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Tuesday December 4, 2007
Pat Robertson:
Pat Robertson is turning over his duties as chief executive officer of the Christian Broadcasting Network to his son but will remain chairman, the 77-year-old outspoken religious broadcaster announced Monday.
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Friday November 30, 2007
Pat Robertson:
A man who said a private university founded by Pat Robertson suspended him over an image showing the televangelist with his middle finger extended has sued the school in federal court.
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Wednesday October 10, 2007
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A slowed down image of preacher Pat Robertson on YouTube transformed an innocent movement into an obscene gesture.
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Wednesday March 28, 2007
Pat Robertson:
Norfolk police have dismissed a claim by a Texas bodybuilder that religious broadcaster Pat Robertson threatened to kill him and his family.
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Monday March 19, 2007
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A lawsuit nearing trial has opened a rare window into the inner workings of Pat Robertson’s Virginia Beach-based media empire. At the heart of the case is an issue that has bedeviled Robertson repeatedly over the years: the fuzzy line between his tax-exempt operations and his profit-making ventures.
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Saturday February 10, 2007
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The accuser, Phillip Busch, is suing Robertson for misappropriation of his image in the promotion of Robertson’s protein diet shake.
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Monday January 8, 2007
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Pat Robertson may be the founder of the once-powerful Christian Coalition. He may attract nearly a million viewers a day to his “700 Club” television show. But when he claims to make divine prophecies — as he did, again, last week — many evangelicals say he undermines the credibility of their beliefs.
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Wednesday January 3, 2007
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In what has become an annual tradition of prognostications, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson said Tuesday God has told him that a terrorist attack on the United States would result in mass killing late in 2007.
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Thursday June 8, 2006
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Norfolk, Va. (AP) -- Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says it is the God's honest truth — he did, indeed, once leg-press a ton when he was almost 73 and had prostate cancer, and he still regularly lifts up to 1,200 pounds with his legs.
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Saturday May 27, 2006
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says he has leg-pressed 2,000 pounds, but some say he'd be in a pretty tough spot if he tried.
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Saturday May 20, 2006
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VIRGINIA BEACH (AP) — In another in a series of notable pronouncements, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says God told him storms and possibly a tsunami will hit America's coastline this year.
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Thursday March 2, 2006
Pat Robertson:
He's a pioneer and heavyweight in evangelical television, but Pat Robertson lost re-election to the National Religious Broadcasters' board of directors last month.
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Wednesday February 15, 2006
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Televangelist Pat Robertson's incendiary remarks raise concerns, even within the religious right movement he helped found.
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Thursday February 2, 2006
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Television evangelist Pat Robertson, who has rattled the religious and political establishment with recent controversial declarations, acknowledged Thursday "my passion runs ahead of me" on some occasions.
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Monday January 16, 2006
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Pat Robertson fires off controversial statements with a regularity that seems downright reckless not only to a big chunk of the public but also to an increasing number of evangelical leaders who say the Christian broadcaster doesn’t speak for them.
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Saturday January 14, 2006
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Israel is reconsidering its decision to break off contacts with Pat Robertson over the construction of a Christian heritage park after the U.S. evangelist apologized for saying Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's massive stroke was divine retribution, a spokesman said Saturday.
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Friday January 13, 2006
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American evangelist Pat Robertson apologized on Thursday for calling Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke divine punishment for withdrawing from the Gaza Strip.
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Thursday January 12, 2006
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Israel is pulling out of a $50 million deal with US TV evangelist Pat Robertson after he said Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine retribution.
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Friday January 6, 2006
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Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson suggested Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine punishment for "dividing God's land."
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Thursday January 5, 2006
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The Israeli government is planning to give up a large slice of land to American Christian evangelicals to build a biblical theme park by the Sea of Galilee where Jesus is said to have walked on water and fed 5,000 with five loaves and two fish.
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Friday November 11, 2005
Pat Robertson:
Eight 'intelligent design' school board members lost election
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Wednesday October 12, 2005
Pat Robertson:
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's vice president on Monday rejected as "crazy" accusations by American religious broadcaster Pat Robertson that President Hugo Chavez once sent money to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
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Monday September 5, 2005
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CARACAS, Sept. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday he received a letter of apology from US evangelist Pat Robertson, who last month made a call for the United States to assassinate him.
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Monday August 29, 2005
Pat Robertson:
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday his government would take legal action against Pat Robertson and potentially seek his extradition after the U.S. evangelist called for Washington to assassinate the South American leader.
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Pat Robertson:
Had He Been a Democrat, He'd Probably Be Hiring A Criminal Attorney
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