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Pat Robertson: President Obama Is Inciting Occupy Wall Street Protestors To ‘Revolt’

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On Monday’s 700 Club, televangelist Pat Robertson accused President Obama of spurring Occupy Wall Street protestors to rise up. “The match to the kindling is being provided by our noble president,” Robertson said. “He is inciting people to revolt.”

CBN anchorman Lee Webb introduced the segment by discussing Greece’s austerity protests and questioned whether demonstrations in Lower Manhattan would devolve into rioting.

RELATED: Eric Cantor Says He’s ‘Worried’ About The Occupied Wall Street ‘Mobs’

“You have to wonder, Is it going to turn violent?” asked Webb. “I don’t expect it to because of the winter months ahead, but you know, as you look ahead to next year, an election year and the summer, your thoughts go back to 1968, which was a cauldron for this country.”

Watch the segment below, via CBN:

(h/t Raw Story)

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  • SammyC

    Pat Robertson is the wealthiest Evangelical Christian in the world. He has donated almost nothing in his entire career and uses slave labour in a diamond mine in Africa. You’re cold hearted prick! News flash Pat, if there’s a heaven, you’ll never see it.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Why do Republicons keep listening to this old fool??

  • Anonymous

    Yup, pretty much like being in a church that says “God Damn America!”

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Mediaite: The only people left on Earth who take Pat Robertson seriously.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    What I find interesting is that in a nation which supposedly traces its founding to a revolution all the rightists get their kickers in a knot at the idea that people are doing something revolutionary.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Good point. But maybe Mediaite felt this would be a good chance to bring its commenters together on something.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Obama does led these OWS scum doesn’t he!

  • wawoo

    Pat Robertson, why any thing Jerimiah Wright ever said seems reasonable.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Wright is Saint Pancras next to Robertson.

  • Anonymous

    Whoever Dan Abrams puts in time-out at Mediaite has to watch the 700 Club .

    That insures good behavior by all .

  • Anonymous

    The Right has become equivalent to the Loyalists that supported the Crown only this time they are ‘Corporate Loyalist’

    When are the TeaBaggers going to look behind them and see who’s really screwing them?

  • Concerned Citizen

    Robertson is right. Obama and the Dems have had the talking points of 99% vs 1% for months now. They are playing with fire.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    If Steve doesn’t make his Mediaite quota, Big Drew puts him on Bob Cesca duty.

  • Jason

    Most don’t.. I have the same question for Democrats, regarding Obama.

  • Jason

    No he’s not. They’re both assh0les. You just don’t mind black racists because you’re an idiot liberal.

  • Mencius

    Why anyone would trust this snake oil salesman is beyond me. It takes about 5 seconds to see that this guy doesn’t live at all like Jesus preached. He’s wealthy (Jesus says repeatedly: give up your wealth or you won’t get into Heaven), judgmental (cast the first stone), and clearly hateful (love thy enemy). I thought Jesus also said something about the poor and meek being the best of the earth, not Republican business leaders. 

    The only difference between this guy and Harold Camping, the rapture Family Radio guy, is that Robertson is a little smarter and has managed to swindle more people. Even if he believes 100 percent what he says (unlikely), he’d still just be deluding himself into thinking he speaks for Christians. I think there was even a term for people like that… False prophets, was it? 

  • Anonymous

    Haha Jason! You lose the argument to Greg because you used vulgar language and ad hominem attacks!
    Greg is your superior now!

  • Jason

    You D-baggers get around to protesting the President and his corporate buddies yet?

    Didn’t think so. Try harder next time, hippy.

