Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Bee-otch of the Day: Pat Robertson

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Name: Pat Robertson
Age: 91
Occupation: former televangelist
Last Seen: Virginia Beach, VA
Bee-otched For: being on the air for too long
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End of an era? More like end of an error.

After 55 years, 91-year-old Pat Robertson has retired as the main host of the daily hour-long preach-fest The 700 Club. He made the official announcement on the 60th anniversary of the founding of his non-profit, the Christian Broadcasting Network.

Robertson's son Gordon is now co-hosting the show with Miss America 1973, Terry Meeusen.

The roots of the program go back to 1961 when Robertson, the son of a wealthy Senator purchased a silent TV station in Virginia. The station was rebranded as WYAH, for Yahweh, the Hebrew name for God. Since the station was at channel 27 during a time when most TV sets didn't go up past channel 13, WYAH had trouble staying on the air. So in 1966, Robertson told his audience that if 700 people could chip in $10 per month, it would keep the station afloat. He got his wish, and soon, Pat was building and buying stations in Boston, Atlanta and Dallas.

However in 1977, Robertson started up what would be his bread and butter: the CBN Channel. Years later, it would become The Family Channel. Robertson sold off his TV stations to help finance his cable network. Also in 1977, Robertson started CBN University which became Regent University in 1990.

However, Robertson got wealthy thanks to a barely legal deal with John Malone, the wealthy cable TV magnate who damn near killed the career of Guns 'N Roses. Not only that, he owns the Atlanta Braves, which is why I'm rooting for the Houston Astros to win the World Series. Anyway, they created International Family Entertainment, whose assets included The Family Channel, the Ice Capades and MTM Enterprises. Yes, dare I say it, Pat Robertson once owned The Mary Tyler Moore Show

In 1998, Robertson sold IFE to News Corporation for $1.5 billion. The deal included The Family Channel, which became Fox Family. After only three years, Fox sold it to Disney for $2.9 billion, including $2.3 billion in debt. The channel was rebranded as ABC Family and was rebranded again as Freeform in 2016. The channel is aimed at young adults 14-34. However, it's not their focus 24 hours per day because of an edict Robertson whipped up when he sold The Family Channel in 1998. 

That stipulation? No matter what name it is, that channel formerly CBN MUST air The 700 Club and other CBN-produced programs against their will. When Freeform was forced to air one of Patty's beg-a-thons several years ago, they posted on Facebook that they wished they'd looked at the contract before signing it. The network airs humorous bumpers before and after the show with phrases like "Freeform is not responsible for what's about to appear on your screen. We're very sorry anyway" and "Soooo, that happened. Welcome back to Freeform" afterward.

The sad truth is that The 700 Club doesn't just air on Freeform, but many TV stations around the globe. Here in Michigan, two secular TV stations - northern Michigan Fox outlet WFQX and Detroit's WMYD - air the show. Up north, WGTU ABC 29 & 8 once aired it until about 15 years ago. As a matter of fact, one former owner of WGTU was Tim Robertson, Pat's son. For years, the Traverse City ABC affiliate was forced to pre-empt everything from NBA games to golf to air the yearly 700 Club begathon every January. While packing boxes, I found an old newspaper article from the Traverse City Record-Eagle where a reporter talked to a manager at WGTU about them pre-empting a golf tournament for a 700 Club begathon. His response was that they had a tough contract with Robertson and there would be major consequences if they went with the rest of the ABC network and aired golf instead. Since northern Michigan is a haven for golfers, many complained to both the Record-Eagle and the station in disgust.

WGTU started airing The 700 Club in 1988, replacing another fraudulent religious gabfest: The PTL Club, which the station started airing in the 1970s. When the Bakkers were embroiled in scandal, the station flipped to The 700 Club, especially since Robertson was running for president at the time. Over the years, Robertson's practices have come into question, especially the fact that his - and other religious shows - rely on preaching the prosperity gospel. His show is noted for its stories of people who felt godless until they gave their last penny to CBN, then BOOM! They're wealthy beyond their wildest dreams. 

Folks, I once knew a family that lived in a shitty trailer on a backwoods dirt road in rural northern Michigan. Their property was an eyesore because they had another trailer in their backyard with its roof caved in. One reason I couldn't stand them was because they were Pentecostal and went to a shitty little church loaded with poor, white trash tongue talkers. And guess what I saw on their kitchen table one day? An envelope from The 700 Club. You know, if they were smart (which they weren't, especially since the man of the house couldn't drive due to having too many DUIs), they would have set that money they were giving to Pat aside and use it to clean up their property and buy a real house!! DUH!

