Jurassic televangelist Pat Robertson warned 700 Club viewers against traveling to Kenya for missionary work this week because “the towels could have AIDS.”
His false observation came in response to a viewer who wrote in during Thursday’s show, seeking advice on traveling to east Africa in light of the recent west African Ebola outbreak. The viewer claimed God had summoned them to Africa on a mission trip, but they were nervous about potentially contracting the disease.
Robertson laughed at the thought of contracting Ebola in west Africa, noting that there isn’t an Ebola outbreak in Kenya right now. For him, the risk of contracting AIDS in Kenya is much higher:
“You might get AIDS in Kenya, people have AIDS, you’ve got to be careful. I mean, the towels could have AIDS.”
This is, of course, false. You cannot a) “catch” AIDS or b) contract HIV by sharing toilets and linens.
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Not quite as crazy as his “gay men use skin-cutting rings to infect others with AIDS” theory from last August, but still false.
Trippy
A heaping plate of stupid from the King of stupid. Why is this man still given access to the airways?
QJ201
How does this man get away with this crap.
What he is saying is NOT based in religious teaching, so why aren’t scientists going after him and publicly condemning him? or the media? (cough, cough, cough).
The LGBT blogs are paying attention, but no one else is.
Paco
Oh, it must be that time of year when they let ol’ wackadoodle Pat out of his dark hole to grace the world with a new inane and baseless comment.
madc090
Why is that we must live with this creature and not Joan Rivers??? Is this God’s way of punishing us?
dvlaries
Sounds like, if South Park wants to revive the character, Robertson just wrote them a Towelie episode.
GritsRgr8
What’s really sad is that there are people who actually listen to this guy daily and actually BELIEVE everything he says!!!
Aranos
Eeer… where shall I start? I’m neither a english native speaker nor a medic, but even I know that:
1) A towel cannot have AIDS since it is an inert object.
2) The Virus is called HIV, not AIDS.
3) You cannot get infected with HIV by using a towel.
Sooo, dear Mr. Pat… what was his name, again? Whatever, just shut up and go get a brain.
Horse Lips
Why is this waste of space still alive? He needs to die to make room for something more productive.
mcflyer54
No fool like an old fool and old Robertson is one of the oldest. This old man might never die, he’ll just continue spreading his stupidity for eternity because God doesn’t want him and the a Devil doesn’t want the competition.
Trippy
Maybe someone should send him a Kenyan bath towel.
1EqualityUSA
Let’s give him a one way ticket to Sierra Leone.
TheNewEnergyDude
@QJ201: Well, I’d like to think that no one else is paying attention to what he has to say because most people don’t care what he has to say. Probably the only people that tune in are the dinosaurs like him who are not going to be on this planet much longer.
And sorry, people that feel they have to go to another country because a false being in a sky said so…yeah, you’re credibility is pretty much shot to hell.
lykeitiz
And towels, who are of higher intelligence, believe that you can get AIDS from Pat Robertson.
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my opinion is completely objective considering my situation and I request why aren’t wealthy gay members even gay billionaires as there are some like charles butt instead of wasting money on boorish things, why not destroy these imbeciles at their own game, put this imbeciles in public mainstream for his stupid commits & nail him to the wall with science until the public concedes to just how stupid these religious imbeciles are & the hate ridden agenda & ignorance they spread like a disease on weak minded imbeciles is so distributed that concession, recant, & removal of the imbeciles is required?
michaelj72
ah, Pat.
Pat. Pat. Pat. what can we say to a man like you who refuses to step out of the dark…..ages….and come into the light.
“Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.” – Aristophanes, 448-380 BC. As true today, Pat, as it was 2400 years ago…
gaym50ish
Sometimes Robertson’s revelations from God backfire on him. In 1988 he blamed Walt Disney World’s “gay days” for the advancing Hurricane Bonnie. But the hurricane completely missed Florida and slammed his own “700 Club” headquarters in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
He also said Hurricane Katrina was God’s punishment for gay decadence. So you have to wonder why God spared the gayest neighborhood in New Orleans.
His pronouncements get sillier all the time. Remember the one last year claiming that gays with AIDS wear rings that cut and infect you when you shake hands with them?
kernowcraig
The media doesn’t give editorials to every guys that walks around with a “The end is nigh” signs waving above their heads. We’d look at them with a little pity and accept that they probably have some issues mentally. We need to treat this guys the same way. Just walk on by people, nothing to see here 🙂
Bauhaus
Pat, we already know you are a deeply tormented closet case. So tormented, just fantasizing about gay sex will transmit HIV to you. No touching, no towels, no secret AIDS rings, needed.
The mere thought of man on man action is enough.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Why can’t this talking skeleton be funny like Geoffry on Craig Ferguson’s show??
@madc090: Very sad ironic but true comment…..
cchou444
no one cares about the 700 club or these out dated humans…….. the reality is they have lived way too long and always seem to hope the world ends with their last breath, which is way beyond self centered and crazy
Queertyreader2
I wonder if anyone has told Mr. Pat Robertson that you can also get HIV from watching the 700 Club?! LOL
tsginamarieva
You people don’t know what you’re talking about!! If it’s a gay towel that’s had unprotected sex with other male towels (you know, it didn’t use a wash cloth or something), it could be lousy with towel AIDS. I have a friend who sat in an infected BarcaLounger and got upholstery Ebola! His whole rear end parts fell right off! The poor man can’t wear pants now! (To be fair, though, he is a great conversation starter at parties.)
You all should listen to Reverend Robertson! He forgotten more about infectious linen to you’ll ever know!
tsginamarieva
You people don’t know what you’re talking about!! If it’s a gay towel that’s had unprotected sex with other male towels (you know, it didn’t use a wash cloth or something), it could be lousy with towel AIDS. I have a friend who sat in an infected BarcaLounger and got upholstery Ebola! His whole rear end parts fell right off! The poor man can’t wear pants now! (To be fair, though, he is a great conversation starter at parties.)
You all should listen to Reverend Robertson! He forgotten more about infectious linen than you’ll ever know!