{"id":583,"date":"2011-10-06T00:36:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T07:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=583"},"modified":"2011-10-06T00:39:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T07:39:01","slug":"holy-huckster-pat-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":"Holy Huckster Pat Man!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Robertson recently made the news by making yet another controversial statement. Big surprise, right? This time Mr. 700 stated that he thought it might be okay for a man or woman to get a divorce if their spouse had Alzheimers, which kind of goes against the phrase &#8220;&#8217;til death do you part&#8221; in christian wedding ceremonies. <em>Compassionate<\/em> conservatism in action, folks! Well, who are we to question Power Pat. After all he talks to God on a daily basis just like Dubya and the Palinator and Michelle Bachmann and Rick Perry and&#8230; we&#8217;re sensing a trend here. For more comments from the hilarious Pat Robertson, click <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalhumor.about.com\/od\/funnyquotes\/a\/patrobertson.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a photo-toon from our June 19, 2006 issue, which came out not long after the then 76 year old claimed he could leg press 2000 lbs. The power of christ (and excessive bullshitting) compels ye!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_584\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-584\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=584\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-584\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-584\" title=\"powerpat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpat.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpat-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Televangelist Pat Robertson, who recently claimed to leg press 2,000 pounds, hefts a ton of weights over his head. Robertson earlier in the day had defeated the Miami Heat and the Carolina Hurricanes singlehandedly.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Robertson recently made the news by making yet another controversial statement. Big surprise, right? This time Mr. 700 stated that he thought it might be okay for a man or woman to get a divorce if their spouse had Alzheimers, which kind of goes against the phrase &#8220;&#8217;til death do you part&#8221; in christian &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=583\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Holy Huckster Pat Man!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,68,3],"tags":[197,69,70,195,98,101,196],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}