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Pat Robertson muses on Doctors "plow[ing] into" women [VIDEO]

Posted by Evan Derkacz at 5:41 AM on April 27, 2007.


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"Just think of having rocking waves while you're getting your insides plowed into by some doctor. That doesn't sound like fun to me..."

I'm sorry, I know it's like shooting fish in a barrel, but could Pat Robertson be more of a caricature of himself? Is it possible? If it weren't revered by millions as a not thoroughly insane voice he'd almost -- almost -- be bordering on that doddering old uncle (I'm blind in one eye and I can't see outta the other...) you know is repugnant but you forgive him because he's, well, not the figurehead of a large swath of your fellow Americans.

The newscaster says that the Women on Waves ship will make Mifepristone (aka RU 486) available to women off-shore of countries that do not currently allow women to make decisions for themselves.

A P-I-L-L. Is CBN so bad the good reverend doesn't even watch his own news agency?

Or perhaps the reverend does not care. He resorts to the domain of the impotent: fear and lies. He talks about women "getting [their] insides plowed into by some doctor."

That has to be one of the most repulsive uses of language I've heard in months. Jesus.

Okay, now forget about Robertson and read about the history of Women on Waves here...

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In other news, doctors are pissed at the Supreme Court's recent ruling as it does not have, how you say, meaning...

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Evan Derkacz is an AlterNet editor. He writes and edits PEEK, the blog of blogs.


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HEAVEN help the women?
Posted by: Chickensh*tEagle on Apr 27, 2007 7:54 AM   
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Pat, those women are going for abortions! And you're praying for heaven to help them?

Pat, are you backsliding in your old age? Looks like we're going to have to get up a prayer vigil for you!

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» RE: HEAVEN help the women? Posted by: Lauren
adso
Posted by: adso on Apr 27, 2007 9:19 AM   
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Good Lord, Pat...is that how most medical procedures get described, "plowing into your insides"? It's a nitpicky point, I know...

The real surprise came when it began to sound like you actually cared about the health of the mother...we could only hope...

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» New course at Regent University Posted by: eddie torres
What'd he say that was so offensive?
Posted by: Mojoe on Apr 27, 2007 11:13 AM   
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Does someone watch Pat Robertson 24/7 just to wait for him to utter one sentence that doesn't make sense? Obsession with the opposition? Leave the old coot alone. You make yourself look pathetic when you go after the pathetic.

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Pat has lost his mind...........
Posted by: tap17x on Apr 27, 2007 11:21 AM   
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...........and it's a tossup whether it's due to booze, drugs, old age and Alzheimer's, or just Christianity.

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» It's just out on loan Posted by: eddie torres
» RE: It's just out on loan Posted by: FrozenFox
Lunatic fringe, or fringe lunatic.
Posted by: JayMagoo on Apr 27, 2007 11:49 AM   
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It's clear Pat Robinson has gone "round the bend." The problem is that George W. Bush has given Robinson the privilege of planting 150 graduates of his numb-dumb university's law school in key positions throughout the Federal government. These right-wing, Lunatic fringe evangelical Christians of Robinson's are now making key decision such as what seven US Attorneys were fired and why, removing science from the Interior Department's gift shop at the Grand Canyon and replacing it with a Flat Earth text, challenging good science with respect to Global Warming, and helping Tom DeLay push through an egregiously partisan redistricting of Texas congressional districts. Robinson would be laughable if he weren't given so much power by George W. Bush.

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Euthanasia for Pat
Posted by: fmajor7 on Apr 27, 2007 2:01 PM   
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I propose passing a special law to allow voluntary euthanasia for Pat R. Or send him to Holland where its quite legal !
It amazes me that AlterNet can't find anything interesting to write about except this half-dead creature. It also amazes me (and many others) that millions of Americans still listen to him, Radio stations and TV channels still give him air time.
And the scary thing is that there are so many like him all over the country.

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WHICH CHRIST APPEARS FIRST, AGAIN?
Posted by: Roverton on Apr 27, 2007 3:02 PM   
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The real one or the false one?

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How utterly pathetic
Posted by: Steven Wanzell on Apr 27, 2007 10:57 PM   
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This guy's still a laugh a minute!

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Rockin' the waves is standard fare for ol' Uncle Pat
Posted by: doinaheckuvajob on Apr 30, 2007 1:36 PM   
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and the way he wriggles around when he does his little aw shucks, I'm just a country lunatic little ol' preacher gone millionaire investing in dictators and sex slave operators...

I've got a blind trust fund and the best Christian attorneys (a few Mafia ones tossed in there for good measure, because their work is exceptional), so any wrongdoing with my finances is beyond my personal knowledge.

I've got free reign now to talk about how those feminists are giving little pills of Satan on rocky waters to our women who should bear fetuses we love, children and adults we hate.

Amen, now let us pray for that mental condition of Mrs. Gefilteheitz in Cleveland, all that pain is gone now in sweet Jebuses' name.

His routine is chock full of self satire moment by moment. Which is truth, and which fiction? The line blurs with guys like this. Can't wait for Pat's tax evasion, embezzlement and fraud trials of 2010.

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Um.....
Posted by: sakul72 on May 10, 2007 11:46 AM   
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The newscaster says that the Women on Waves ship will make Mifepristone (aka RU 486) available to women off-shore of countries that do not currently allow women to make decisions for themselves.

...

You mean 'women that can't take responsibility for their actions' or 'don't want to get fat'. I am all for abortion for rape, incest, the health of the mother/child. But that is it. If you are willing to spread em, then you should be willing to deal with it, without killing a life.

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