Saturday, August 27, 2005

Billmon looks for the why of Pat Robertson

We all know what everybodys favorite God-stapo leader said the other day about the democratically elected president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. Now Billmon has a post over at the Whiskey Bar that tries to winkle out Pats real reason for what he said.
Personally, I've known Pat was either a demented psychopath or a world-class con artist ever since he first emerged on the national scene back in the early 1980s. I remember seeing some old footage of Robertson hopping down the aisle of his "church" on one foot in some kind of a faith-healing trace, and thinking to myself: Nobody does something like that unless they're authentically ripped on the Holy Spirit, or they expect to make some nice coin out of it.

I always assumed it was the latter (a business associate who traveled with Robertson claims he never saw him reading the Bible -- just Investor's Business Daily and the Wall Street Journal.) But then I happened to catch Robertson on the tube giving a speech during the 1988 Republican convention, and I realized he was both a con man and a nut case -- with no clear dividing line between them.

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