  • Anonymous

    This “Pulpit Political Perpetrator” must be suffering from Alzheimer’s as he is spewing when he should shut TFU! He has absolutely no knowledge of what’s really going on and wished to interject lies to help secure votes for his extreme right!  Robertson is a “Political Puppet Prognosticator” pushing his narrow-minded political extreme viewpoints! There is no revolt as he purports and the president is not pushing the “Occupy Wall Street” because he can’t! ”Occupy Wall Street” adopting the idea of debt repudiation is not just a “Conservative” ideal but a world wide ideal, just like ”Love of Country” not Exclusive to Republicans or TEA party-ers! This boils down to jobs and the current 112th Congress has done nothing to generate jobs! These “freshmen” congress people were elected when they ran on legislating new jobs and then turn around and legislated non-funding the previous Congress’ legislation and against the Health Care Act passed previously! On the local level some bills in the house directly opposed abortion funding or stricter rules and restrictions rather than those jobs they said they’d produce! Robertson is an agitator, instigator and perverted pulpit perpetrator!

  • Jason

    Robertson is a tired old kook, but he’s absolutely spot on here. The only way Zero figures he can win re-election is if his braindead flock are out causing problems for functioning human beings.

  • Anonymous

    Or NOT!

  • Anonymous

    You mean the Liberal bottom-feeders, led by Obimbo? We are fully aware of who is screwing who. Maybe it’s time for you to look behind… you?

  • Exgoper

    Um, Barack Obama was elected president by a significant majority of American voters in 2008. Robertson was elected to squat. 

    Pay attention. 

  • Roger_Fails

    Thanks for letting us know that your comments are absolutely worthless and can be skipped past. 

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Such understanding an early grade school educational standard in most states.  Funny how some forget so much.  

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Or… you believe him to be a “black racist” as consequence of personal convenience married to intellectual sloth.  

  • Charlie Kane

    Who but borderline morons even listens any longer to this senile old man and his incoherent rantings. 

  • Anonymous

    Can you do any better than that?

    That was just weak in every way and you just support my point as to how stupid you personally are!

  • lazzzlo

    If I was younger I’d probably be there; if not to join then certainly to taunt. 

    I’m a middle aged Christian that still loves the Clash.

    What should I do?

  • Mr. Pennypacker

    I’m a Tea Party member and I joined the 99% movement because I was tired of the government and corporations causing this country to go down the drain. Both are responsible for the reason why we find ourselves in this terrible situation. I’m asking all my Tea Party brothers and sisters to join the movement.  

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Most impressive knowledge of the saints.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Gradeschool…
    http://stmarysniles.com/

  • Michelle

    If you can get them to shower and stop robbing their fellow protesters blinds, we’ll talk. 

  • Mr. Pennypacker

    I’ll work on it and love your posts by the way, you’re a hoot.  

  • Jason

    They’re both stark raving mad egomaniacal jackasses.

    Pay attention.

  • Jason

    So you support insane racist assh0les if they happen to believe in the same end game you do?

    Maybe that’s why you hypocritical dickheads don’t mind that China, Iran, the KKK, Black Panthers, Nazi’s, Code Stinko and 99% of the Death Row population in the country support your idiotic freeloader movement.

    Your stupidity is noted. Enjoy minority status.

  • Jason

    When they figure out where 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is I will stop laughing and probably manage to agree with some of the more moderate people in the movement. Until that happens, it’s a bought and paid for movement of sheep.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Wright is not a racist. The movement is not dedicated to “freeloading”.  I am hardly stupid and demographics will soon relegate your brand of thought to a permanently small fraction amongst members of our grand republic.  Cursing in public is quite damaging to ones image… I suggest you clean it up.  Your great grandchildren will one day be asked to report on their genealogy using the digital record and their embarrassment will be great at your current pace.   

  • lazzzlo

    GPS will be an app.

  • Exgoper

    You fail.

  • MikeInOKC

    Idiot…comparing potus to some idiotic right wing televangelist.

  • MikeInOKC

    Non-sequitur. Jump off a bridge already, loser.

  • Anonymous

    Is it a question?  Is it a statement?

    Well folks, today is your lucky day – YOU’RE BOTH RIGHT!

  • Anonymous

    No Pat, its you that has been doing that for decades.

  • Anonymous

    No Pat, its you that has been doing that for decades.

  • Jason

    One is an idiotic right wing televangelist and the other is an idiotic left wing televangelist. Believing in Jesus is only outdone on the stupidity meter by believing in Obama.

