Pat Robertson calls NSA spying Big Brother

[kpete]

Pat Robertson calls NSA spying Big Brother
by josephk
Thu May 11, 2006 at 06:27:27 AM PDT

Ok this is bizarre to admit, but every once in a while, I flick through and land on 700 Club. I guess it is like watching a car crash.

But what do my eyes and ears catch just minutes ago.

Pat Robertson totally slamming the Database Mining project of this NSA spying (He is by the way of clarification in total support of the NSA spying on "terrorists")

..............

I have no idea what kind of people actually watch this buffoon, or if they are able to wipe the spittle from the mouths long enough to coherently do anything about this.

But, we seem to have a winner of an issue Ladies and Gentlemen. When Pat Robertson calls out the BushCo administration as "Big Brother" ... that whole idea that the NSA is a good issue (according to Karl Rove) ... well ... maybe not afterall.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/5/11/92727/6296

[stepnw1f]

1. Not My "Big Brother"

You can keep your Orwellian "Big Brother"...

[C_U_L8R]

2. Bush is spying on Pat too

as well as the Freepers

[NNN0LHI]

12. Oh, no. The system is designed to monitor only liberals phone calls

At least that is what some ignorant Fox news watchers believe.

Don

[tanyev]

3. Well, Pat Robertson probably makes quite a few phone calls

he doesn't want traced.

Pat Robertson and His Business Buddies

By Colbert I. King
Saturday, November 10, 2001; Page A27

Joseph Mathews is Pat Robertson's point man in a Liberian mining venture called Freedom Gold Limited. Mathews doesn't much care for what has appeared in this column about his boss's business dealings in Liberia, so he's trying to put a little distance between the televangelist and that West African nation's strongman, Charles Taylor.

This much is known, however, based primarily on information obtained from Freedom Gold Limited. Pat Robertson did learn about the gold mining investment opportunity from a visiting Liberian delegation. Robertson did subsequently create the for-profit Freedom Gold Limited in the Cayman Islands in December 1998 in which he was listed as the president and the company's sole director. He did conclude a mining agreement signed personally by him, Charles Taylor and key members of Taylor's cabinet on May 18, 1999. And the deal does give the Taylor regime a cut of the action.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A5339-2001Nov9

[Hubert Flottz]

7. Well we know that Bush was spying on the Quakers...

Of course Pat isn't exactly preaching about PEACE, when he talks about whacking foreign presidents for Jesus...

[Hubert Flottz]

4. I wish Pat Roberts would too!

He'd scream it if Clinton had spied on folks!

[B3Nut]

5. This type of data mining

is the type of thing Fundamentalists believe the Beast/Antichrist will run. I don't agree with the dispensationalist pretribulation-rapture end-times scenario these guys espouse (I think the Beast of Revelation was Nero) but if it causes the fundies to turn on Der Chimpenfuehrer, so much the better! :D

Impeach, Indict, Imprison!

Todd in Beerbratistan

[seabeyond]

6. things he is afraid to found out too. you think. lol lol n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

10. Maybe he's been playing some Pokeher at the watergate with

the BOYS!

[Jim Warren]

16. More likely some Gold commodity market scam n/t

[MessiahRp]

8. Howard Fineman said Rove and Bush WANT to have the fight

on wiretapping which is why they put Hayden out there. They think it's a political winner.

Rp

[Norquist Nemesis]

13. Yes, but with the USAToday story they might re-think it

Rove's been keeping this on the terms of "the Terrorist Surveillence Program". As long as they're able to keep it narrowly defined, they're able to fool the public. But the USAToday story ...well, we'll see how the public handles it. With Bush's poll numbers below freezing, I'm not so sure the public's still going to buy the TSP product without demanding to know what the entire line of spy products is.

[MessiahRp]

14. MSNBC just ran their piece

and took great pains to cover for them. They said the "NSA is not listening to or monitoring overseas calls" and made it seem as if the records were being datamined for calls to foreign numbers.

So they will have the media keeping it a foreign monitoring discussion for them, as early media reports have done.

Rp

[YOY]

9. Don't really think I care what Robertson thinks

Even when he appears to agree with me he is still a televangelist and a weasel.

[wtmusic]

11. Pat doesn't want Democrats spying on him after the midterms

Republicans, they're OK. We can trust them.

[DinahMoeHum]

15. Yeah, well, up against yourself, Pat.

:nopity: