calling a spade a shovel

[rone]

Jym Dyer at meme_machine_go suggests that we call Pat Robertson's actions by their proper name: he has issued a fatwah.

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[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Both Robertson and Pat Buchanan got prime-time slots at the 1992 Republican Convention. They made speeches that scared the crap out of most people, and it was widely agreed to be a terrible tactical error. But I'm not so sure it was; the Republicans lost that election but it may have worked as signaling to the lunatics in the party base that their interests were being kept at heart. Buchanan gets a lot of mileage out of being contrarian, especially when there's a war on, but he always comes back and endorses the Republican presidential candidate in the end.

Same for Robertson; actually, for him it was particularly weird—he'd gone as far as implying that Bush the Elder was part of the Bilderberger/Illuminati/Beast 666/European Community/Elders of ZionInternational Bankers' conspiracy to conquer the world, then turned around and endorsed him. A lovelier example of Crazy People Doublethink you will never find.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Did he come back to endorse the GOP in 2000? I mean, seein' as how he was running on the Reform ticket...