  • Doris =:o

    *******************I am happy people are discussing real life instead of Kim Kardashian or my bud “Charlie”, and the new version of the old show!!!  

    Keep it up, it helps, to exchange.  Education & information is power to the individual and the big group, the country struggling as we know it today in 2011.If anyone gets anything helpful or positive out of my following blog/x stream of conscientiousness , great, that would be cool.  If not, sorry, a family member who I love and can’t hep too much suggested it after the dealing with 3 years of unemployment, and believing that I would get what I need, and I have.  Food, clothing and shelter, and a bus pass.  That’s it, a lesson I needed to learn, and I personally am a more mindful person because of it, but it is hard being 50, and having to carry my own load and learning to ask for help, but if it doesn’t work out,, it’s okay, to hear no, and it’s better to be humble and ask in the first place!!!Here I go, look out:          It’s very evident that no one wants to do the right thing for me and you and work together like post depression/stock crash of ’29…. Roosevelt didnt get the country out of the mess of the depression, post -prohibition america (?).,( kinda looks like today with the rich getting richer on their wiles , legal or not, on the backs of the rest of the country.)…whether it’s Cheney/bush and their little coven making warmonger deals that would have been “conflict of interest” for you or me right???          We, Americans, are so delusional, we don’t want to ever admit we’re wrong, and continue to point fingers at anyone but our part, (mortgages/gluttony)……okay we got that, in 2008, so let’s fix it for the masses, before that little rich clique, elitist group is out manned by true democracy, the people here are hungry and cold, so if we can try to make USA look like such “do gooders” helping other countries, (but we always want something/we’re not doing unto others or acting christian like, we ‘re playing games with the lives of our country, that’s not what the founders, or the real change makers did.  
             I am proud of only one thing that how come we knew enough to elect the first black president, although 50 years ago we wouldn’t eat together, and now we vote him in, but then think that he’s “harry potter” and can fix the mess in 2 years!!!  

           I Just read that last sentence, and it’s idiotic and comes from the minds of people who don’t want to work together with “different” Americans because like most of us at some point in our lives, they are afraid to be courageous and take a stand like Thoreau, ML K, Roosevelt….just remember “President Obama” saw the similarities in heading into the depression, and also that our infrastructure is crumbling..and suggested getting people to work on the roads, bridges, I assume he was blocked….because I stopped hearing about it until recently again…he had the humility and insight at least to say hey, this happened in our history before..hmmm stock market crash..1929, FDR, WPA……check it out.

    Work Progress Association/Works Projects Administration”:
     
       ”the WPA provided jobs and income to the unemployed during the Great Depression in the United States. Between 1935 and 1943, the WPA provided almost eight million jobs.[3] Full employment, which emerged as a national goal around 1944, was not the WPA goal. It tried to provide one paid job for all families where the breadwinner suffered long-term unemployment.”
    (wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration. 

              Check out the next manhole cover you step on,  the the dates won’t all be 1937, it took 8 yrs, and if you keep reading the left and the right did squabble, just as foolishly as today!  It wasn’t a cure all then, and it’s not going to be an overnight fix now either, it  took time to get the country on it’s feet, but he had the guts to get the country moving, and The New Deal and the WPA’s works lead up to the boom of WW2 (also something that history repeats), where due to the War unemployment was the lowest it had been. 
             But the WPA/New Deal brought us, slowly and sparingly, had given millions of destitute Americans a job for those 8 years, and many of the libraries and lakes, highways, golf courses, generations have and still benefit from these improvements in every state!

             I am ashamed that “Washington” is not listening to their “constituents”, but politicking with our lives.  The debt ceiling debacle in August was so embarrassing that a majority of one side would not see the gravity of the situation, and give some respect to the office and the person of “Mr. President, Barack Obama”. 
     
                 To me it’s acting like they were all in a corporate “boardroom”, and you and I were not in the equation at all, just not willing to act like the influential and lawmaking and people -helping “voices of the people” at all.

