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Space Bar
Joined: 20 Oct 2010
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 Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:41 am Post subject: Gays punished by blizzard |
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So the Almighty approves of gays who use public transportation? Anyway, I especially liked this part:
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| As for the millions of straight people in New York City who were also grounded by the bad weather, the televangelist said, �I think God probably wonders, if these people are really straight, then what are they doing in New York?� |
Pat Robertson: Snow Is God�s Way of Punishing Americans Who Were Planning to Drive to Do Something Gay
Treacherous Roads Part of Almighty�s Strategy, Says Televangelist
VIRGINIA BEACH (The Borowitz Report) � Rev. Pat Robertson sparked controversy in today�s broadcast of his 700 Club program when he claimed that God created the blizzard currently battering the Northeast �to punish Americans who were planning to drive to do something gay.�
Explaining his theory, Rev. Robertson said, �Because of the bad road conditions the Almighty has made, any gay activities that people were planning on doing will have to be postponed by a day or two.�
Additionally, he argued, God shut down major airports in the New York area �so that people who were hoping to fly to do something of a gay nature would have to take a train or a bus, so it might be days before the gay thing they were going to do could occur.�
As for the millions of straight people in New York City who were also grounded by the bad weather, the televangelist said, �I think God probably wonders, if these people are really straight, then what are they doing in New York?�
In other blizzard-related news, the National Weather Service offered this update: �It�s as white as a Glenn Beck rally out there.� |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:50 am Post subject: |
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| The Nat'l Weather Service person responsible for that witticism will probably get at least reprimanded (although I thought it was funny), but Pat unfortunately can continue to plow ahead with his BS. |
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Space Bar
Joined: 20 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 7:34 am Post subject: |
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My hunch has always been that it was women who drove men to be gay.
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On the other hand
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Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 7:45 am Post subject: |
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I think the website is satirical.
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Borowitz Report is a news website created by Andy Borowitz in 2001.
Some of us might have known about the website, some might wonder what kind of news he wrote in there.
It is basically a news site where he write fake news every now and then.
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Pat Robertson says a lot of goofy stuff, but the wording of those quotes struck me as a little off. And the only articles I've been able to find about it are either Borowitz, or links to Borowitz.
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Space Bar
Joined: 20 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 8:22 am Post subject: |
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I think the website is satirical.
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Borowitz Report is a news website created by Andy Borowitz in 2001.
Some of us might have known about the website, some might wonder what kind of news he wrote in there.
It is basically a news site where he write fake news every now and then.
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Pat Robertson says a lot of goofy stuff, but the wording of those quotes struck me as a little off. And the only articles I've been able to find about it are either Borowitz, or links to Borowitz.
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You gotta admit though that when people can believe such far-out things about you, you must be pretty whack. |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 2:02 pm Post subject: |
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When the people of Dover, Pennsylvania voted out their 8 Creationist school board members, Pat Robertson expected a disaster to strike the town.
But that never happened. |
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akcrono
Joined: 11 Mar 2010
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Sadly, its not about the quality of what he says, its about shock value that gets him notoriety. Everyone should just do the same thing they do with idiots in real life and ignore them. We only know about him because people DON'T ignore him. |
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UknowsI
Joined: 16 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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From the title I thought the thread would be about Blizzard Entertainment discriminating against gay people, which would have been surprising. The real content was however nothing noteworthy  |
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Space Bar
Joined: 20 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:35 am Post subject: |
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| UknowsI wrote: |
| From the title I thought the thread would be about Blizzard Entertainment discriminating against gay people, which would have been surprising. |
How could you possibly have thought that? "blizzard" would have had to have been capitalized. |
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Kuros
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alljokingaside
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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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| umm, under his logic, wouldn't the blizzard encourage men, who were already predisposed, to "do something 'gay'" since they're trapped at home with little form of distraction (you can only watch ...um oprah? so many times [i haven't watched tv in a while]) and little to do but *beep* like gay bunny rabbits? |
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Space Bar
Joined: 20 Oct 2010
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Wow! Almost makes you wish you could vote for the guy now. |
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travel zen
Joined: 22 Feb 2005
Location: Good old Toronto, Canada
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| Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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What's up with America ?
Why can anyone just get on the air and say anything they want ? Without any consequence ? That's not Democracy, thats plain Idiocy.
Long Live Stalin |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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| travel zen wrote: |
Why can anyone just get on the air and say anything they want ? Without any consequence ? |
Okay, so what do you think the legal consequences of saying something distasteful "on the air" should be? |
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stilicho25
Joined: 05 Apr 2010
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| Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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| by saying long live stalin didn't you just break your own rule? |
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