Sadly, white trash make up a giant bulk of Robertson's audience. I have an uncle who also lives in a trailer and wastes his life watching crooked televangelists. One time, he gave me a cheap-ass statue of Jesus that he got from giving $25 to TBN. I tried to tell him about TBN and their scandals, everything from the fact that one male employee was fired for not having sex with founder Paul Crouch and that Crouch paid him $400,000 after he threatened to sue. Or the fact that the Crouches lived in luxurious mansions, flew in $60 million jets and even had a house for their dogs. Or even the worst of all, the Crouches refused to have the asshole who raped their 13-year-old granddaughter charged because they didn't want to sit in a courtroom. After Paul and Jan Crouch died several years ago, a court ordered TBN to pay the granddaughter, Carra Crouch $2 million. 

It's no secret that the world is LOADED with stupid people and televangelists love to brainwash them for a few dollars. It's the oldest trick in the book: spew out Bible verses and watch the money roll in. It's always the sign of a feeble mind: give money to a televangelist who thinks that Jebus will bless you if you give more and more. 

For more than six decades, that was Pat Robertson. He was a monster who preyed on the meek by claiming that if you're not white, straight or male, you're going to hell. Years ago during a break on Larry King Live, he referred to gays as "homos". He made a bullshit claim on his show that those with HIV in San Francisco spread the disease by wearing a special needle on their fingers to shake hands with one another. Just after 9/11, he and fellow bullshitter Jerry Falwell decided to be insensitive and blamed the attacks on everybody from the LGBTQ community, feminists, liberals and so on.

Of course, we can go on and on. Simply put, Pat Robertson won't be missed, and The 700 Club will keep going on to entertain the morons who actually watch that garbage and think that it's gospel. At the end of the day, I highly doubt that because one gives up their fortune - big or small - to CBN that they'll get into heaven quickly. Honestly, there's atheists who are better humans than Pat. It's too bad he's still alive, $100 million fortune, diamond mines and all.

As one once put it, "COME ON, GRIM REAPER!"


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Thursday, October 7, 2021

Bee-otch of the Day: Greg Abbott

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Name: Greg Abbott
Age: 63
Occupation: governor
Last Seen: Austin
Bee-otched For: being owned by a judge
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Ann Richards, if only you were still with us.

Recently, the state of Texas passed one of the strongest anti-abortion laws in America. Once a fetus has a heartbeat detected, it can not be aborted in the Lone Star State.

Even worse, the ultra-right-leaning Supreme Court allowed Texas to follow through with their absurd law, which bans abortions after six weeks. For most women, it means that the second she learns she's pregnant, she's fucked. 

Many groups have obviously put Texas, Abbott and the Supreme Court on blast, especially President Biden, who called the state's decision an "unprecedented assault on a woman’s constitutional rights". 

Of course, we live in a society where the right refutes science and when they get elected, we all pay the price. Because of this, we have the highest COVID-19 rate in the world and morons who think that livestock vaccine is a cure-all. Now, thanks to assholes like Greg Abbott, the world will be loaded with more unwanted, unplanned children who all will have a lousy life.

To be quite honest, I have more love for women who abort their mistakes than give birth to them. One of the most tragic problems on this Earth are the amount of women who date total losers. They don't practice birth control and their boyfriends don't wear condoms. Yep! They end up giving the world another unwanted loser who at the end of the day ends up being raised by others.

Case in point: my cousin's half-sister. In the late 80s, my uncle knocked up a young woman and she gave birth to a son. As a matter of fact, we didn't even know of his existence until he was six months old. Now, my uncle has always been kind of a jerk. He drinks heavily, has never had a steady job and relies on others - including me one time - financially. Well, she ended up hooking up with another man. However, he was WORSE than my uncle. He was pure white trash and tried to kill my cousin's mother. Even worse, she had a kid with this asshole. Because he was the sole cousin of mine who lived near me, I had to endure him and his half-sister throughout my teens. Granted, I was never a little kid person, especially as a teen. Thankfully, my cousin grew up and is doing quite well. 

However, his half-sister is a completely different story. 

I met her again for the first time in years some time ago and though she seemed nice, her Facebook page was a different story. She posted that she wished someone would assassinate President Obama. REALLY?!? Granted, her father was an asshole, but shit like this only makes her just as bad. It only made me want to kick her ass hard as a little girl for being an annoying little shit. 

Of course, the right will also cry that adoption is a great alternative to abortion. OK, so how many children are rotting away in orphanages and foster care? How about those who were raised by the system and then kicked out at 18? Some are lucky, some aren't. Hell, I grew up with an adopted boy who was a total asshole. He had the unfortunate honor of being the first person in my graduating class to have passed away. And guess where he died? In jail for stealing a gun. And guess how he died? The jail gave him the wrong medication for his mental problems. 

