Word: patly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kalb exemplifies the laid-back, more intellectual approach, the more provocative method can be found in David Frost's program "The Next President." Frost, who also interviewed a dozen would-be presidents in hour-long installments, made every effort to catch his guests off guard. Frost asked the Rev. Pat Robertson to explain what it was like to speak in tongues, and relentlessly questioned Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.) about contradictions in his views on abortion...
...candidate who seems to have gone thefarthest through the use of money and media--theRev. Pat Robertson--receives little praise fromKalb. "Since New Hampshire, Robertson hasconducted one of the most painful and patheticpolitical campaigns that I've seen in a longtime," says Kalb, citing Robertson's accusationsagainst the Bush campaign among other issues."This man has demonstrated a capacity forpolitical suicide that surprises me because [he]was one of the most effective performers [on`Candidates...
...rollicking rendition of Rocky Top as Al Gore mounted the platform. "I've been on the side of the average workingman and -woman," he drawled earnestly. "I've been on the side of the small farmers." Standing in front of a monument to Confederate heroes in South Carolina, Pat Robertson reminded his audiences that "I went to school where Robert E. Lee was president." In heavily Hispanic Corpus Christi and San Antonio, Michael Dukakis appeared in TV commercials, speaking fluent Spanish...
...Glory on New Garden Road in Greensboro. "I believe in what Robertson stands for," says Latham. "I have his tape right here. I listen to it in the car." At Frank Roberts' barbershop on Main Street in High Point, however, the former preacher is hardly taken seriously. "Pat Robertson?" says Roberts. "We never hear the name." According to Roberts, the G.O.P. race is between Dole and Bush. "Dole's biggest asset is Liddy," say the barber. "She is absolutely better than he is. She ought to run." Some of the customers like Gore for his electability. But Barber Harvey Speaks...
...Jerry Falwell only to turn against him and charge that the Virginia Fundamentalist had duped him in order to grab his empire. PTL filed for bankruptcy. Falwell escaped from the mess last October, calling it the "Watergate of evangelical Christianity." But even as Falwell abandoned politics a month later, Pat ; Robertson jumped in, leaving his Christian Broadcasting Network to get along without his strong presence. Left personally unscathed in all the turmoil were more churchly TV preachers such as Billy Graham and Robert Schuller...