    I felt like just like everything else, it came to who’s got the bigger “bill” or pen, or who can “out bat” whom, sorry, but men playing sports, and being “unsportsmanlike” to say the least, and knowing we’re watching it all!!

               History repeats itself….growing up I listened to the depression stories from family members, and remember the gas lines of the 70′s, and we dealt with it,… without ramming SUV’s or our “wagons” into our neighbor.   

             Today and yesterday I walked and talked to the “occupiers” in RI. and feel less alone again, and hopeful.
      
             In 12 days my unemployment runs out after 3 years, and another phase of getting what I need, not want, or desire, will begin, but my landlord said, we’ll take it a day at a time.

             She is living in her humanity and extending it to another….that’s the way I now try to live, being grateful, and maybe I can admit I am an adult learning adult lessons, at age 50.

            I can advocate for myself, and have researched and found tools that are semi-hidden from those of us that may be in need. But not everyone has the ability or the drive or the information.

    *****If you are unemployed, but fortunate enough that your landlord is taking what you get from Unemployment

     or however you can afford, or you are about to be evicted, there is help for you.

    ****You must have received a demand letter from your landlord, take it and go to your local housing

    agency and ask for help via: THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMS THAT CAME OUT OF President Obama’s 

    STIMULUS PACKAGE  http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/recovery/programs/homelessness

    It’s the “Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program”, but I had to go 

    back a second time and ASK : “I would like to see if I am eligible for the 

    Homelessness  Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program please”.  The object is to get you or me into a different apt with a lower rent , one that my/our unemployment benefits can cover, than at least we avoid homelessness in         addition to joblessness, and the goal is to get a job, before unemp benefits run out,and I can stay in this new cheaper apt if I get a job, kind of without my peeps, but it’s a safe place!!                I try to spread what I have learned and give extra stuff I have to someone else,  if they can use it.  It is better to give than received I know now.   My goal is to help those I meet in my daily journey, because we have to share the little bit the “Machine”(!) allows us to know in order to help ourselves, that way maybe eventually they ‘ll learn from us, the people.
                  And it is a successful day if I make at least one person laugh, it is the best and simple and soothing medicine, as Reader’s Digest told me as a kid!!

                 Pat Robertson and anyone who attempts to comment on what’s going on, but doesn’t lead a similar life, is speaking strictly out of the fear that you and I will realize, hey Pat you know nothing of this life today, real life…we know who you really are,  you are sitting above middle America, no longer living as you and I do, but instead looking out at us or down on us, and managing a religious meglomonopoly, basically inventing their own industry, based on others needs, preying on those looking for an answer from someone, anyone, and sitting at home, stuck, exposed to his twisted thinking cuz he generates $ becuz of his outrageougeousness, that’s only why he’s syndicated because someone else down the line makes big $ just because of his drivel, and that he’s willing to compromise his sense of right and wrong behind fallacies and our need to believe a man on  earth other than your self knows something special about how my God wants me to live this life.

                  I understand the tea party’s desire to at least do something, but if the Real Repubs have no humility to work with anyone than the tea party is out of luck too, Mr Pennypacker, I agree with you in regard to both sides, but in addition to the banks taking advantage of “Joe public” wanting to refinance or  buy a bigger piece of the dream, each individual has to ask themselves how culpable as an individual was he/she in signing the paperwork when they had a funny feeling about the terms or the “Quicken quickie mortgage online” that wound up a little different at the closing.
             I do believe the banks sucked a lot of people in, but then there were mortgage companies telling borrowers to lie about their income, and those at the top of the closest thing to a ponzi-esque , illegal in sheep’s clothing, that constant media pressure to get a bigger house, SUV, dog, computer etc…              The American Dream got carried away, no doubt, and I say that from personal poor decisions I made after getting downsized after 13 years with a major American Corporation. But I now understand that the material world will always have the potential to be fleeting, so take it as it comes, one day at a time, and forget the competing with the “Jones’”.  And when you figure out that you only really should get what you need, not what you think you WANT, you’ll probably find yourself  to be a happy person!  
    Thanks for listening, & keep on keeping on, we shall overcome!Peace to all,D =:o 

