His Worst Nightmare is a Lesbian Ayatollah!Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson is the founder and chairman of The Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) Inc., and a vocal and sometimes amusingly irrational promoter of conservative christian causes.
Robertson was born on March 22, 1930, in Lexington, Virginia, to A. Willis Robertson and Gladys Churchill Robertson. His father served for 34 years in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.
After graduating from a military prep school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Robertson attended Washington and Lee University and graduated in 1950. He served as the assistant adjutant of the First Marine Division in combat in Korea. Robertson received a juris doctor degree from Yale University Law School in 1955 and a master of divinity degree from New York Theological Seminary in 1959.
In November 1959 Robertson left New York with his wife, Dede, and their three children and moved to Tidewater, Virginia, where he bought a bankrupt UHF television station in Portsmouth. CBN was formed January 11, 1960, and on October 1, 1961, CBN went on the air for the first time.
CBN was the first Christian television network established in the United States. Today CBN is one of the world's largest television ministries and produces programming seen in 200 nations and heard in 70 languages. CBN's flagship program, The 700 Club, which Robertson hosts, reaches an average of one million American viewers daily. Speaking on the program in March 2006, Robbers said that "the goal of Islam, ladies and gentlemen whether you like it or not, is world domination."
Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation (OBI), founded by Mr. Robertson in 1978, is a nonunion relief and development organization which has distributed more than $1.1 billion in goods.
Robertson was the founder and co-chairman of International Family Entertainment Inc. (IFE). Formed in 1990, IFE produced and distributed family entertainment and information programming worldwide. IFE's principal business was The Family Channel, a satellite delivered cable-television network with 63 million U.S. subscribers. IFE, a publicly held company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, was sold in 1997 to Fox Kids Worldwide, Inc. for $1.9 billion. Disney acquired the Fox Family Channel in 2001 and named it ABC Family.
Located in Virginia Beach, Va., Regent University was founded in 1977 by Robertson, who serves as its president and chancellor.
Robertson is the author of seventeen books including Miracles Can Be Yours Today, Courting Disaster, Bring It On, Six Steps To Revival, The New Millennium, The New World Order, and his first fiction, The End of the Age.
Pat and Dede Robertson have four children and fourteen grandchildren. They live in Virginia Beach, Virginia. | |
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Cheryl | Posted at 2:09pm on Monday, July 16th, 2007 | Pat Robertson is one of the most evil men living. He's completely perverted the Bible for his own agenda. There's a nice hot place reserved for him when he dies.
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