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Of course, I nodded. Made perfect sense. "I was wondering who it is. Is it Marvin
Hamlisch?"
Falwell said he didn't know whether or not the composer of "The Way We Were" and
A Chorus Line was, in fact, the Antichrist. So Falwell's a nut.
Now over to Robertson. I don't know if you ever watch his show, The 700 Club. I still
watch it every once in a while just to stay current. And when I do, the highlight is always
when Pat does his faith healing. He'll say something like, "There's a woman in Ohio who's
just been cured of her diverticulitis. Praise God!"
I watch that, and I think to myself, Pat Robertson doesn't think through everything
he's saying. Think about it. Let's say for a minute that you're a woman in Dayton and you
have diverticuli tis. You turn on The 700 Club and you hear Pat Robertson say, "There's a
woman in Ohio who's just been cured of her diverticulitis. Praise God!" And you think it's
you!
Only, it's not you. It's a woman in Cincinnati. But you think it's you. So you eat a
bowl of nuts. And you die!
See? That's why I don't think Pat Robertson thinks through everything he's saying.
And frankly, it doesn't make any sense to me. I mean, if God can tell Pat Robertson that it's a
woman, in Ohio, and it's diverticulitis, and it's been cured—why can't he tell Pat Robertson
the woman's name? And her address? It makes no sense whatsoever.
So Falwell and Robertson are a little nuts, right? And what Falwell said was pretty
disgusting. Everyone can agree on that. Even Robertson later apologized. He said he had
been distracted by something in his earpiece and hadn't really been focusing on what was
coming out of Falwell's mouth.
Ann Coulter wrote about this incident in Slander. So who did she go after? Walter
Cronkite. The man she calls that "pious leftwing blowhard."
In the wake of an attack on America committed by crazed fundamentalist Muslims,
Walter Cronkite denounced Jerry Falwell. Falwell, it seems, had remarked that gay
marriage and abortion on demand may not have warmed the heart of the Almighty.
Cronkite proclaimed such a statement "the most abominable thing I've ever heard."
Showing his renowned dispassion and critical thinking, this Martha's Vineyard millionaire
commented that Falwell was "worshipping the same God as the people
who bombed the World Trade Center and the Pentagon" (the difference being liberals
urged compassion and understanding toward the terrorists).