Pat Robertson, Lying, Unethical Shitbird

And the hits just keep on coming.

I hear this week that Pat Robertson has been marketing a thing called "Pat's Diet Shake." (Read more and more and more at http://www.patrobertson.com/shakeDietTips.asp, the bastard.) Seems he's been working this product for some time, and selling it on his TV shows and through his TV and other communications entities, all for non-profit, of course. So now he's taken the product commercial in his own name, making personal profit on the product for which he built the consumer base using not-for-profit, religiously oriented, tax-exempt entities.

Now I don't doubt that what he's done is legal; I'm sure Pat has a very well paid team of lawyers to keep him on the right side of the law. But on its face this is at the very least unethical, and at its worth it's lying and manipulative. He used his "flock," the gawping idiots who hang on his words and do what they're told to build up his consumer base for a product, likely intending all along to take it personally commercial once it hit critical mass. All this does is show the raw disdain he has for those to whom he purportedly ministers, those who follow him, and for whatever reason admire him. When will they wise up and see him for the duplicitous, deceptive, manipulative shitbird that he is?

And on the upside, I heard the other day that he called George Bush The Elder a "tool of Satan" a few years back. Now that's good stuff, right there, good stuff.