thing, killed hundreds of thousands of Americans in a war. The Civil War ripped apart the nation, creating divisions that last until today, resulted in more than 600,000 deaths, and the assassination of a President. Al-Qaeda's 9/11 attack not only killed 3000 people, but it undermined the way in which Americans relate to each other and the world. "Activist" judges might end up allowing gay people to get married. Seems like a fair comparison, no?

But, in case you doubt Robertson's word, well, there's higher authorities that will put the smite down on your disbelief. Stephanopolopolopoulos played a clip from earlier in the year where Robertson told 700 Club viewers (known here in Real World Central as "fucking idiots") what God told him was going to happen: "What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts."

Robertson said to Stephanopoulos that things were on the path for God's words to come true, and that, while God doesn't change the laws of nature (because, you know, he invented them), he is listening: "In terms of human affairs I do think he answers prayer and I think there have been literally millions of people praying for a change in the Supreme Court. The people of faith in this country feel they're on a tyranny and they see their liberties taken away from them and they've been beseeching God, fasting and praying for years, so I think he hears and answers their prayers."

Two problems here: 1) How fucking out of your mind do you have to be to "fast" so God will listen to your "prayers" over the Supreme Court? 2) And, really, and the Rude Pundit's said this before, is God's PDA so empty that he's got the time to fuck around about whether the next Supreme Court nominee is really, really fucking insane right wing or just plain ol' fucking insane right wing? 'Cause, see, if the Rude Pundit were an all-powerful deity, he might wanna change some hearts in Darfur or, say, North Korea.

See, in clinical terms, Pat Robertson is, well, crazier than a shithouse rat (look it up: that diagnosis shows up in the DSM-IV, right after "crazier than a shitfight in a monkeyhouse"). Whatcha wanna go with? Delusional Disorder, Grandiose Type? Where one can be a functioning person, just having shit like voices in your head, and delusions of "inflated worth, power, knowledge, identity, or special relationship to a deity." Paranoid Personality Disorder? Marked by a sense that "disaster is on the horizon," that "the world is full of enemies," that "accidents are doubtful; negative events are initiated by others with hostile intent," that "all events relate to self," that the individual is "never to blame or guilty (others are)," and that the individual is "different from the rest of humanity, often with pretensions of having unique awareness or insight."

Damn, there's nothing finer than watching the crazy people on the TV. It's like putting a webcam in the waiting room at Bedlam - who knows what's gonna happen? Will someone try to chew off her own arm? Will someone grin with glee as he pisses himself? Will someone just stand there and shriek? Or will someone answer the voices in his head, calmly, rationally? They're always the scariest ones in the asylum.

wait this is the 700 club guy right?

well, now it's official. He's an Idiot.

Another one of the blessed Theocrats.

no I don't wish his death.

I just think he's a nutcase but I think that about anyone that desires a Theocracy.



It's more fun listening to Pat O'brien

I heard a bit of this interview on Sunday, and at first I didn't know it was Pat Robertson saying that crap .. so I flipped out. A lot of "wtf????" and all that.

Then when my b/f told me who George S. was interviewing, I was like, "oh him. he's always spouting off like that." I just hope he's not speaking for the majority of those on the right ..

but this:



well, that's just plain crazy.

well, I'm willing to chip in $50 towards hiring a hitman.

If I wanted to use up my one get out of jail free card and kill someone, I wouldnt waste it on Pat Robertson. I mean, sure, the guy has completely lost his mind (that is, if he ever had it to begin with). But there are plenty of others I would stick on my kill list before this guy.

what if I gave you $50?

$50 and also Park Place, then you've got a deal.

This whole attack on judges/the judicial system makes me so angry that I am having a tough time articulating my thoughts. The main thing that bothers me is the whole idea of 'activist judges'. Judges, by nature, are supposed to be impartial (hence the whole checks and balances, appointment for life thing). Yes, politics can and do enter into a judges life/decisions on occassion, BUT by and large they make their rulings based on the law and precedents from prior rulings. This is not activism; it's protecting the U.S.' basic laws from people who are too activist. Plus, the judges that the radical right want to appoint are precisely what they are railing against... activist judges. Man, I feel like I'm living the book 'Catch 22' when I listen to this shit!! Ok, now I'm all pissed off!

I watched the 700 Club one time and Pat Robertson was proclaiming that DDT should be made legal again because mosquitos were sent from Satan or some shit.

"I was bitten. Must have been the devil."

I'm surprised he hasn't been taken down yet

there must be a list of Pat Robertson quotes on the internet somewhere like Dubya has.

*googles*

edit: boy, that was easy.

http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/revpat.htm

NEVER, NEVER, NEVER watch the 700 Club while on shrooms. The guy seriously looked like Satan. I can only imagine how bad a acid trip with Pat Robetson would be.

You only see the unfiltered truth when tripping, my friend.

over the last hundred years? is this guy still pissed about brown v. board of education? aww/