Plan B Forum

liberty wrote:We financially help there entities:

The church, tithing, the Special Olympics and St. Jude Children’s Hospital.

Now we have decided the add another Pat Roberson’s 700 Club. They do a lot of good works around the word from the Ukraine to India from individual facial surgeries to community water wells. I think it is money well used.

dgs49 wrote:Do you have any idea what percentage of their donation revenue goes to actual charitable work?

dales wrote:The Salvation Army gets my money.

Sue U wrote:

liberty wrote:We financially help there entities:

The church, tithing, the Special Olympics and St. Jude Children’s Hospital.

Now we have decided the add another Pat Roberson’s 700 Club. They do a lot of good works around the word from the Ukraine to India from individual facial surgeries to community water wells. I think it is money well used.

What good works does "Pat Robertson's 700 Club" actually do? As far as I can tell, it's a TV show. Why is it "money well used?"

liberty wrote:

Sue U wrote:

liberty wrote:We financially help there entities:

The church, tithing, the Special Olympics and St. Jude Children’s Hospital.

Now we have decided the add another Pat Roberson’s 700 Club. They do a lot of good works around the word from the Ukraine to India from individual facial surgeries to community water wells. I think it is money well used.

What good works does "Pat Robertson's 700 Club" actually do? As far as I can tell, it's a TV show. Why is it "money well used?"

Unless they are blatantly lying, and since they are conservatives I doubt it, I have seen on their program where their Operation Blessing has done heart and hair lip surgeries in China and Indian. They have provided high efficiency wood stoves for gypsy in the Ukraine. But most impressive things I have seen them do is to drill community water wells in third world. Most of us in the West just don’t understand how big a deal a supply of safe and convenient water is.

Pat Robertson is a Charlatan

Less than two weeks after Hurricane Katrina killed 1,836 people, Robertson implied on the September 12th broadcast of The 700 Club that the storm was God's punishment in response to America's abortion policy. He suggested that September 11 and the disaster in New Orleans "could... be connected in some way"

First child conceived out of wedlock

During Robertson's unsuccessful presidential bid in 1987 it was publicly revealed that his first son was conceived out of wedlock, and that Robertson had lied about the date of his marriage in an attempt to cover the truth up. While conceding the reports were accurate, Robertson denounced the media choosing to report on the issue as "outrageous" and "reprehensible."[4]

Criticism of Robertson's faith healing

In the 1970s and 1980s Robertson was a faith healer. James Randi devoted a chapter of his book The Faith Healers, criticising Robertson faith healing.[1] Randi commented that "in 1986, soon after the full importance of the AIDS epidemic began to become evident, Robertson was attempting to cure it" by proclaiming people cured after prayer.[1] Randi commented, "Gerry Straub, a former associate of Pat Robertson and his television producer, pointed out in his book Salvation for Sale the astonishing fact that God seemed to time miracles to conform with standard television format," and "God would stop speaking to Pat and stop healing exactly in time with the theme music."[1] Randi explained that "in 1979, it appeared to Robertson's staff that their boss had been taking lessons from Oral Roberts" and "proposed to film the Second Coming!".[1] The project was eventually publicly dropped, but "budget allocations [CBN] are made for their development."[1] Martin Gardner also criticized Robertson's faith healing in Gardner's work Beyond Reason.

Comments on Scotland

In 1999 Robertson said Scotland was "a dark land" overrun by homosexuals. In response the Bank of Scotland dropped their plans for a business operation with Robertson, following customer complaints.[28]

Financial ties to African leaders

Robertson repeatedly supported former President of Liberia Charles Taylor in various episodes of his The 700 Club program during the United States' involvement in the Second Liberian Civil War in June and July 2003. Robertson accuses the U.S. State Department of giving President Bush bad advice in supporting Taylor's ouster as president, and of trying "as hard as they can to destabilize Liberia."[33]

Robertson was criticized for failing to mention in his broadcasts his $8,000,000 (USD) investment in a Liberian gold mine.[34] Taylor had been indicted by the United Nations for war crimes at the time of Robertson's support.

Prosecutors also said that Taylor had harbored members of Al Qaeda responsible for the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. According to Robertson, the Liberian gold mine Freedom Gold was intended to help pay for humanitarian and evangelical efforts in Liberia, when in fact the company was allowed to fail leaving many debts both in Liberia and in the international mining service sector.[citation needed] Regarding this controversy, Richard Land, head of the Southern Baptist Convention's public policy said, "I would say that Pat Robertson is way out on his own, in a leaking life raft, on this one."[35]

Robertson has also been accused of using his tax-exempt, nonprofit organization, Operation Blessing, as a front for his own financial gain, and then using his influence in the Republican Party to cover his tracks. After making emotional pleas in 1994 on The 700 Club for cash donations to Operation Blessing to support airlifts of refugees from Rwanda to Zaire, it was later discovered, by a reporter from The Virginian-Pilot, that Operation Blessing's planes were transporting diamond-mining equipment for the Robertson-owned African Development Corporation, a venture Robertson had established in cooperation with Zaire's dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, whom Robertson had befriended earlier in 1993. According to Operation Blessing documents, Robertson personally owned the planes used for Operation Blessing airlifts.

In 1993, Mobutu was denied a visa by the U.S. State Department after he sought to visit Washington, D.C. Shortly after this, Robertson tried to get the State Department to lift its ban on the African leader.

United States presidential election, 2012

On televangelist Benny Hinn's "This Is Your Day" program (as aired October 31, 2012 on the TBN network), Hinn conducted a 30-minute interview with fellow televangelist Pat Robertson. At the 10:47 mark, the following exchange takes place:

Pat Robertson: "He's gonna win. Romney will win the election."
Benny Hinn: "What makes you believe that?"
Pat Robertson: "Because The Lord told me."

In 1999 Robertson said Scotland was "a dark land" overrun by homosexuals. In response the Bank of Scotland dropped their plans for a business operation with Robertson, following customer complaints.[28]

dales wrote:
In 1999 Robertson said Scotland was "a dark land" overrun by homosexuals. In response the Bank of Scotland dropped their plans pants for a business operation with Robertson, following customer complaints.[28]

dgs49 wrote:I really don't know much about Robertson or his organization, but I do know that the MSM makes sport of excoriating anyone who manifests a belief in the truth of the Bible, and Robertson plays right into this incessant campaign.

Anytime I see a long, detailed, defamatory description that contains a few words in quotation marks I pretty much assume that the writer is making a major misrepresentation, otherwise the quote would have been in context.

For example: In 1999 Robertson said Scotland was "a dark land" overrun by homosexuals...

What conceivable legitimate reason would there be to quote only those three words as part of a significant defamatory assertion about Robertson? There is only one that I can think of: to quote him more fully would not serve the writer's defamatory purpose.

Most reporting about Robertson's statements is much the same. And given the fact that he is constantly on air, speaking extemporaneously about an infinite number of subjects...