perfidy

Quick: Is this Pat Robertson quotation parody or the real thing? It's so hard to tell these days.

“Pat Robertson on Sunday said that Hurricane Katrina was God’s way of expressing its anger at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for its selection of Ellen Degeneres to host this year’s Emmy Awards. “By choosing an avowed lesbian for this national event, these Hollywood elites have clearly invited God’s wrath,” Robertson said on “The 700 Club” on Sunday. “Is it any surprise that the Almighty chose to strike at Miss Degeneres’ hometown?”

Robertson also noted that the last time Degeneres hosted the Emmys, in 2001, the September 11 terrorism attacks took place shortly before the ceremony.

“This is the second time in a row that God has invoked a disaster shortly before lesbian Ellen Degeneres hosted the Emmy Awards,” Robertson explained to his approximately one million viewers. “America is waiting for her to apologize for the death and destruction that her sexual deviance has brought onto this great nation.”

If you said "parody"... you're right! For once, Robertson did not say this shockingly stupid thing. If you said "the real thing," well... there's always next time, and with Patty R, there will always be a next time.

I think Ellen Degeneres should change her name to Lesbian Ellen Degeneres.

[wik] But let's also not forget that Robertson is not only a funny clown capering for our enjoyment. Robertson's "charity," Operation Blessing (given a beeeeg boost a few weeks back by FEMA) is also doing its part to actively advance the cause of evil in the world, funneling money to shady African diamond cartels. I can't wait for all that hurricane relief money to end up buying AKs for some diamond "merchants" in Sierra Leone.