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Jabu Khan · 10-11-2004, 12:26 PM

I miss the "God Stuff" segments on the Daily Show before John Stewart got the gig even though I think the show is much better now. Anyone else ever seen those live video feed interviews with Pat Robertson? I think Free Speech TV used to show them. He would be on talk shows responding to callers and they showed what he was saying during commercial breaks and while off camera not realizing it was still being transmitted.

Crucifiction · 10-11-2004, 03:29 PM

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/re...pat-robertson/

A great page discussing the more scandalous events in Pat Robertson's life.

I absolutely love it that Patty Boy claims to heal people everyday on his show; and yet not ONE of the people that have been "healed" have come forward to allow science to examine them.

Quote:

Robertson purchased rights from Mobutu to dredge for diamonds in a remote portion of the Zaire river near Tshikapa. Diamond mining is an expensive proposition. It requires a constant influx of miners and equipment parts. In order to keep his operation supplied with manpower and gear, personnel and materiel had to be flown in from other places. That can get expensive.

In a cost-cutting move, Pat ferried his cargo aboard planes owned by Operation Blessing, a tax-exempt charity of Robertson's working to deliver medical supplies. In fact, according to two pilots who worked for Robertson, nearly all of the flights they made on the Operation Blessing planes were delivery trips to and from the mining site. Later, one of them told a reporter:

"My first impression when I took the job was that we'd be called Operation Blessing and we'd be doing humanitarian work. We got over there and 'Operation Blessing' was painted on the tails of the airplanes, but we were doing no humanitarian relief at all. We were just supplying the miners and flying the dredges from Kinshasa out to Tshikapa."

Swell guy.

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Jabu Khan Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: the impenetrable fortress of the bubbleheads Posts: 1,308	I miss the "God Stuff" segments on the Daily Show before John Stewart got the gig even though I think the show is much better now. Anyone else ever seen those live video feed interviews with Pat Robertson? I think Free Speech TV used to show them. He would be on talk shows responding to callers and they showed what he was saying during commercial breaks and while off camera not realizing it was still being transmitted.

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