You see, the world is LOADED with too many unwanted humans and their mothers are to blame for getting knocked up by losers. Being the son of a divorced father, he not only made me babysit my cousin and his murderous half-sister, but he made me babysit the children of a bitch who burned down her boyfriend's home years later. 

Oh, and one of her babydaddys was a douchebag DJ from WKLT. Go figure. 

Granted, there are successful children of single mothers, like the aforementioned Obama and adoptees like former President Clinton. Funny I mention Clinton because it was his wife Hillary who wrote "It Takes A Village to Raise A Child". Well, it depends on the situation. If your little punk harasses me and you do nothing about it, I might do something to it that you might not like. The world needs good parents and not assholes like the parents of little Caleb from that King of the Hill episode. 

The good news is that people are telling Abbott and his fellow pro-lifers to shut up. A judge just ruled that the law is unconstitutional. Texas judge Robert Pittman - an Obama appointee - made the ruling. 

Folks, this is what Repukes want: TO RULE WOMEN. Pregnant? Sucks to be you. God forced that loser to put his cock in you because you're a slut. This is why I'm so proud that my governor is a Democratic woman. The earth doesn't need more kids who don't deserve to be born. But since Repukes don't listen to science and people in Texas are dumbasses, we get Greg Abbott. 

Will someone please kidnap him and toss him into the woods?

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Tuesday, October 5, 2021

9.14.21 Bee-otches of the Day: non-vaxxers

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Names: various
Ages: various
Occupations: various
Last Seen: everywhere
Bee-otched For: ignoring the facts about COVID-19
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Welcome to America, where we can't have nice things because of stupid people. 

We can't have single-payer universal healthcare because of the lie that it will raise taxes for everyone. In fact, countries that have it have lower healthcare costs than we do.

There's long lines at fast food restaurants because even though they rake in billions of dollars yearly, they don't pay their employees a living wage. Nobody wants to work there, so some have resorted to hiring 14-year-olds.

Now, it's the pure heartbreak that we are all afraid of: the pandemic ain't over. Over the summer, the delta variant reared its ugly spikes and infected many more people worldwide, especially those who think that the vaccines are all bunk.

Currently, 25% of all Americans have not had at least one shot of COVID-19 vaccine. Hospitals are crammed with COVID patients again and some people are now missing out on critical life-saving surgeries because ICUs are loaded with morons who are too fucking dumb to get their free shot.

Yes, these retards' definition of "following the science" involves listening to some ultra-right-leaning talk prick who ends up getting COVID-19 themselves or some conspiracy theory site. It's pathetic that Julian Assange is now hiding in another country for telling the truth and yet, we have these dopes in tinfoil hats bitch about unproven lies on Facebook. 

Of course, Facebook went down on October 4th for six hours and some thought that the world was coming to an end. It didn't end. True, Facebook is fun for many, but it's a source of misinformation for those who think that the sky is falling.

It used to be that we had a fair and balanced media. Of course, that ended when Reagan eliminated the Fairness Doctrine in 1987 and Clinton made things worse with the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Yes, you can't say fuck on the radio and Kacey Musgraves couldn't move her guitar on SNL. But, some redneck asshole can get behind the mic and utter lies about vaccines. 

Look, we got rid of it all: polio, whooping cough, chicken pox, you name it. Why? Vaccines. However, some yokel decades ago started crying that vaccines actually kill. And because of this misinformation, we have those who listen to Dr. Jenny McCarthy vs. real doctors who know what the hell they're doing.

Funny story: last Summer, my cousin and I were at a concert when we started talking about a convo he had with another one of my cousins. She's anti-vaxx and sourced some weirdo bitch. Well, my cousin googled this bitch's name and it turns out that she was arrested at the insurrection! 

Even worse, this cousin of mine is one of those "Jesus will protect me!" types. Well, guess what? I fondly remember a woman who had cancer and died because she refused treatment. Instead, she was constantly giving money to fake televangelist Kenneth Copeland, who preaches against cancer treatment and even preached to unvaccinated and unmasked crowds. Tragically, people need to know that fake prophets like Copeland are DANGEROUS and using Jesus to take money from people is the most-inhumane thing possible.

Folks, we gotta stop the madness. COVID-19 is DEADLY and people need to take their damn vaccine, period. Knock it off with the lies. COVID-19 is REAL and already, I personally knew someone who died from the disease. 

People, please, stop the insanity (whatever happened to Susan Powter, anyway?)!


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