Last month, at the annual gathering of the National Religious Broadcasters, TV preacher Pat Robertson found himself on the outside looking in for the first time in his professional career. NRB effectively told Brother Pat, “Thanks for everything, but you’re not invited.”
Of course, Robertson denied the snub.
The CBN chairman insisted that he had decided on his own not to speak at the National Religious Broadcasters convention next week: “They told me that whatever I’d like to do would be fine. I was voted Broadcaster of the Year by the NRB. I was also voted into the Hall of Fame of the NRB.” Did some members of the board suggest he not speak? “I’m on the board, for heaven’s sake.”
Well, Pat, you were on the board.
If evidence is needed that the Rev. Pat Robertson’s shoot-from-the-hip approach to world affairs has embarrassed some of his fellow evangelicals, it comes from the recently concluded convention of the National Religious Broadcasters.
Robertson, 75, a longtime member of the NRB’s board of directors, failed to win reelection despite good odds: He was one of about 36 candidates running for 33 seats, NRB President Frank Wright said. […]
“I would say that there was broad dismay with some of Pat’s comments and a feeling they were not helpful to Christian broadcasters in general, but by no means was there any broad effort in our association to dissociate ourselves with him,” Wright said.
Here’s a question: do you suppose it was Robertson’s bizarre comments about Ariel Sharon’s stroke being ordered by God that did Robertson in, or was it more of a cumulative effect after a year of high-profile humiliations?