Pat Robertson Admits he Blew Election Prediction he Received from God

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

In January, televangelist Pat Robertson told 700 Club viewers that in his annual New Year’s “conversation” with God, the Almighty had revealed to him who the next president would be. Up through Election Day, Robertson harshly criticized President Obama and the Democratic Party while praising Mitt Romney. Then, Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network predicted a GOP sweep, leaving Robertson utterly confounded by Obama’s victory.

Today, responding to a question from a viewer who wondered why her business is struggling since she thought God told her it would be successful, Robertson admitted that he sometimes misses God’s message. “So many of us miss God, I won’t get into great detail about elections but I sure did miss it, I thought I heard from God, I thought I had heard clearly from God, what happened?” Robertson replied, “You ask God, how did I miss it? Well, we all do and I have a lot of practice.”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-admits-blew-election-prediction

[Blue Owl]

1. Turns out the WORD OF GOD was actually the TURD OF GOP, Karl Rove

n/t

[louslobbs]

7. Laughed out loud on that one.

Lou

[ProudProgressiveNow]

18. >

[Joe Bacon]

47. No, it was the word of AYN RAND

Because Ayn as in Mine Rand is Pat Robertson's REAL God. Pat loves to kneel down to his beloved Golden Elephant and kiss it's ass every chance he can!

[mzteaze]

58. ..

Maybe it was a case of bad lip reading.

[Mojo2]

2. Wacko

Robertson is a thief that has pillaged and stole from people that are desperate and lonely. This guy is no different than Jim Bakker. If there is a heaven, surely this man will not be included in that place.

[The Magistrate]

3. When You Mistake Voices In Your Head For An Omnipotent Lord Of the Universe, Sir, This Happens

"Garbage in, garbage out."

[davidpdx]

46. Ack you stole my line!

Well sort of. I was going to say he should stop listening to the voices in his head and take his medication.

All the good jokes were already done

[LiberalFighter]

4. He needs to stop masturbating so much.

The lack of blood in the brain can do that.

[Liberal Veteran]

5. Interesting. My Magic 8 Ball was right on target on the election.

All hail the Magic 8 Ball!

[louslobbs]

6. Oh brother! Those voices you hear in your head Pat, they're not god, it's you Pat telling

yourself what you believe your god would tell you. It's just you telling you, what you want to hear. You want to believe that you are hearing god, but you are only hearing your own self thoughts without speaking them and crediting them to god. Unless of course you are actually talking to god on the telephone or internet, then I would say that someone has been pulling your leg. Even your god would not have voted for Romney and Ryan. As a matter of fact, god told me when I spoke to her before the election, that she was voting for Obama/Biden and so were all her friends and family.
Lou

[treestar]

41. I think you have it!

[louslobbs]

62. Thank you, I believe I do....sorry for the late response, been working pretty much day and night on

a live to tape production for the Kennedy Center Honors....good to see you treestar.
Lou

[flakey_foont]

8. so Honey Boo-Boo endorsed Obama

Pat,

Who are you gonna believe? God or Honey Boo-Boo?

The God-Pat connection strikes out more than Reggie Jackson.

[Ataboy35]

9. Big Con man

People like him make me not want to go to church on Sundays. People like him make me give money directly to people on the streets than to the church. People like him give Christianity a bad name. People like him polarize this democracy. People like him are no different from the fanatics who preach hate in other religions. People like him contribute to economic, gender and racial inequality. People like him ultimately worship money and place its importance ahead of human well being. Pat Roberts you are a con man

[Filibuster Harry]

10. Well he either wasn't talking to God or God played a cruel joke on him? Of course with all the

crap the GOP says I would say it was a well deserved joke. See if they believe now that God taught them a lesson. I wonder why he didn't make up the Dick Morris excuse of I made it up?

[Cheap_Trick]

11. "Turns out it was just gas."

"No more Taco Bell right before bedtime."

[Arkana]

12. I hope that when Robertson dies and goes to Hell

that his own personal hell is a gay nightclub that never closes and is always packed to the gills.

[Sentath]

53. I was reading your headline, thinking no

But then I read the body and maybe that isn't so bad.

I was going to condemn him to the kiddy table for the first 10-12 thousand years.

[nruthie]

13. When God talks....

he seems to only talk to crazy people.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

15. god used to talk to dubya all the time,

I see what you mean!

[Sunlei]

14. God must have seen those tax returns.

[LiberalFighter]

60. Was god wondering where the 10% tithing went?

[humanistcafe]

16. Why would god waste his time ...

... conversing with a washed up old huckster like Pat Robertson. I'll bet God prefers someone more stimulating ... say Barack Obama. Now that's a helluva discussion.

[RogerM]

17. F**king moron

should be locked up and key thrown away

[brooklynite]

19. Actually, WHAT did Robertson misunderstand?

Did God tell him that a Mormon cultist was going to win, and was Pat okay with it? Or did Pat get the word that Santorum or one of the other Christian Right candidates was on their way to the White House, and he's been hiding his "misunderstanding" since June?

[libdem4life]

20. Their god has some specific reservations about rape, as well.

I've lived with the RWCF "oh well, no one is perfect" explanation for their "misinterpretations" of what god said. He's perfect, we just hear imperfectly...but only when we are proven to be wrong. The rest of the time we hear him correctly. Ho hum. Please, send your tithes to the address on your screen.

