VQR tantalizes us with an advance release of one of their Spring issue articles. Bill Sizemore, author of The Christian with Four Aces, has been writing about Robertson for over twelve years. Now that’s a whole lotta fruitcake.
I spoiled Pat Robertson’s birthday.
I know, because he told me so.
On March 22, 2007, the day he turned seventy-seven, the televangelist and I sat eyeball-to-eyeball across the corner of a long table in a dark-paneled conference room at the Christian Broadcasting Network’s cross-shaped headquarters in Virginia Beach. Also at the table were two CBN lawyers and the editor, publisher, and lawyer from the newspaper I write for, the Virginian-Pilot. We had been summoned for a tongue-lashing over a story I had written about Robertson. It was a vicious piece, full of lies, he fumed—and what’s more, I had consciously timed its appearance to ruin his birthday. He demanded a retraction, a correction, an apology. If he didn’t get it, he implied none too subtly, he would sue.
“You guys are as crooked as a snake,” he sputtered. “I’ll have you all in depositions for the rest of your life.”
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