{"id":8690,"date":"2023-06-15T15:27:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T22:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8690"},"modified":"2023-06-16T15:41:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T22:41:12","slug":"rewind-pat-rudy-time-warpin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8690","title":{"rendered":"Rewind: Pat &#038; Rudy Time Warpin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the BilgeBucket Gazette. Our first issue was on May 19, 2003 and we\u2019ve been shoveling it to the public, just like the corporate media, ever since. We changed our format to a WordPress blog in 2011 so all of our earlier material was archived. We\u2019ve been reposting many of those archived articles, headlines, photo-toons, BilgeBucket Lists and other content over the past twelve years. In honor of our 20th, and because we\u2019re sick of the current state of affairs in the world, we\u2019ll be reposting more items from 2003 through 2009 throughout this year.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pat Robertson, the uber-evangelical preacher who, together with fellow holy huckster Jerry Falwell, blew hot air into the christian nationalism movement that is threatening to turn our democracy into a theocracy, died last week. We had <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"a very poignant salute to Falwell when he died in 2007 (and repost in 2015) (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3986\" target=\"_blank\">a very poignant salute to Falwell when he died in 2007 (and repost in 2015)<\/a> listing all his greatest hates so just visit that page and you&#8217;ll be up to date on Robertson&#8217;s dubious record. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"We've also had a photo-toon featuring Robertson and his exceptional ability to exaggerate (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=583\" target=\"_blank\">We&#8217;ve also had a photo-toon featuring Robertson and his exceptional ability to exaggerate<\/a>, but then that&#8217;s what you should expect from an evangelical con-man. But we found another photo-toon from our <strong>November 29, 2007<\/strong> issue of Robertson endorsing Rudy Giuliani for President in 2008, presumably for his role in helping New York heal after 9\/11. We had <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"an article covering that election (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=470\" target=\"_blank\">an article covering that election<\/a>. But this photo-toon features Robertson with Giuliani dressed in drag ala <em>Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/em>. In case you&#8217;ve forgotten, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Giuliani dressed in drag on more than a few occasions (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/states\/new-york\/city-hall\/story\/2013\/05\/joe-lhota-wont-ever-wear-a-dress-like-rudy-giuliani-did-007846\" target=\"_blank\">Giuliani dressed in drag on more than a few occasions<\/a> including a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"strange one with megalomaniac man-child Donald Trump (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Guve7Y856kY\" target=\"_blank\">strange one with megalomaniac man-child Donald Trump<\/a>. We wonder what ultra-conservative, christian, anti-LGBTQ MAGA Morons and QAnon nutbags would say if they saw this video of Trump motorboating Rudy&#8217;s fake boobies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"339\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rudygiuliantpatrobertsonhorrorshow.jpg\" alt=\"Ultra-conservative televangelist Pat Robertson endorsed Rudy Giuliani for President in 2008 even though Giuliani had supported abortion and gay rights, two issues which Robertson is vehemently against, and had dressed in drag on several occasions.\" class=\"wp-image-8693\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rudygiuliantpatrobertsonhorrorshow.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rudygiuliantpatrobertsonhorrorshow-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Ultra-conservative televangelist Pat Robertson endorsed Rudy Giuliani for President in 2008 even though Giuliani had supported abortion and gay rights, two issues which Robertson is vehemently against, and had dressed in drag on several occasions.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the BilgeBucket Gazette. Our first issue was on May 19, 2003 and we\u2019ve been shoveling it to the public, just like the corporate media, ever since. We changed our format to a WordPress blog in 2011 so all of our earlier material was archived. We\u2019ve been reposting many of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8690\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rewind: Pat &#038; Rudy Time Warpin&#8217;&#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":[61,8,68,3,35],"tags":[145,127,2103,2454,147,1080,156,2143,2144,98,235,146,2250,450,101,2332,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8690"}],"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=8690"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8701,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8690\/revisions\/8701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}