Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is to blame for Katrina and 9/11

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http://datelinehollywood.com/archives/2005/09/05/robertson-blames-hurricane-on-choice-of-ellen-deneres-to-host-emmys/

Bizarre, to say the least.
And not proven; I can't find any correlation between Stephen Fry hosting the BAFTAs and acts of God in the UK...
Matthew

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[nq:1]http://datelinehollywood.com/archives/2005/09/05/robertson-blames-hurricane-on -choice-of-ellen-deneres-to-host-emmys/ Bizarre, to say the least. And not proven; I can't find any correlation between Stephen Fry hosting the BAFTAs and acts of *** in the UK...[/nq]
And this guy ran for president of the USA? And was taken seriously by thousands of apparently normal people? I seriously don't know whether to laugh or cry.
I'm sorry if this offends anyone's beliefs, but this is such a perversion of the Christian principles of forgiveness and loving one's neighbour that *my* Jesus would get angry and cast bigoted, superstitious, dangerous charlatans like Robertson out of the temple in a heartbeat.

"A talent for drama is not a talent for writing,
but is an ability to articulate human relationships." Gore Vidal

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Wow. I disagree 100% with the views Robertson has expressed in the link Matthew posted. His claims in that article are ridiculous and an embarassment to those who call themselves Christians. He's probably also an embarassment to men, Caucasians and Americans.

That raises an interesting question. If you're a guy, whose views do you think are an embarassment to guys? Same question for women.

Lois

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[nq:1]Wow. I disagree 100% with the views Robertson has expressed in the link Matthew posted. His claims in that article are ridiculous and an embarassment to those who call themselves Christians. He's probably also an embarassment to men, Caucasians and Americans.[/nq]
Actually, I think it's a joke.
But it's *so* convincing.
[nq:1]That raises an interesting question. If you're a guy, whose views do you think are an embarassment to guys? Same question for women.[/nq]
"A talent for drama is not a talent for writing,
but is an ability to articulate human relationships." Gore Vidal

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Made you look, made you stare..
You probably have to live in the US to get a lot of what that website is about; I'm still trying to work out the relevance of the Tom Cruise photo on the home page. I can get the anti-depressant reference but what's with the connection to 'Revolver'? I've not read anything about the film but the trailer ad on the TV makes it look very hackneyed and stylistically pretentious.
Matthew

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[nq:1]Wow. I disagree 100% with the views Robertson has expressed in the link Matthew posted. His claims in that article are ridiculous and an embarassment to those who call themselves Christians. He's probably also an embarassment to men, Caucasians and Americans.[/nq]
My friends call him and like him "CINO's" - Christiand In Name Only. I call him a sociopath.
[nq:1]That raises an interesting question. If you're a guy, whose views do you think are an embarassment to guys? Same question for women.[/nq]
Erm... Ted Nugent, Chuck Heston, Don Rumsfeld, Shaun Combs (whatever he's called now), Donald Trump, Adam Carolla, R.Lee Ermey... and many others along those lines make me wonder, and be glad I'm from Earth, not Mars.

But Robertson and Falwell and Dobson... they make me ashamed to admit we're the same species.
cd

The difference between immorality and immortality is "T". I like Earl Grey.

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[nq:1]Actually, I think it's a joke. But it's *so* convincing.[/nq]
****. From Dateline Hollywood's "About Us" page:
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About Dateline Hollywood
Dateline Hollywood was founded in 360 BC as "Gladiators Weekly" to cover the booming entertainment industry in the coliseums of ancient Rome. Its pioneering analysis of the statistics of lion mauls and emperor thumbs up/down made it the original publication to take the business of entertainment seriously. Its premiere edition included "The Ten Gladiators to Watch" and an analytic feature, "Deaths by Daggers Down LXVIII Percent."
Over the years, the publication now known as Dateline Hollywood covered a number of different amusing industries as the times changed, transforming from "Inside Slave Trade," to "Bubonic Plague Infestation Monthly" (later quarterly, yearly, and eventually publishing just once per century) to "What's Hot in Renaissance Art," "Miracle Play Today!" and, following a move to the young United States in the early 19th century, "Minstrel Show Monthly," "The Ragtime Gazette," and, following the editors' realization in 1973 that ragtime's time had passed, its current incarnation.

Today, Dateline Hollywood uses the reach, speed, and cheapness of the Internet to bring a worldwide audience the freshest news from the current capital of world culture: Hollywood, USA. Whether you're an industry professional or Hollywood outsider, you'll find everything you need to know about the world of film, TV, music, and more right here from the publication that continues to live up to its founding motto to "cover with unerring integrity that which matters least."
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Uh... Never mind.
What makes it convincing is that Pat Robertson has predicted hurricanes in the past because of gay parades in Orlando, and agreed with Jerry Falwell about attributing 9/11 to several things, including the ACLU. And he does have a history of making these kinds of statements:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat Robertson > under "Controversies."

Hurricanes seem to be a favorite subject of his as his prayers have also "steered them away" from his headquarters at least a couple times. Never mind that they devastated other areas of the country.

RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"

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[nq:1]What makes it convincing is that Pat Robertson has predicted hurricanes in the past because of gay parades in Orlando, ... them away" from his headquarters at least a couple times. Never mind that they devastated other areas of the country.[/nq]
The magical "thinking" of this stratum of fundamentalism is more or less medieval. I was recently in Arizona, and the nonsense you hear on radio and TV, up and down the dial, is simply jaw-dropping. And yet people seem to believe it in droves.

"A talent for drama is not a talent for writing,
but is an ability to articulate human relationships." Gore Vidal

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[nq:1]The magical "thinking" of this stratum of fundamentalism is more or less medieval. I was recently in Arizona, and the nonsense you hear on radio and TV, up and down the dial, is simply jaw-dropping. And yet people seem to believe it in droves.[/nq]
MC, you give me great pause...
I'll likely be spending a month or so in Arizona this winter. I know that Arizona is considered a Republican state and I've had mixed feelings about what sort of attitudes I'll have to contend with there.

Mind you, I certainly don't have anything against different attitudes from my own, it's just those creepy fundamentalist **** Holier-than-thou kind that I find super offensive.

I'll scour the radio stations while I'm there. I'm sure it'll be an eye-opener.
Doug
Just a virtual guy... in a virtual world

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