Word: televangelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joined the army. Not the U.S. army. My mother just joined the "invisible army" of former televangelist Pat Robertson...
...more attuned to their country's desires before concluding that today's moral crisis is easily handled with secular expertise. Pat Robertson's practiced intimacy, his instant if shallow friendliness, may frighten some. But it reassures others exactly because he is not theatrical or compelling (as, say, an earlier televangelist, Fulton Sheen, was). That breathy and winking chuckle we heard, debate after debate, did not constitute a last laugh by any means. But we are going to suffer that chuckle's soft abrasions for a long time -- for as long as we remain deaf to the alarm bells it responds...
...biased, he had banned the paper's correspondents from the bus. "But I just left a Post reporter," the journalist said. "I was sitting next to him." Robertson angrily summoned a press aide, who explained that the reporter on board, Bill Peterson, had not written anything offensive about the televangelist; it was T.R. Reid who had been blacklisted for his articles. "I don't care," Robertson retorted. "Get him off. I don't care if Katharine Graham tries to get on. Throw her off too." Nevertheless, Peterson was allowed to stay the rest...
...month before the Iowa caucuses, has there been any outcry over Robertson's TV tape? Not a bit. None of the Republican presidential candidates have dared to challenge Robertson on the church-state issue, even though the former televangelist may run third in Iowa. This seeming immunity from reproach is reminiscent of the see-no-evil response to Jesse Jackson's "Hymietown" slurs about New York City in 1984. The Democrats running last time out made only muted responses to those anti-Semitic comments, nor did they stress Jackson's ties with black Hatemonger Louis Farrakhan. Last fall Jackson received...
...their challengers is trying to capitalize on different touchstones of the "True Believers." Kemp is the fervent supply-sider, du Pont the apostle of free markets and Haig of standing tough and tall in the world. Perhaps most significant is Robertson's role as the Republican Jesse Jackson. The televangelist was never challenged on any of his debate statements, even when he claimed that the lost earnings of aborted fetuses could save the Social Security system, or that he would balance the budget by "cutting waste and mismanagement." Like the Democrats with Jackson, the G.O.P. contenders could only respond...