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Pat Robertson once claimed in the 1988 presidential campaign that god told him to run for president.
Failing that, he started an ultra-right-wing christian political action committee and lobby group called the Christian Coalition headed by Robertson protegé Ralph Reed, Reed headed the organization throughout most of the 1990's until yielding the post to be one of George W. Bush's chief campaign advisors. Pat Robertson gave a venue for leader of the so-called "Moral Majority," Jerry Falwell in the wake of the 9/11 attacks to get on television and say that "Homosexuals, Abortionists," and all of the other accoutrements of our secular society were to blame for the attacks. Robertson made some attempt to distance himself from the controversy that ensued from the remarks, which he agreed with when Falwell was making them, but somehow kept it quiet that one of his business enterprises, a gold mining operation, does/did a lot of business and exchanged a lot of money with the Liberian government in the form of Charles Taylor whose government was known by US intel sources as having sheltered large numbers of al Qaeda operatives during a period where they were being hunted in throughout Africa.
The 700 Club seems to belong to the apocalyptic school of thought whose political doctrine seems to be that if we fuck around enough in middle eastern affairs, we can trigger the biblical end_of_the_world. Hence, similarly apocalyptic evangelicals such as the president have no qualms about supporting Israel even in the wake of the Sharon government's irresponsible and frequently atrocious handling of the Palestinian people, human rights abuses and all.
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