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2003-10-10 11:25 | User Profile
US State Department protests televangelist's nuclear threat
WASHINGTON (AFP) Oct 09, 2003 The US State Department has lodged a vehement complaint with prominent conservative televangelist Pat Robertson for comments suggesting that its Foggy Bottom headquarters should be destroyed with nuclear weapons, officials said Thursday.
Spokesman Richard Boucher called the remarks -- which Robertson made last week on his nationally televised "700 Club" program -- "despicable" and a senior department official said a protest had been made "at the highest level."
"I lack sufficient capabilities to express my disdain," Boucher told reporters when asked about Robertson's comments. "I think the very idea, though, is despicable."
The senior official said Robertson had been made aware of Secretary of State Colin Powell's extreme outrage at the tone and content of the remarks.
"That's not the way one expresses an opinion in Washington," the official said, adding that Robertson's conduct had been "outrageous."
Robertson, who has been a frequent critic of the State Department, made the offending comments during an interview with a like-minded critic of US diplomacy, columnist Joel Mowbray, who has written a book entitled "Dangerous Diplomacy: How the State Department Threatens American Security."
"I read your book," Robertson said, according to a transcript of the interview posted on his Christian Broadcasting Network's website ([url]www.cbn.com[/url]).
"When you get through, you say, 'If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom, I think that's the answer'," he said.
"I mean, you get through this, and you say, 'We've got to blow that thing up.' I mean, is it as bad as you say?" Robertson asked.
Mowbray responded: "It is."
Mowbray's book accuses the State Department of endangering the security of the United States by allegedly cavorting with sponsors of terrorism, negligence or incompetence in the visa issuance process and ignoring the travails of US citizens abroad.
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====================================================== If Robinson can say things like that I can express the view that the next big private meeting of the C.F.R., similar to the one put on by the Bilderbergers here in Georgia some years back, that it would please me to no end if they were to get the hell blown out of them.
Robinson and Mowbray are both a couple of kiss asses.
2003-10-10 12:16 | User Profile
Of course, it isn't really news when this juu ass-suckin' Bahble Banger makes a fool of himself - that's an everyday event. It's only newsworthy on those once-in-a-decade occasions when he doesn't.
I had the misfortune of catching a few minutes of his sh-t show yesterday: one of his simpering female "reporters" presenting a French Christian couple who adopted a little riceball with a harelip. Oh, how wonderful they were for spreading the love of Jeesus to the precious unsaved billions of Asia. I'm sure there are no poor White orphans out there who could use a loving family....
2003-10-10 15:04 | User Profile
Robertson is a pious, unscrupulous fraud. It's amazing how television, the one-eyed Jew, has beguiled the lemmings over the past fifty years with the downright deception that the archenemies of traditional Christianity are instead ministers of the gospel.
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2003-10-10 18:31 | User Profile
Z,
I guess they really raked Robertson over the coals for that book about the N.W.O. He's well house broken.
One of the funnier things that I have seen about this fakir was the time Alan Colmes grinned at him and asked him about his nutty dispensationalism and Jews. Robertson got this silly look on his face and denied to Colmes that that is exactly what is was about. The liar did one hell of a tap dance around that one.
2003-10-10 23:18 | User Profile
Mowbray's book accuses the State Department of endangering the security of the United States by allegedly cavorting with sponsors of terrorism, negligence or incompetence in the visa issuance process and ignoring the travails of US citizens abroad.
====================================================== If Robinson can say things like that I can express the view that the next big private meeting of the C.F.R., similar to the one put on by the Bilderbergers here in Georgia some years back, that it would please me to no end if they were to get the hell blown out of them.
Robinson and Mowbray are both a couple of kiss asses.[/QUOTE]
Actually I'm surprised he didn't specifically mention Izzreal by name, or the State Department's alleged softness toward Arafat. Is Pat going soft on us?
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This is when I expect Pat will really make a fool out of himself.
2003-10-10 23:35 | User Profile
okiereddust:
Actually I'm surprised he didn't specifically mention Izzreal by name, or the State Department's alleged softness toward Arafat. Is Pat going soft on us?
Unfortunately, he didn't, though you can bet your bottom shekel that Pat's fumed up over the Middle East "road map."
Wonder what the Zionuts will do if and when the Palis get their own state someday....a few of their fringe fellows will probably conduct some random act of violence in protest and then their apologists on NewsMax, WND and syndicated talk radio will wail "persecution" when the public gets angry at dispensationalist kooks.
2003-10-10 23:39 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Okiereddust]Actually I'm surprised he didn't specifically mention Izzreal by name, or the State Department's alleged softness toward Arafat. Is Pat going soft on us? [/QUOTE]
Probally not. Pat always has Hal Lindsay to do that for him.
2003-10-12 00:58 | User Profile
From Foxnews:> "I read your book," Robertson told Mowbray. "When you get through, you say, 'If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom (search) [State Department headquarters], I think that's the answer' and you say, 'We've got to blow that thing up.' I mean, is it as bad as you say?"
Pat Robertson is getting a raw deal. His comments were not in the least bit a threat nor a wish that harm come to anyone, but merely an exclamation of how bad Mowbray's book makes the State Department look.
The misrepresentation of Robertson's remarkes remind me of people who spend their time looking for the smallest offense so that they can make a mountain of objection.
