Pat Robertson goes back to slamming Jews...

[Archae]

In Pat Robertson's book about the "New World Order," Robertson claims a "Jewish conspiracy" was behind all sorts of bad things, including the assassination of Abe Lincoln.

Well, he's still at it...

Pat Robertson Says Jews Are Too Busy Polishing Diamonds To Fix Their Cars

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Monday, 3/31/2014 12:50 pm

Conservative activist Daniel Lapin, the Religious Right’s favorite rabbi who was also tied to the Jack Abramoff corruption scandal, appeared today on the 700 Club to tell host Pat Robertson about his new book on the “ancient Jewish wisdom” of “making money.”

Robertson introduced Lapin by asking: “What is it about Jewish people that make them prosper financially? You almost never find Jews tinkering with their cars on the weekends or mowing their lawns. That’s what Daniel Lapin says and there’s a very good reason for that, and it lies within the business secrets of the Bible.”

Later in the interview, Robertson said that Jews are “polishing diamonds, not fixing cars.”

“When you correctly said in Jewish neighborhoods you do not find Jews lying under their cars on Sunday afternoons, no, I pay one of the best mechanics around to take care of my BMW, I’d be crazy to take my time doing it myself,” Lapin said. “Or for me to mow my lawn, I’m the worse lawnmower in the world, but the young man who lives down the street from me, he’s one of the best and he’s happy to do it and I’m happy.”

He added that paying for such services is all about “taking care of God’s other children.”

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pat-robertson-says-jews-are-too-busy-polishing-diamonds-fix-their-cars#sthash.1BRp3NBy.dpuf

[immoderate]

1. Doesn't everybody with a BMW fix it themselves?

How could I have been so disillusioned?

--imm

[MosheFeingold]

8. I am not offended

Pat IS an idiot and so is anyone who buys this guy's book, but nothing I read was anti-Semitic.

There are real anti-Semites in this world. Save your powder for ones that try to kill us.

[Mosby]

11. positive stereotypes depersonalize people

[MosheFeingold]

12. You have to pick your fights in this world.

Pat is an idiot. His guest shilling as stupid book is a borderline crook. Any customers are idiots.

I don't disagree with you that any stereotypes depersonalize people. Sure.

But on a scale of "1 being harmless crank" and "10 being Haman, Stalin, or Adolf Hitler," Pat is a 1.

I am too old to care what idiots think or say.

Just ignore them and they go away. They want the publicity.

[LeftishBrit]

13. Unfortunately he's an idiot with influence

His propaganda may well have got and kept Bush in power, for example.

And anti-Semitic and other racist hate-speech does have an influence on people. Unfortunately.

[Behind the Aegis]

16. Disagree with your placement of Pat on the scale.

Mosby and LeftishBrit have already made some very good points, so I won't repeat them. However, while I like your scale, Pat Robertson is hardly a "harmless crank." The "whack-a-mole" type trolls MIRT handles on a daily basis would fall under #1. Pat would fall at a 5 or 6. He is quite influential, including having leaders in his employ, of sorts.

He is not the type of person, if ignored, goes away. To do so, is how history repeats itself.

[cali]

15. nope. my ex has a jag now and he works on it himself. He bought it used

for an unbelievably great price. it's in mint condition. beautiful car and he loves to do that stuff. He had a BMW that he worked on himself a few years ago.

[Loudly]

2. I'm not sure that's exactly slamming since no offense is taken.

"I have people for that" is a sensible approach to the highest and best use of one's own time.

In any event, old Pat got rich through charlatanism.

[Scootaloo]

3. Hedging that defense of Robertson, I see.

[Behind the Aegis]

4. Some things never change.

Robertson scored a homerun by finding a Jew who would "substantiate" his remarks. I will have to inform my father and youngest brother that their days of slaving under the car and mowing the grass are OVER! There is a good reason this Jew doesn't work on his car; I don't know shit about cars. As for not mowing the grass, Pat should blame G-d, because He made me chocked full of allergies, including 25 types of grass.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

5. If the Christians on Mr. Robertson's staff and in his audience had a more Godly love for him

they would convince him to retire.

[DirkGently]

6. Wow. Pigeonholing Jewish people AND insulting working folks.

... all in one swipe. That's got to be some kind of Crazy Bigot TV Preacher homerun right there. I'm guessing he has some other ethnic or religious group in mind for who is inherently more suited to auto repair and lawn maintenance.

Angry white Protestant lunatics, of course, belong on television, getting gullible older people to send them money through spite and fear.

Just as God intended.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. DEMAGOGUE: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be IDIOTS. Mencken

[Bluenorthwest]

9. Pat's the diamond polisher, his very nasty relationship with diamonds in Africa is

well known....from The Nation:
"Robertson used to mix his missionary work in Africa with efforts at developing mineral wealth. First he financed a diamond-mining venture in Zaire, and then he pushed for a gold mine in Liberia through a Cayman Islands company he owned called "Freedom Gold." That's when President Charles Taylor gave Robertson's company a gold-mining concession."
http://www.thenation.com/article/153980/televangelist-and-warlord
Lots more at the link

[darkangel218]

10. I cant believe anybody woulf listen to that nut job.

Of them all fundies, he's the nuttiest one imo.

[DinahMoeHum]

14. Hey, Pat, Fred Phelps is calling you, saving you a place. . .

. . .in hell.
Right alongside Jerry Falwell.

[sakabatou]

17. Not surprised

[Capt. Obvious]

19. Do you have any pets

For a down payment I will feed and take care of your pets when they are left behind.

[misterhighwasted]

20. hahaa. The Lunatic is On The Wall. Get Lost

Looooooonies 4 the jeeeezus

[Skidmore]

21. Pat, is that you?

And are the punctuation keys on your keyboard broken?

[ChisolmTrailDem]

22. God damn it!!!! I always seem to miss the live ones!!!

[Ilsa]

24. Hidden & auto-removed.

I hate that I missed it. I hope the IP address is banned.

[Skidmore]

26. Twas so brief. Gone in the blink of an eye.

Absolutely bonkers.

[malaise]

27. And I missed it

Ahhhhhhhhh!

[Skittles]

29. I do too

it upsets me greatly

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. Hmm, where did I leave my copy

cough, argh... cough, it is dusty.



Did our distinguished fellow come across one of these? It sure does sound like it.

Hmm... and that Rabbi can go to well, we have a name for those, and it is not one to be repeated in polite company.

[piratefish08]

25. shit. I'm always too late for the crazies.

damn.

[Tom Ripley]

28. As Lois said to her husband, "Peter, they built the pyramids!"

[Behind the Aegis]

30. Apparently, "positive" stereotypes are not bad, or "as bad."

See, this is just about Jews, so, it doesn't really matter to some because, well, Israel. It is best to ignore such anti-Semitism. I suggest people watch "The History of the Jews" on PBS. These type of anti-Semitic tropes bore their way deep into the psyche of people who claim to be progressive and liberal. Apparently in China, there is some similar sentiments about Jews being money-makers: http://www.democraticunderground.com/101689537 .