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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
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Subject: Re: Chicago Tribune/ Can Pat Robertson overcome the "Wacko Factor"?
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Date: Sun, 21-Sep-86 20:44:09 EDT
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What worries me about Robertson is the incredibly shallow nature of TV
election coverage.  A candidate's stands on the issues can't be fairly
squeezed into fifteen seconds, and so they are almost always omitted
altogether.  All we get to hear is how much of what demographic block a
particular candidate is currently supported by.
 
So far, I have yet to hear any coverage of Robertson's explicitly theocratic
statements, which I have frequently heard on the 700 Club, or any coverage
of his position that the end of the world is immanent, greatly to be
desired, and intimately tied up with American activity in the Middle East.
Nor his open advocacy of censorship and of laws against occult religions.
Nor of his acceptance of the idea that non-Christians are mentally ill.
 
I believe that the American people, as stupid as we are, still would turn
against Robertson if more of us knew of his positions on these issues.  As
it is, if all we continue to hear about is faith healing, which most
Americans believe in, then we are in serious trouble.
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