[yellowcanine]

21. Maybe he and Harold Camping could compare notes on GAWD speak.

[yellowcanine]

22. I wonder if GAWD told him to do business with Charles Taylor?

[WI_DEM]

23. God set Pat up again.

[DFW]

24. Actually, Pat, the explanation is really quite simple:

Rush Limbaugh is NOT God.

Mystery solved.

[RichGirl]

25. My God is Nate Silver....

Well...my God of elections, that is. He toldeth me that Obama would winneth the election and HE DID! Praise and glory to the God of Algorithms!

[sigmasix]

26. Pat's god: horns and a pitchfork

Mr. holy pants has been listening to his god (the one with the biggest lies and hottest fire) for years. Too bad he won't listen to the God described in the new testament. His fans are soul-less hate-mongers and racists, so I'm sure they are pleased with Robertson's newest attrocious behavior and ill-disguised hatred for America.

[louis-t]

27. I love it when God messes with Pat.

[dbackjon]

28. Those voices in your head are not from God

[Cognitive_Resonance]

29. The Bible is crystal clear regarding what is to be done with false prophets. nt

[boingboinh]

30. Oh Science and your Fact-Based Bias

[Douglas Carpenter]

31. perhaps God was just pulling his leg

[CthulhusEvilCousin]

32. False Prophecy

Deu 18:20-22 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die. (21) And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? (22) When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

[sarcasmo]

33. I admit, the idiot known as Pat Robertson needs to be banned from TV.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

34. False prophet

[Coyotl]

35. knr

What can I add. I figured out something was amiss with the god story soon after Santa Claus.

Don't ask me why Santa came first cuz I was getting gifts from him at least

[SouthernDonkey]

36. And I'm sure in the end...

Pat convinced her that she just had not seeded her faith enough for God to smile down on her, but if she could just send a new "seed" of a couple thou, he'd get God right back on it....

Charlatans and thieves!

[SariesNightly]

37. Slap his face

I want to slap this guy so hard, with a glove with a brick in it

[madinmaryland]

38. OH SHIT!! I thought it said that "Pat Robertson blew an erection.."

[sakabatou]

50. ...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

39. God punk'd Pat, but good.

"Yeah, I told that old grifter that Romney would win 'cause I knew I'd laugh My celestial ass off when Obama won and Pat pissed himself. I'll send Pat to Hell later, but not yet - he's way too much fun to watch."

[font size=40]Bwahahahahaha![/font]

[LiberalElite]

40. So can Robertson just go to hell now or do the rest of us have to suffer more? nt

[RBInMaine]

42. God must have endorsed Obama. bwahahahahahaaaa...

[Zoeisright]

43. What a complete fool.

The voices in your head don't know anything, Patty.

[Kennah]

44. Sounds like he's worshiping false Gods

[cantbeserious]

45. Sounds Like A Schizophrenic Patient In Denial - Mirrors The GOP In Many Ways

eom

[lunatica]

48. That God is such a practical jokester!

Pat Robertson has been pwwnd!

[sakabatou]

49. God's trolling Pat

[wake.up.america]

51. What garbage. This BS is insane and so is Pat. Stills hauls in the offerings big time.

[politicaljunkie41910]

61. Shame on those still listening.

[NickP]

52. Well...

I think we all know how idiotic Robertson is, so this is really no surprise. Just like all those whack-jobs that claim the world is going to end when God spoke to them as well.

[Cha]

54. Isn't that Devil's Broadcast Network? nm

[jeanlibny594283]

55. crazy nut

he really needs to go away.

[Hekate]

56. God was just messing with your mind, Pat

It's probably over -- have you checked to see if you've been unfriended yet?

Hekate

[losangeleslibker]

57. I'm glad to be nonreligious

I don't think necessarily that extreme Christians are stupid but just ignorant and gullible. My dad is republican but we agree on one thing, why do people take a fictional book so seriously? They were meant to just be stories to be read for enjoyment. If you think about it, all religions don't make sense and have crazy stories. They all just have metaphors not to be taken literally. I'm not trashing religion. I don't have a problem with religious people just as long as they don't force their beliefs on me. A good friend of mine is a baptist but we respect each other and don't question either.

[Hekate]

59. There's a lot of good in the Good Book, but the teaching stories are metaphorical, not literal

As a child I used to tag along with whichever neighbors wanted to let me go to church with them, so I was religious for a long, long time. However, one thing my nonreligious mom got through to me is that stories like Genesis were (a) the best understanding of a tribal people at the time, and (b) metaphorical, as in, "A billion years could be a single day to God." The Bible was NOT to be taken literally. As an adult I met a wonderful and wonderfully literate Lutheran pastor who explained Revelations as a literary genre popular at the time around the Mediterranean world. Just let that last sentence sink in for a minute.

My spiritual life has been a journey, and though I no longer identify myself as a Christian, it took me many years to say so. I became more or less a polytheist on the Goddess path. It took me even longer to articulate that people like the appalling Pat Robertson and the late Jerry Falwell worship a god, all right, but no matter how many times they say "Jesus" and "God", the being they really worship is hateful and nasty, and is certainly not my god. In order to continue respecting Christianity (which I do -- Jesus was quite a teacher, a Bodhisattva, even) I had to use my polytheism to separate people like those two from what used to be mainstream Christianity....

Thanks for dropping by to comment on my post. Welcome to DU.

Hekate