It's in even more in poor taste when this "smallest offense" is not in something carefully reviewed, like a book, but is essentually in casual conversation where it's easy to poorly word something or not have any time to reflect on how the comment by be understood.
This post also applies to Rush Limbauh's remarks about an over-rated black quarterback.
2003-10-12 07:20 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Happy Hacker]From Foxnews:
Pat Robertson is getting a raw deal. His comments were not in the least bit a threat nor a wish that harm come to anyone, but merely an exclamation of how bad Mowbray's book makes the State Department look.
The misrepresentation of Robertson's remarkes remind me of people who spend their time looking for the smallest offense so that they can make a mountain of objection.
It's in even more in poor taste when this "smallest offense" is not in something carefully reviewed, like a book, but is essentually in casual conversation where it's easy to poorly word something or not have any time to reflect on how the comment by be understood.
This post also applies to Rush Limbauh's remarks about an over-rated black quarterback.[/QUOTE]
I agree with you on this one.
Patsy is a moron, though.
2003-10-12 11:21 | User Profile
[QUOTE]Pat Robertson is getting a raw deal. His comments were not in the least bit a threat nor a wish that harm come to anyone, but merely an exclamation of how bad Mowbray's book makes the State Department look.[/QUOTE]
Damn straight.
Remember whenever the media feeds the fire over non-stories like this [I]who it is they serve: ZOG.[/I]
Somebody somewhere goes postal and shoots people, count on the media to put on their gun-control rally caps. Somebody somewhere uses harsh anti-Fed rhetoric in the course of a conversation and the media ratchet up the Threat To The Nation.
Just the other day, a ten-year-old prankster called in a bomb threat to a high school and the safety-first authorities [I]charged a freakin ten-year-old with a felony[/I].[[url]http://www.currentargus.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=113&num=2163][/url]. Somebody threw themselves out of a tenth-floor library-window at a university and the answer is going to inevitably be "tackle anyone in the vicinity of the window and hold them for psychiatric observation before charging them with a crime". [[url]http://www.washingtonsquarenews.com/news/campus/5902.html][/url]
This is what ZOG loves: easily-alarmed and still-easier-manipulated cattle who will clamor to trade 200 years of freedoms for ten minutes of hand-holding by Uncle Shmuel. And all it takes is a flurry of news stories quoting panic-stricken idiots "just like me"!
Well, where are these alarmist stories when it comes to our slow devolution into a Negroid mediocracy? When the Carr brothers went on their whitey-killing rampage in Kansas, forget sidebar man-in-the-street followups, you couldn't find the main news item in your local paper! But every ni**er in your town got sought out for a reaction to the Jasper,TX dragging story....even if [I]your town [/I] was Missoula, MT, or Nome, AK. Illegal-immigration stories are restricted to comparing politicians' commitments to amnesty policies and we-are-a-nation-of-immigrants....nobody EVER interviews Joe Blow to ask him how safe he feels in a neighborhood turning browner by the day - shit, they won't even ask him how he feels about every recorded message he dials beginning with "To continue in English, press 1!"
Not that Joe Blow isn't catching on. Joe's starting to dope out the correct way to respond if he should ever [B]be [/B] asked these questions. Wave that diversity pennant, wave that ZOG flag....or be held over for psychiatric observation while they decide what they're going to end up charging you with.
2003-10-13 02:13 | User Profile
Il ragno, dude, you're peaching to the choir. Still, preach on!
Sertorius, and anyone else interested, [URL=http://www.townhall.com/columnists/joelmowbray/jm20031012.shtml]here[/URL] is a response by Mowbray, the man's book who triggered Robinson's remark.
But seen in context, Robertson's remark hardly should have caused a fuss... The real tragedy, though, is not that State explodes with rage whenever it is criticized-it's that State can't muster anywhere near as much emotion when it actually should.
2003-10-13 08:15 | User Profile
Happy,
Thanks for posting the column. I agree with you that the comment wasn't literal. What I found interesting was that (at least that I have seen) was that there wasn't the usual caterwaulling about this. In the past when people Robertson has made comments such as "America being a Christian nation" that the usual suspects make a big deal out of it for several days in the media. The fact that I haven't seen this reaction tells me that in this case Robertson's remarks are viewed with pleasure by the neo-cons and the likudniks. After all, they have been feuding with the State department since 9/11. I really don't think they have anything to fight over. Whereas the neo-cons are ready to start bombing right now, State would rather wait until tomorrow.
While I have alot of criticism for the State Dept, there is one thing they did (or didn't do) that we actually benefitted from.
Refugees attempting to flee Kim Jong-Il's "paradise" in North Korea must wish that State merely ignores them. Efforts by Congress or various parts of the administration to make it easier for North Koreans to escape and seek refuge in the United States have been beaten back by the State Department.
Neo-con Mowbray isn't happy about this, but I am. Why in the hell can't South Korea accept them!?
2003-10-13 16:39 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]Neo-con Mowbray isn't happy about this, but I am. Why in the hell can't South Korea accept them!?[/QUOTE]
Sometimes I don't know when someone is serious or just trying to make himself look more mainstream to add credibility to other remarks. I mean, why would Mowbray be bothered that there isn't a US boat lift of North Koreans to America?