Bev, thanks for speaking out against this old fool.He gets crazier with each
comment., Ray
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From: "Beverly Bashe" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: Pat Robertson's Katrina Cash


> In my opinion, Pat Robinson is a Grade-A jerk, and should be banned from
> public airwaves.  He almost sounds deranged, puffed up with his own
> perceived power...and, unfortunately, influences too many people.
>
> Bev Bashe
> ---- rayilynlee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Pat Robertson's is the face of Christianity the world sees.  We need to
>> denounce him.
>>       Pat Robertson's Katrina Cash
>>       Max Blumenthal
>>
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>>       Every cloud has a silver lining. Hurricane Katrina has devastated
>> New Orleans, leaving thousands dead and hundreds of thousands homeless,
>> and plunging the entire city into chaos. In the hurricane's wake, the
>> Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and its director, Michael
>> Brown, forced out of his former job at the International Arabian Horse
>> Association, with no credentials in disaster relief, have become targets
>> of withering criticism. Yet FEMA's relief efforts have brought
>> considerable assistance to at least one man who stands to benefit from
>> Hurricane Katrina perhaps more than any other individual: Pat Robertson.
>>
>>       With the Bush Administration's approval, Robertson's $66 million
>> relief organization, Operation Blessing, has been prominently featured on
>> FEMA's list of charitable groups accepting donations for hurricane
>> relief. Dozens of media outlets, including the New York Times, CNN and
>> the Associated Press, duly reprinted FEMA's list, unwittingly acting as
>> agents soliciting cash for Robertson. "How in the heck did that happen?"
>> Richard Walden, president of the disaster-relief group Operation USA,
>> asked of Operation Blessing's inclusion on FEMA's list. "That gives Pat
>> Robertson millions of extra dollars."
>>
>>       Though Operation USA has conducted disaster relief for more than
>> twenty-five years on five continents, like scores of other secular relief
>> groups currently helping victims of Hurricane Katrina, it was omitted
>> from FEMA's list. In fact, only two non-"faith-based" organizations were
>> included. (One of them, the American Red Cross, is being blocked from
>> entering New Orleans by FEMA's parent agency, the Department of Homeland
>> Security.) FEMA, meanwhile, has reportedly turned away Wal-Mart trucks
>> carrying food and water to the stricken city, teams of firemen from
>> Maryland and Texas, volunteer morticians and a convoy of 1,000 boat
>> owners offering to help rescue stranded flood victims. While relief
>> efforts falter in the face of colossal bureaucratic incompetence, the
>> Bush Administration's promotion of Operation Blessing has ensured that
>> the floodwaters swallowing New Orleans will be a rising tide lifting
>> Robertson's boat.
>>
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