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Name: Marion Gordon Robertson
Age: 81
Occupation: old preacherLast Seen: Virginia Beach, VA
Bee-otched For: being old and confused
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Do you take this lawfully-wedded wife, for richer or poorer, for sickness and in health...
Except when he or she has Alzheimers?
As many of us know by now, the almighty creator and host of The 700 Club, Pat Robertson is at it again. On his show last week, the televanglist was answering questions from viewers, and one of them involved a man whose wife got Alzheimers but he's now with a different woman. Robertson chimed that as long as she's being well cared for, that yes, it's OK to move on and divorce your mentally ill spouse.
Yep. This is the same geezer who had a field day with the Terri Shiavo case and has bashed gays for even wanting to marry. for years.
OK, Pat, just WHERE in the Bible does it say that it's OK to divorce somebody based on disability? I thought I heard from people like you for years that God hates divorce. But ditching somebody with Alzheimers? Talk about cruel.
Yet another reason why I hate Pat Robertson with a passion. He's just another snake oil salesman who preys on the elderly and poor to give him money, and yet he's reportedly a billionaire. He comes up with whack-ass statements that go up agaisnt Biblical principle while bashing gays and liberals alike even though the Bible says nothing about them being evil. Thanks, but I'll spend what's little of my money elsewhere.
However, today, we have an honorable mention for Bee-otch of the Day, and it's northern Michigan's TV stations, especially local Fox affiliate WFQX 32. Fox 32 is only one of two TV stations in Michigan still airing The 700 Club (Detroit's WMYD 20's the other) as far as I know. What's more annoying is that Fox 32 finally canceled the extremely popular Maury, which they buried in the 3 a.m. hour ever since CBS affiliate WWTV 9&10 owner Mario Iacobelli bought the station using one of his pals from Arizona (FCC rules prohibit Iacobelli from owning two TV stations in a small market like Traverse City/Cadillac, but there's nothing in the rules that they couldn't pull a Bill Tobin). Even worse, 1) Fox 32 has added more infomercials and 2) nobody in the market seems to be interested in Maury or even Jerry Springer for that matter (it's syndiemate, Steve Wilkos, however can be seen on the cable only CW station). Not even Traverse City's two indies - WLLZ 12 (MyNetworkTV/RTV) or the mostly-classics WMNN 26.2 - seemed to be interested in either, even though 12 picked up Family Guy and American Dad and 26.2 is now airing Family Feud and the awfulWendy Williams Show. What might be more funnier is that Barrington Broadcasting - who owns NBC WPBN 7&4 and is Tobining out ABC WGTU 29&8 - just addedMaury and Springer to their Fox affiliate in Marquette.
Funny, people in northern Michigan won't know who the babydaddy is, but they'll know that if they donate to The 700 Club, everything will come up roses. This is why duopolies suck, folks. If I were the FCC, I'd be looking into the local media to prove that when you only have four major stations in the market and two owners, you're going to get a ton of infomercials and evil preachers going after your money and not enough "JERRY! JERRY! JERRY!"
But then again, you can sit in a backwoods neighborhood near South Boardman all day and it's the same thing as an episode of either show.
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Age: 81
Occupation: old preacherLast Seen: Virginia Beach, VA
Bee-otched For: being old and confused
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Do you take this lawfully-wedded wife, for richer or poorer, for sickness and in health...
Except when he or she has Alzheimers?
As many of us know by now, the almighty creator and host of The 700 Club, Pat Robertson is at it again. On his show last week, the televanglist was answering questions from viewers, and one of them involved a man whose wife got Alzheimers but he's now with a different woman. Robertson chimed that as long as she's being well cared for, that yes, it's OK to move on and divorce your mentally ill spouse.
Yep. This is the same geezer who had a field day with the Terri Shiavo case and has bashed gays for even wanting to marry. for years.
OK, Pat, just WHERE in the Bible does it say that it's OK to divorce somebody based on disability? I thought I heard from people like you for years that God hates divorce. But ditching somebody with Alzheimers? Talk about cruel.
Yet another reason why I hate Pat Robertson with a passion. He's just another snake oil salesman who preys on the elderly and poor to give him money, and yet he's reportedly a billionaire. He comes up with whack-ass statements that go up agaisnt Biblical principle while bashing gays and liberals alike even though the Bible says nothing about them being evil. Thanks, but I'll spend what's little of my money elsewhere.
However, today, we have an honorable mention for Bee-otch of the Day, and it's northern Michigan's TV stations, especially local Fox affiliate WFQX 32. Fox 32 is only one of two TV stations in Michigan still airing The 700 Club (Detroit's WMYD 20's the other) as far as I know. What's more annoying is that Fox 32 finally canceled the extremely popular Maury, which they buried in the 3 a.m. hour ever since CBS affiliate WWTV 9&10 owner Mario Iacobelli bought the station using one of his pals from Arizona (FCC rules prohibit Iacobelli from owning two TV stations in a small market like Traverse City/Cadillac, but there's nothing in the rules that they couldn't pull a Bill Tobin). Even worse, 1) Fox 32 has added more infomercials and 2) nobody in the market seems to be interested in Maury or even Jerry Springer for that matter (it's syndiemate, Steve Wilkos, however can be seen on the cable only CW station). Not even Traverse City's two indies - WLLZ 12 (MyNetworkTV/RTV) or the mostly-classics WMNN 26.2 - seemed to be interested in either, even though 12 picked up Family Guy and American Dad and 26.2 is now airing Family Feud and the awfulWendy Williams Show. What might be more funnier is that Barrington Broadcasting - who owns NBC WPBN 7&4 and is Tobining out ABC WGTU 29&8 - just addedMaury and Springer to their Fox affiliate in Marquette.
Funny, people in northern Michigan won't know who the babydaddy is, but they'll know that if they donate to The 700 Club, everything will come up roses. This is why duopolies suck, folks. If I were the FCC, I'd be looking into the local media to prove that when you only have four major stations in the market and two owners, you're going to get a ton of infomercials and evil preachers going after your money and not enough "JERRY! JERRY! JERRY!"
But then again, you can sit in a backwoods neighborhood near South Boardman all day and it's the same thing as an episode of either show.
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