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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
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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