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FOX: Falwell, from the grave, blames tornadoes on McCain

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Pat Robertson relays the message:
“God told Jerry and Jerry, God bless him, told me.”

PR Newswire, Feb. 7, 2008 -- Fox News Network is reporting that deceased televangelist Jerry Falwell, who helped verify responsibility for the 9/11 attack, has explained God’s reason for the record-breaking spawn of killer tornados that ravaged middle-American communities on Super Tuesday. At least 55 middle-Americans lost their lives.

Falwell’s longtime collaborator, televangelist and conservative political personality Pat Robertson, gave Fox News an exclusive interview Wednesday to relay Falwell’s insight.

“I heard about the storms and was deep in prayer for all those patriotic Christians,” Robertson told Fox investigative reporters. “And Jerry came to me and said, ‘God and I agree. The pagans, the abortionists, the feminists, the gays, the ACLU, People For the American Way, and McCain voters - all of them – God and I point our fingers in their face and say ‘you helped this happen,’” Robertson relayed.

“All I could say,” Robertson said, “was, ‘Amen, Jerry!' I totally concur. The problem is we might adopt that agenda at the highest levels of our government. And so we're responsible as a free society for what the top people do.”

The line of storms spanned five states in the mid-South, destroying businesses and homes of liberal and conservative voters alike. Asked to explain why the homes of good Christian Americans – the once-vaunted ‘values voters’ – were not spared, Robertson said Falwell said that God said, “’Let Me spell it out: M-C-C-A-I-N. I TOLD them all to get behind Huckabee!’”

Falwell, who in the 1970s organized a conservative religious political force he called “The Moral Majority” into faithful supporters of Ronald Reagan and the Wall Street faction of the Republican Party, died in May 2007. Robertson, who presides over that now-bitterly divided GOP base of Fox News fans, Rush Limbaugh “dittoheads” and Wall Street Journal readers, is not quite dead yet.

Despite the violent storms, record numbers of voters turned out for primaries and caucuses in Super Tuesday states across the nation. Asked why 75 percent more Democratic voters turned out that day than good patriotic, Christian Americans, Robertson declined to speculate. But he did say that the bursting real estate bubble and a looming recession had led God to cut His budget for push polling this year.

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Partial transcript of comments from the September 13, 2001 telecast of Pat Robertson's program, "The 700 Club":

JERRY FALWELL: And I agree totally with you that the Lord has protected us so wonderfully these 225 years. And since 1812, this is the first time that we've been attacked on our soil and by far the worst results. And I fear, as Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defense, said yesterday, that this is only the beginning. And with biological warfare available to these monsters -- the Husseins, the Bin Ladens, the Arafats -- what we saw on Tuesday, as terrible as it is, could be miniscule if, in fact -- if, in fact -- God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.

PAT ROBERTSON: Jerry, that's my feeling. I think we've just seen the antechamber to terror. We haven't even begun to see what they can do to the major population.

JERRY FALWELL: The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this.

PAT ROBERTSON: Well yes.

JERRY FALWELL: And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America -- I point the finger in their face and say "you helped this happen."

PAT ROBERTSON: Well, I totally concur, and the problem is we have adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government. And so we're responsible as a free society for what the top people do. And, the top people, of course, is the court system...

JERRY FALWELL: Pat, did you notice yesterday the ACLU and all the Christ-haters, People For the American Way, NOW, etc. were totally disregarded by the Democrats and the Republicans in both houses of Congress as they went out on the steps and called out on to God in prayer and sang "God Bless America" and said "let the ACLU be hanged". In other words, when the nation is on its knees, the only normal and natural and spiritual thing to do is what we ought to be doing all the time - calling upon God.

PAT ROBERTSON: Amen.


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