Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5a!hou5d!hogpc!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!we13!ihnp4!cbosgd!mhuxi!mhuxa!mhb5b!princeton!levy From: levy@princeton.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: CBN and Fair Play Message-ID: <210@princeto.UUCP> Date: Mon, 27-Jun-83 19:37:05 EDT Article-I.D.: princeto.210 Posted: Mon Jun 27 19:37:05 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 30-Jun-83 10:56:39 EDT Lines: 24 I would advise people who want to know about CBN and Pat Robertson to watch them a few times instead of expanding on what has been said over the net once (and not very accurately, either). I don't watch CBN myself, because I find them boringly predictable, and some of their rhetoric is exagerate; however I think the picture that has been transmitted in some of the articles is very biased (they hate Unitarians, they blame liberals for the evils of the world, they are comparable to Hitler's Germany). Just think of all that has been said about right-wing "conspiracies" involving Reagan, the Moral M., conservative senators and congressmen etc. I have a copy of a "Reagan 1982 calendar" with the inevitable caricatures and a month-by-month plan to take over the whole structure of government in the U.S., culminating (in December 1982!) with the rewriting of the Constitution. If that's not shouting "fire" in a packed auditorium, I don't know what is... (Just to set the record straight, I'm not a Reaganist, I think his external policy is lousy, that he is by and large insensitive to the poor and minorities, and that the only things in his platform I agreed with, like fighting abortion, are being totally neglected. A 3 out of 10 for him.) Finally, if you *really* think CBN is offending federal legislation in spreading panic and lies, you should sue them. You have a right and a duty to do so, either individually or corporately. For fair play in both sides, -- Silvio Levy