  • Doris =:o

    Be yourself, you’re wonderful!!!  =:o

  • Doris =:o

    Have I got my own lil explosive rant for all!!
    I think I made some sense for the common good not, the senile old rich men with their incoherent rantings!  Man, sometimes I think some of the “kids” today are so smart that they get what idiots we’re all surrounded by if we listen, but then some of them are just like, typical teenager “apathy”, who cares.  I thank God now that I lived through the many lessons of the 60′s, but also the slowness of a Sunday when there weren’t any cars on the road, and the drugstore on the corner and as a kid you could run around the neighborhood and my mother would ring a bell to get me to come in on a hot summer night.   Of course I do remember the guys sniffing glue in my yard, while I was upstairs listening to them act like idiots!!!       Here I am 50 and I thought I would never survive 40!!  

    I would like to compliment Radsenior on  your combination of agitator, instigator and perverted pulpit perpetrator!!!!

    I am writing/blogging /getting involved because I am a writer at heart, published college try #1 in 1980, and compared to “Dylan Thomas”, great …..but fortunately, unlike the alcohol soaked Mr. Thomas I got sober…but only recently feel the need to write again, pretty cool, unemployment will allow the mind to meander I guess!!

    D =:o

  • odaat1120

    Good Evening Radsenior~

    I would like to compliment you on your combination of agitator, instigator and perverted pulpit perpetrator!!!!

    I am writing/blogging /getting involved because I am a writer at heart, published at college  #1 in 1980, and compared to “Dylan Thomas”, by the lil hippie prof,  …..but fortunately, unlike the alcohol soaked 
    Mr. Thomas I did get sober…but only recently have I suddenly felt the need/desire to write again, pretty cool, unemployment will allow the mind to meander I guess!!

    D =:o

  • odaat1120

    Hi just4thefax~

    Excuse me, the rest of us seem to be typing English, you might want to go back to watching 
    Pawn Brokers….because I have no idea what : “Obama does led these OWS scum doesn’t he!”I bet you didn’t even vote because “you don’t like any one em”?Please address my President as “President Obama, as anyone in that Office has earned.Facts/or “Fax” for you:~ 8 years of balanced budget under President Clinton, ~ then 8 years of President Bush’s Warmongering via contracts for VP Cheney/Halliburton,   (conflict of interest if it were you and I brokering such deals), by the by, ~ equals what President Obama knew he was walking into on 1/20/09. ~ What I am appalled at his how we cannot get the politicians to speak for you and me, like their job    description says.  ~ It’s an embarrassment and shows what America has really become.~ We can no longer hide what the bottom line is / has become, greed and money.~ But the idiots on TV only feed the frenzy, I haven’t read “People Magazine” since their coverage in 1997  of Princess Diana’s death because it was a sideshow.  ~Limbaugh is only being seen or heard because he’s still alive, if not it would be Falwell, or some other  snakeskin oil selling mouth.~With any hope, and there’s always hope, “Just”, one day, you will say to your self or your remote,  ”Oh he’s just talking cuz they and everyone connected with them shows / network, are gettting   REAL RICH! ~I was part of a team that put the first FOX affiliate on the air in 1984 out of Boston, I am still proud to say. Back then Ted Turner was making his move, and Murdoch was manipulating the FCC to acquire his network, little did we know!  But those were the crazy 80′s, 3 owners in 4 years, and Bankruptcy, and I ran the programming dept but it was the premiere of Married With Children, Tracey Ullmann, The Simpsons, and Star Trek,  Wild Wild West, and Twilight Zone re-runs!!!~ Now that was television as I grew up on, entertainment and Meet the Press, David Susskind, if you weren’t entertained you were listening to someone with an intelligent thought or two based on the real world and FACTS!!Night, night,D =:o

  • odaat1120

    I believe in Jason, he’s my H.P.

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